Word: comicality
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...There were lots of differences, too. Lenny (first name only, please: it's no easier to refer to Lenny as "Bruce" than it is to call Woody "Allen") enjoyed nothing like Elvis' celebrity, though the prototype "sick comic" had a unique notoriety. His corrosive comedy routines, and the occasionally raw language he used to make his satirical points, landed him in the docket on obscenity charges in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. "Factually, the show is indecent," he acknowledged. "The areas that I discuss are not pleasant. However, I do think they have the freight of substance...
...Truck crashes kill over 5,000 people and injure over 100,000 annually. There is practically no enforcement of the regulations which limit the number of hours a trucker may be on the road. Currently, driving hours are recorded by the truckers themselves in paper logbooks. They call them 'comic books' because they are so easily forged. They keep one log for police and another for their company to get paid. Black boxes that record the number of hours a trucker has driven would greatly improve enforcement. Unlike the ones for cars, these black boxes for trucks operate continuously. Some...
...Marvel's future, though, is not trinkets but storytelling. Marvel's most iconic characters were created in the 1960s by comic-book legend Stan Lee, but 30 years on, the stories had become tired, and comic-book sales were miserable. So in 2002 Marvel began to hire writers and artists from outside the comic business, turning instead to TV and film writers and novelists. The results have reinvigorated the industry, says Gerry Gladston, a co-owner of New York City's Midtown Comics. "The stories have gotten better and better, fans are thrilled, and sales are climbing," he says. Marvel...
...Marvel must focus its energy on making its movies successful. That means getting its house in order and curtailing further executive turnover. As the Motley Fool's Tim Beyers noted, "There's simply no way the comic-book publisher will become a movie mogul with a mishmash organization." Even if it does have superhuman strength on its side...
...pray what is the cause of this remarkable hilarity? Ken Martin, 69, is fairly sure it's his dancing. The Mackay Choral Society is rehearsing Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Gondoliers, and "I can't dance," admits the retired transport-firm manager and future Duke of Plaza-Toro. The whole choir is laughing, "but it's me who's getting it right," he says. "The rest of them are wrong...