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...second phase of comic relief occurred when the Callbacks reenacted National Lampoon's Griswold family competing for the gold medal in nothing less than the luge. The ever-present and irksome Scott Hamilton asked the predictable "Where are you folks going now that you've won the gold?" The audience gave the only appropriate response--Wallyworld...
...People ask me why I did Maus as a comic, as if I had a choice, as if I could have done a ballet," said Spiegelman in a lecture that was interrupted frequently by audience laughter. "It's a medium of language that I learned as a kid that stayed with...
...tiny gold-plated shopping cart may seem like a bad joke in these recessionary times. But to Jamie Reidy, 45, an out-of-work Los Angeles comic, it's a dream -- or Dreamkeeper, as he calls the foot-high cart. Gold-plated (retailing for $1,000) or chrome-plated ($85), the cart is selling like double-coupon groceries in pricey gift shops and even supermarkets in the U.S., Japan and Europe. "Call it the Pet Rock of the '90s," cracks Reidy, who conceived this "universal image" in 1989 as he wheeled a stray cart in a mall parking...
...strapped side by side on a roller coaster, and you have Harry Crews writing Southern gothic. In 1990 he produced the uproarious Body, in which he yoked a family of half-crazy Georgia crackers to the queasy glitz of big-time body building. Now there's Scar Lover, a comic love story filled with death and mutilation...
Guys and Dolls offers a nonpareil text and score, and a creative team so impressive that before the first preview, a year-long national tour starting in September had already been booked around the U.S. But the $5.5 million staging of composer-lyricist Frank Loesser's comic gem will be hard pressed to equal the emotional impact of his Most Happy Fella, telling of an inept but earnest quest for love by a hulking, homely immigrant farmer in California's Napa Valley. The book, also by Loesser, is intermittently burdened with the same irritating cuteness and insincerity that lumbers Crazy...