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...grump blossom.' GAEL MURPHY, one of the Code Pink activists, making light of Frank's threats to eject the group from the proceedings for their "silliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...achieve that succulent victory, Step Brothers says, is by singing the Andrea Bocelli Por Ti Volare, accompanied by a drum solo. Even a grump has to admit it. That made me laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step Brothers: "Oh, Grow Up!" "Never!" | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...offering - The Little Mermaid, based on Disney's 1989 animated hit, which opened at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre last week - has received the usual fusillade. "Washed Up on Broadway," and "Run for the Lifeboats," ran the New York tabloid headlines. The Times' Ben Brantley, the Scar of the grump brigade, said he "loathed" the whole wretched thing, including even the one aspect of Disney shows that usually wins a grudging cheer, its scenic design. "The whole enterprise," the Times critic sniffed, "is soaked in that sparkly garishness that only a very young child - or possibly a tackiness-worshiping drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Mermaid: In Defense of Disney | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

Most definitely my worship of the Grumpy Pig. It’s my suitemate’s—a tiny brown pig that looks so grumpy that when I stomp up to it and grump back, it’s extremely gratifying. I just can’t frown that hard. I love...

Author: By Emily S. High, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...that I was clamoring to see back on Broadway. Yet it packs in so much precision tap-dancing, lavishly appointed production numbers, talented performers and delightful Harry Warren-Al Dubin songs (including three that weren't in the 1980 show) that you'd have to be a real grump to complain. The wonderful Christine Ebersole, as the bitchy star who breaks an ankle, finally gets a Broadway role to show off her lovely voice and comedic gifts; Michael Cumpsty, though a bit too tailored as the harried director, is a charismatic anchor for the show; and Kate Levering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway and Beyond: Musicals (Other than 'The Producers') | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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