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...E.T.A. Hoffman’s book “Der Sandmann,” the classical ballet “Coppélia” was first choreographed by Arthur St. Léon to the music of Léo Delibes. It is one of the greatest comic classical ballets in history, telling the whimsical tale of the easily fooled Frantz, his love Swanilda, and their encounters with old Dr. Coppélius, the town toy-maker and magician. Though Frantz originally pesters Dr. Coppélius, he is lured by the beauty of the scheming toy-maker?...
Neither of them had read comic books as children but when cast in “The Losers,” a film adaptation of the comic series of the same name, both began to read the books...
...most eloquent poems are those that give credence to three things: the fact of extinction, the fact of aspiration, and the fact of failure in the aspiration. Failure can generate a comic view. It can put you in the human context of others, not judging solely by aspiration, but by the degree to which you and others have failed...There is a big push when you’re young to become yourself, and then you realize that no matter what you’ve done, you’re mortal and unsuccessful. That unites you to the sorrows...
...other hand, Shue does overact in her role as Sonny, and it just feels even more stilted and awkward. Hayden Church’s performance is more compelling. As a primarily comic actor—he played the sex-crazed bachelor Jack in “Sideways” and the laughable villain of “George of the Jungle”—he is good at balancing a sense of humor with the demands of playing a more serious, troubled character...
...drivel, Ricky and Steve still have plenty to mock him for, including his Mancunian monotone and remarkably spherical bald head (like “a fucking orange,” Gervais frequently claims). A 2006 New York Times article claimed that Pilkington was a master of “comic deadpan”—indeed, the humor derived from Karl’s way of thinking is so exquisitely consistent that it can be hard to believe it’s organic...