Word: comicality
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...perilous. Lethem is no stranger to it. He won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Motherless Brooklyn, which is basically a hard-boiled mystery retrofitted with great writing and highfalutin themes. Most of the stories in Men and Cartoons play in the nerdier realms of comic books and science fiction--one revolves around a mysterious aerosol spray that reveals lost belongings and lost lovers; another recounts the sad, seedy later life of a retired comic-book hero named Super Goat Man. But while Chabon builds his book on the sturdy narrative architecture of the mystery novel, Lethem...
Last week countless hordes of U.S. children not only went to the movies once a week, listened to their radio favorites among 27 children's network programs (often reading comic books and blowing bubble gum at the same time), but spent millions of kiddie-hours squinting hypnotically at the 35 shows offered them on flickering television screens. The kiddies exhibited a leaping enthusiasm for the new and massive doses of entertainment offered by video. Overnight, almost every little boy and girl in the nation had become a cowboy; in those carefully metered periods which they spent outdoors between programs, they...
...Stand-up comics, of course, do one-person shows every night, in clubs and concert halls, so it's no surprise that they would eventually make an assault on Broadway. The bigger question is whether they belong there. Cantone, a New York City comic and actor perhaps best known for his recurring role as Charlotte's wedding planner in Sex and the City, is a talented, high-voltage performer with a bag of good impressions (Julia Child, Sammy Davis Jr.) and a bitchy, high-camp sensibility. But despite some second-act musings about his family, including his mother's death...
...show out of that old comedy-club staple of bantering with the audience. But the earnestly solicitous singsong with which Dame Edna delivers her well-practiced sucker punches ("I love the outfit you've chosen." Beat. "Is it reversible?") robs them of any meanness or condescension. Humphries is one comic who has also done the work of a playwright: he has created a character who totally envelops us in his--her--world. Go in skeptical; come out disarmed...
...homegrown original musical brings its comic tale of magic and college life to the stage. This “musical chameleon” has something for everyone, fusing traditional musical style with rock and blues. Written and directed by Ben D. Scheuer ’04-’05 and James W. Lawler ’04-’05. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, $8 regular, $5 student. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 4 p.m. Cabot House...