Word: comicalities
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...have all these half-baked notions and somebody will say yes." By way of example Spiegelman spoke of a musical theater piece he's been working on with composer Phillip Johnston, called "Drawn to Death: A Three Panel Opera" about the rise and fall of the American comic...
...glory years (1946-57), Jones directed about 100 cartoons, seven-minute mini-masterpieces of character shading and comic subtlety. Along with scriptwriter Michael Maltese, he created the bon-vivant skunk Pepe Le Pew, the beep-beep Road Runner and his perennially flummoxed pursuer Wile E. Coyote. They devised brilliant one-offs such as One Froggy Evening, a lovely parable of exploitation (whose singing star, Michigan J. Frog, later became the character logo for the WB network), and the sublime Feed the Kitty, about a bulldog's desperate attempts to protect a kitten prone to domestic disaster. Put that on your...
...influence is measured in the intelligent pleasure given to a huge audience over more than a half-century, then Jones was the Einstein of modern comedy. After all, just one little letter separates the cosmic from the comic. And Chuck Jones' cartoons proved that those two words, those two worlds, could...
...evinces a heartfelt concern for social issues. But the first track, a cover of What a Wonderful World, makes up for the general dearth of originality by wedding Joey's affectless vocal style and kick-butt guitar arrangements with Tin Pan Alley poetry and tunefulness. It's proof his comic instinct and exuberance stuck with...
...Zhao leaped to fame at 21 when she was plucked, like the younger Zhang Ziyi, from Beijing's prestigious Film Academy. She has been busy ever since. Hong Kong's comic genius, Stephen Chow, cast her for a part in Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong's top-grossing film of all time. Corey Yuen's So Close is in the can. She's on screens now in Jeff Lau's Chinese Odyssey 2002, and has just finished working on Chinese director He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth. She might even appear in Wong Kar-wai's as yet unfinished...