Word: comical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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OBAMA stars in Spider-Man comic...
...Harvey Korman, 81, the brilliant supporting clown for Carol Burnett and Mel Brooks; Dick Martin, 86, the actor and director who, with his comedy partner Dan Rowan, co-hosted the Vietnam-era gigglefest Laugh-In; and Will Elder, 86, one of the artists who elevated Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book to the level of sublime satire. He later collaborated with Kurtzman on the lavish Little Annie Fannie comic strip for Playboy...
...wildly, needlessly complicated. The bedtime stories themselves (others are in the Western, Roman-epic and Star Wars genres) display some glimmers of comic imagination. But if Shankman was aiming for The Princess Bride's mix of fantasy, facetiousness and romance, or even the meta-fable sprawl of Stardust, he missed it by a mile. Magic eludes the entire enterprise. Sure, there's potential in the kids-as-sorcerers plot, and game energy in the pan-Anglo cast. (Palmer, from Australia, is a standout as the Paris Hiltonish vixen, much more charming than the original.) And yet the movie doesn...
...eBay tradition whereby colleagues name your conference room after a cartoon character. "It's because I tend to have a smile on my face, but I'm maybe a little more devilish and firmer than people realize," he says, looking very much like a grownup version of the impish comic-strip kid. "You can have a smile and be quite firm--it's tough love with a little bit of humor built...
...even threatened to revoke millions in funding for a Chicago children's hospital if its CEO did not pay his campaign a $50,000 tribute. The full buffet of alleged graft was laid out in a 76-page federal complaint that described the sort of corruption superheroes battle in comic books...