Word: madcapping
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...meanings. For sheer chutzpah -- and fun -- it would be tough to top the vaudeville The Comedy of Errors that opened last week at New York City's Lincoln Center after playing at Chicago's Goodman Theater in 1983 and the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival in 1984. In this madcap vision of ancient Ephesus, everyone must learn to juggle...
...this madcap adventure came to a brutal halt right before spring break--the day we received our housing assignments. I read the notice on my doorstep. It said I had been assigned to Cabot House for the next three years or 30,000 miles of shuttle bus rides, whichever came first...
This episode ends happily, and so do all of Frazier's stories. The reader winds up laughing and knowing a great deal about subjects -- bears in northwestern Montana, a pair of madcap Soviet emigre artists -- that most people can live without. The author's loopy laziness is a pose; he works carefully and hard to make everything look like...
Demme (Melvin and Howard) is on higher ground and does a snappier dance. E. Max Frye's script offers a careering trip through the East Coast Nighttown previously explored by Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours and Blue Velvet. Solid Citizen Jeff Daniels meets Madcap Airhead Melanie Griffith and in a trice is stripped, handcuffed, kidnaped, beaten up and plied with big wet licky kisses. Natch, he goes for it. "What are you gonna do," Melanie asks, "now that you've seen how the other half lives . . . the other half of you." Daniels holds together better than the movie, which lurches...
Parker filmed The Girl in the Picture in Forsyth's vignettes-from-real-life style, but he left out a crucial ingredient. Forsyth's films have a subtle, underlying madcap element that gives his productions an air of unseen comic conspiracy intruding on the mundane world. Despite its humor and certain intermittent absurdities, The Girl in the Picture remains basically a mundane portrayal of romantic love...