Word: comicalities
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...turns out that just as some countries have a different attitude toward Jerry Lewis, other countries have a different attitude toward using TV to raise money. In Britain, Red Nose Day, an evening of comic TV that is also a fund raiser, is a ratings winner that garnered $128 million in 2005. Dreamed up by screenwriter (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director (Love Actually) Richard Curtis in 1988, it was an idea Fuller had been trying, not very successfully, to sell to network heads here. "Then I thought, actually, I control the biggest show in America," he says...
...soap opera—still ongoing—might be comic were it not so gruesome. Name any modern plague and this grim tale has it: drug abuse, squalid greed, extended legal charades, shameless self-promotion, and phony, saccharine sentimentality. Feminists might decry Smith’s complete objectification, priests her unforgivable promiscuity, socialists her avarice—the task is simple: Grab a piece of the story and hold tight...
...here appear for the first time in English). It was chosen as one of the 50 most important works in Hebrew by the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, and is on the Israeli high school syllabus. Keret now pens caustic satirical sketches for Israeli TV, has published a series of comic books and won Israel's equivalent of a Best Picture Oscar for Skin Deep, a movie he co-directed. He also dabbles in punditry: last summer, he wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times that suggested the Israeli public found last summer's war against Lebanon comforting...
...hard to find a Hutton equivalent among her contemporaries, let alone now. Danny Kaye poured comic pizzazz into his tongue-twisting tunes, but had a hard time with ballads. Martha Raye did a lot of broad comedy, but without Betty's fresh-scrubbed glamour. Doris Day was another band-singer blond gone Hollywood, but with a more conventional softness. Only Betty had the whole package. She was vivacious, pretty, a Nobel-dynamite-winning thrush, an appealing actress who excelled in comedy and, if a director could just tamp down her pile-driving instincts, drama. TIME, searching for the portmanteau...
...shreds in her interestingly destructive style." The Perils of Pauline: She "has a capacity for pathos which is rather crudely exploited in this film, and a capacity for comedy which is exploited just as crudely, but oftener and more successfully." In Red, Hot and Blue, Hutton, "given a few comic situations and lively rhythms, appears to be a fissionable element exploding into energy and noise.... At her noisiest in her songs, she has the force of a pneumatic drill and the range of a fire siren...