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...have Leontyne Price to sing a/ Medley from 'Der Meistersinger'") was not Berlin's style - to Sondheim's caviar, his lyrics were Spam - but in "Annie Get Your Gun" he did a triple rhyme ("You can't shoot a male in the tail like a quail") whose comic force quickly escalates musically and in the singer's volume. And he could pay cheeky tribute to friend Kaufman's failed play "The Deep Tangled Wildwood" in a complex rhyme for the song "Lazy": "I want to peep/ Through the deep/ Tangled wildwood,/ Counting sheep/ 'Til I sleep/ Like a child would...
...weekly Web column TIME.comix TIME.com's Andrew Arnold has been chronicling the increasingly complex and evolving world of comic-book literature. This week, as a companion to TIME magazine's "Best and Worst of 2001" feature, Arnold presents his Top 10 comic books of 2001. No. 1: James Sturm's The Golem's Mighty Swing. Find the complete list, along with the best in books, music, movies, sport, advertising and more, at time.com/bestworst2001...
...DAVID LETTERMAN'S POST-SEPT. 11 RETURN Irony was dead, they said. Humor was unseemly. And late-night comics, those unacknowledged legislators of America, no longer had anything to say to us. Yet it took a late-night comic to voice, movingly and indelibly, how we felt. "We're told [the terrorists] were zealots fueled by religious fervor," said the subdued but resilient host. "If you live to be a thousand years old, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddam sense?" And just as important, he--and his counterparts at The Daily Show, South Park...
...BERNIE MAC SHOW (FOX) On network TV, it turns out, you still cannot say motherf_____. In every other respect, however, this fresh sitcom stays true to the foul-mouthed Original King of Comedy's riotous stand-up voice. Playing a comic (surprise, surprise) who takes in his sister's troubled kids, the gruff, unsentimental but likable Mac takes the cuddly out of family comedy...
...LENO Bob Hope couldn't make it, so the man who wants to succeed him as America's Comic will entertain the troops during the holiday season. His wife Mavis has already been out front on Afghan women's rights...