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Staged with convivial informality in HRST's Loeb Ex home, the production is carried by the same comic absurdity that made the novel famous...
...lanky, idealistic and dreamy Greene playing Cervantes/Don Quixote, Gfaller has assembled a cast capable of filling out the costumes of these super-legendary characters. Kenneth Herrera makes a great Sancho Panza, capable of being both the devoutly loyal straight man and the perpetrator of Sancho's own brand of comic truth...
...authentic man than Gore - and a war hero, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam - would bring a certain connectedness and humanity to the ticket, and would serve as a foil to distract attention from Gore's Stepford quality. The two could even play it for endearingly comic effect...
...wrote to amuse ourselves," Leiber says. It shows in the manic energy and irrepressible good humor of their music. It's still hard not to laugh at the comic turns they wrote for the Coasters, such as Charlie Brown and Love Potion No. 9. Such story songs as Along Came Jones and Young Blood were inspired by Leiber's love of radio series like The Shadow. Their subjects ranged from knife fights and no-accounts to class clowns and the clap. That last can be found in what Leiber calls the "snide innuendo" of their hilarious Poison...
Junkie memoirs always have happy endings; they are written by the survivors. But few dopester epics have the goofy lilt of Denis Johnson's 1992 tapestry of short stories. His hero, known only as F__head, is a Candide of the hard stuff, a clumsy innocent who finds comic epiphanies in degradation and atrocity. This film, with handsome Billy Crudup as FH and Samantha Morton as his doomed love, has no visual style to match Johnson's poetic prose. It just lays out the funny-gory scenes--say, a man with a hunting knife in his eye--and hopes...