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...start, Tracy (Marissa Jaret Winokur) is trapped at home, watching "The Corky Collins Show" with her friend Penny Pingleton (Kerry Butler). Fat Mama Edna (Fierstein) wants to be alone in her misery; she growls to Penny, "Go tell your mother she wants you." Edna is married to medium-size Wilbur (Dick Latessa), who runs the local joke shop; his ambition is to "keep the air from leaking out of my sofa-size Whoopee Cushion." The goal Edna mentions has the same working-class practicality about it: she wants to "find a way to get blood out of car upholstery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Let Us "Spray" | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

With ratings of Ally McBeal sagging in recent months, the show's producers tried to give the series TV's equivalent of cosmetic surgery, goosing it with guest stars like Matthew Perry, Jon Bon Jovi and even Dame Edna. But such distractions couldn't mask the fact that the show was aging badly, and last week Fox announced that after five seasons, the series will go off the air in May. Thus end the travails of Ally, the neurotic Boston lawyer played by CALISTA FLOCKHART, whose vividly rendered fantasies and ethereal body mass captivated and irritated viewers in almost equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 29, 2002 | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...starring and written by Jack Neo. For the past 12 years Neo's also found time to star in a highly rated comedy variety show, Top Fun, where he engages in the kind of gender-bending beloved by comics around the world. In Singapore, Neo is Ron Howard, Dame Edna Everage and about half the cast of Friends all rolled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neo is the One | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...Winners DAME EDNA EVERAGE Cross-dressed Aussie gets role on Ally McBeal. You'll know they've jumped the shark when an Edna-Ally-Bon Jovi love triangle is revealed STEPHEN DOWNING Mentally impaired Briton is freed after 27 years in prison for a bum murder rap. At least he got to miss the Thatcher years LARRY KING Voluble host re-signs with CNN for nearly $7 million a year. Heck, we'd chat with a totally with-it babe like Angie Dickinson for free Losers QUEEN ELIZABETH II Her Majesty may sacrifice her royal train to cut costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

Hunched in the chill, we head down a street, past the onetime residence of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Does anybody really remember what she wrote?” Wurtzel demands, pointing...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Author Wurtzel Finds a Niche for the Bitch | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

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