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DIED. JOHN L. GOLDWATER, 83, creator of Archie, ageless teenage comic-book character. First drawn in 1941, Archie comics are now published in more than 35 countries...
...started sowell, degenerate at points into stock silliness.The shot-for-shot recreation of the assassinationattempt on Don Corleone is funny enough, but itplays like one of Billy Crystal's Oscar-hostingstunts (and was probably meant to). Most of theother in-jokes are subtler. One of them caps off ahilarious comic sequence involving a fewquasi-crooked FBI agents; the joke so cleverlyplanned that it seems to have ended before thefinal superb surprise. The final in joke includesCrystal's "consigliglieri" speech--a parody of the"I will not seek vengeance" bit in The Godfather.While several sections of that scene are veryenjoyable, their...
Interestingly, Riley pointed out that some works, including a colorful Japanese screen depicting a series of rooms from above, use architecture to create conceptual boundaries, separating events that occur in different times, thereby creating a narrative-almost like frames in a comic book...
...place at the Puddig. But this a cyclical debate, rooted in personal perceptions of art. It is a debate which will always haunt, or at least confuse, artists, and especially comedians, who are conscious of their work. It is a debate that informs my perceptions, of all comic productions, whether on the Pudding stage, "South Park" or "The Simpsons...
Doing presto comedy is a special talent; many Whose Line players are improv veterans who have appeared on the Brit version. (And, don't ask us why, a lot of them did time in Canada.) They possess the verbal agility of the Says You! gang, but their real comic eloquence is in body language. Check out Wayne Brady's encyclopedic jive as he enacts "the history of 20th century dance in 30 seconds" or his tail wagging and panting when told he is a superhero named Playful Licking Puppy Boy. A star is born...