Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story: the multipart series that takes on a big subject, pursues it with crusading zeal and seems to run on forever. Such journalistic tomes frequently seem created as much to please award judges as to satisfy readers. "We're thinking about putting the following helpful advisory over them," syndicated Humor Columnist Dave Barry wrote this month. "'Caution! Journalism Prize Entry! Do Not Read...
Born of the same teen fantasy-come-true world as Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Risky Business, Fox's latest showcases an enterprising young man who can turn the world on its side and hurdle any obstacle with humor and flair. Fox's wide-eyed enthusiasm quickly wins the audience over and he gives his character more dimensions than do the pin-ups of him in teen magazines...
Miraculously, this veritable carnival manages to fit into the confines of the Quincy House Cage, a storage cubicle in the bowels of New Quincy. The actors use the space's claustrophobic confines to their advantage, colliding with each other as the slapstick humor requires...
DEWITT IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A sense of humor. But some things are simply not funny. So when Dewitt rose from bed the other day, tripped over a banana peel, slid across a floorful of marbles, stepped on a rollerskate, tumbled down the staircase and fell into the swimming pool, he was not amused. It was all so derivative, for one thing. Not to mention the intense physical pain...
...overlong and heavyhanded parody of Tennessee Williams that ironically also features the best individual moments. Sandra Shipley slinks about as Blanche DuBois, while James Andreassi as Stanley sits lolling his tongue, shouting "Stella!" every fifteen seconds and occasionally spraying the overheated Blanche with a beer. Funny, but the humor fades long before the actors do. Not even the sudden introduction of Maggie from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as instant parodies of Mamet and Beckett tossed in like ingredients in Ubu's wild bouillabaise, can save it from ennui. Every now and then, though, Durang's original...