Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HERB CAEN, 80, classic newspaper columnist; in San Francisco. In the brightly written rat-a-tat of the daily column he produced for 58 years, mostly in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pulitzer-prizewinning Caen was raconteur, funnyman, tipster, nightclubber, friend of the powerful and tireless chronicler of "Baghdad by the Bay," the city he loved and that loved him back...
...Second City," he says, referring to the renowned Chicago-based comedy troupe. "But growing up in Albuquerque I thought, How the hell do you get to be one of those guys?" It wasn't until 1991 that Judge, already married and living in Dallas, decided to express his inner funnyman through animation. With the help of a few library books, he taught himself the craft, which quickly led to the making of Frog Baseball...
...Hanks, now no longer the funnyman, plays Andrew Beckett with outstanding talent. An actor more accustomed to making audiences roll in the aisles, he portrays this character so realistically that we feel almost part of his family--that's why we start to cry at the end of the movie. Denzel Washington as Joe Miller speaks frankly what most of us are taught and conditioned to believe, that "queens are funny; queens are weird...all they want to do is get into your pants." It is through Joe Miller that society's "fear [and] loathing of homosexuals" is vented...
...himself with no undue bashfulness, was as the bus driver Ralph Kramden in his long- rerunning TV show, The Honeymooners. In THE GREAT ONE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through the maze of lies the funnyman wove around his tangled life, including one woozy story about two newlyweds and Gleason, all drunk, and a goat that may have been sober...