Word: comically
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson. Comic novels, essays and biographies waft from Wilson with Mozartean ease. Each book seems better than the last, or at least different in some incomparable way. Such is the case with his approach to Lewis, the British writer and celebrator of Christian thought who delighted both adults (The Screwtape Letters) and children (The Chronicles of Narnia). Fans should be warned that Wilson's portrait of the saintly don contains some fleshy demons...
Dick Tracy Warren Beatty and a brilliant crew turn comic-strip art into glamorous movie artifice. This is not only a straightforward rendering of the story about the big-city dick with a right-angle jaw; it is also a tribute to the lithe, blithe entertainment that Hollywood once served up with style...
Biggest Turkey TV's most obnoxious chef is a would-be comic whose series appears on the Discovery Channel. Pasquale Carpino of Pasquale's Kitchen Express yowls snatches of operatic arias as he demolishes eggplants and describes his recipes in a tootsie-frootsie accent that was barely funny when Chico Marx used...
...from the start, Hollywood made foreigners its greatest stars: Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, Cary Grant and Greta Garbo. So it is only fitting that the torchbearer, the sword wielder, the giant of American movies, should be an overgrown Austrian with a face and body out of a superhero comic...
...devisers of these burly entertainments knew the Arnold character was both incredibly heroic and inherently comic; the films contain their own parodies. Moviegoers realized this too. Sure, even his forehead has intimidating muscles; but then he breaks into a big gap-toothed grin, and the put-off is revealed as a put-on. So to cast Schwarzenegger in comedy is very nearly redundant -- especially when, as with Twins (1988), it offered nothing more than Hollywood high concept: pairing the big guy with scruffy shrimp Danny De Vito. Even lamer is Kindergarten Cop, which opens in the U.S. this week...