Word: comical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...friend-of-the-court essay written to advance my cause, director Kevin Smith argued that hockey has "Heroes! Villains! Costumes! Masks! Fights! It's a comic book come to life ... at any moment, someone might try to punch someone else in the face!" Oddly, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was less effusive. When I asked him to sell his sport, he pointed out, "The players all grow playoff beards. It's their commitment to the cause, the bond of the team." But Bettman did add that anyone who watches "Washington play Pittsburgh and sees Ovechkin play Crosby" will catch hockey fever...
...June 1, I start shooting the biggest movie of my career. It's called A Couple of Dicks and stars both comic genius Tracy Morgan and one of my longtime heterosexual crushes, the pride of Penn's Grove, N.J., himself: the Yippee-Kay-Yay-ster, Walter Bruce Willis...
...That's exciting to watch because it's passionate. You're watching the opposite of paycheck playing: that's playing with heart. And yet they're all the nicest and most polite/least in-trouble athletes of the sports community. • Heroes! Villains! Costumes! Masks! Fights! It's like a comic book come to life! • It's Canadian! Everything from Canada is good...
...When Davis says that "glorious old Hollywood" was in color, and "small comic England" in black and white, he's referring to the countries as well as the movies. After the war the U.S., the new top empire, rebounded into posterity; Britain, relinquishing India and its centuries of world rule, faced shortages of food, gasoline, all earthly essentials. The grinding deprivation of this grim landscape is superbly evoked by David Thomson, another movie-mad poet, in Try to Tell the Story, his new memoir of growing up in London around the same time as Davies in Liverpool. Davies shows...
...referred to people like Woody Allen and Ricky Gervais as comic influences. What is it about them? How would you characterize your particular comedy? I really like just super dry comedy. Obviously Ricky Gervais is the master of that, that's why I use that reference. Right now, that show Eastbound & Down by Jody Hill on HBO I think is genius. I like comedy that makes you cringe because it's uncomfortable, but at the same time you're laughing your ass off. (Read a Q&A with Eastbound & Down's Danny McBride...