Word: comicalities
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...Manhattan sex scandals good reading in a tabloidy, microfiche kind of way, but the exhibit can get awfully soporific, considering that it's about sex in New York City. There's a cover from a sixth edition of Margaret Sanger's Family Limitation and a display of Wonder Woman comic books under the rubric of lesbian pornography, which is particularly lame when you consider that someone could have gone to Times Square and got some better examples of girl-on-girl action. Curators can be so lazy...
...took place at the Harvard Film Archive. While fully acknowledging the existence of bad African-American cinema (he mentioned Booty Call with a cringe), Mitchell remains hopeful for the future. He even turned Booty Call into an interesting case study, illustrating star Jamie Fox’s progression from comic to serious actor, as he moved beyond the silly comedy to his criticlly-acclaimed turn as Muhammad Ali’s trainer in Michael Mann’s Ali. Mitchell also credited Fox with engaging Will Smith when the material of the film could...
...dress only to deliver perhaps the most painful soliloquy in stage history. The hilariously over-acted Horatio of Christian E. Lerch, and the dead-on deadpan delivery of Winnie by Jessica M. Gordon ’02-’03, highlighted the play’s comic effect...
Durang’s play is in many ways a bleak statement on the disappointments of life and the inability to communicate and introduces two homosexual characters to update William’s vision of the American family and society. Still this production focused more on slapstick comic delivery than an exploration of these more serious themes...
...fact, Theatre of the Durang didn’t offer a night of heady theater, nor did it hit on the more critical side of Durang in its execution. But in the end, the comic appeal was intact throughout, and the audience was able to catch a glimpse of the peculiarity and ingenuity that is Christopher Durang’s theatrical world...