Word: comically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this week's release of Boomerang, his first film in two years. From the moment in 1980 when he burst onto Saturday Night Live, Murphy had the audience's eye. More, he had their affection; not just his talent but his boyish good nature won him that. And because comic charisma radiated through the characters he played on SNL, Murphy was able to jump from TV-sketch artist to big-screen draw. He took two roles Richard Pryor had rejected, in 48 HRS. and Trading Places, and overtook Pryor as the top black film star. He stepped into a Sylvester...
...lifelong fan, I keep waiting for the comic heroine of The Philadelphia Story to enter. Wouldn't Tracy Lord have chastened Dexter with a blithe reprimand and moved on? If not humor, what about understanding and empathy? But these, the critics found, were the very qualities she had trouble conveying, which limited her to light comedies and, in later years, to playing starchy, irascible eccentrics. Hepburn was dogged for years by Dorothy Parker's famous put-down of her performance in the Broadway play The Lake: "Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotion from A to B." If her parents...
...Burton, whose two stars were among the premiere character actors in the last decade, ended up drawing a real psychological drama from what could have been a cliche. By tracing the evolution of a superhero and his superfoe, Burton gave the viewer real insight into the complexities of the comic book legends...
...point--reminiscent of the corniest comic book scenes--Catwoman come to Penguin's lair and proposes a plot to destroy Batman. As anything but an opportunity for her to stretch and purr in her clingy suit, the scene is a complete waste...
...Newbury Comics (upstairs at the Garage on JFK Street) offers a less flashy shopping experience, but it does win the price wars, with hit CDs always on sale for $10.77. In addition to an excellent selection of alternative and classical CDs, the store sells a wide range of posters, T-shirts and comic books...