The pugnacity of Walsh's comic direction infuses turbulently free enterprise with tragedy.
The tightly wound script conjures a classic-Hollywood tone, as does the precisely timed comic direction of two local romantics who bring grand screwball fantasies to life.
Because of his vivid personality and fondness for show business dish, Mr. Vilanch, serving as M.C. for the fourth time, steered it in a comic direction to the disadvantage of the more earnest performers.
With John Cusack awol, part deux focuses on the hangers-on, and the promotion of bare-chested, budgie-smuggling Rob Corddry to lead signals a change in comic direction: this one's louder, crasser, sketchier.
Impulsively, they improvise a story about someone called Melinda and each shows how it can be taken in a comic or tragic direction - and Allen gives us the dual narrative on screen.
One Direction's Comic Relief single "One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)" is up four places to number two.
In one New York Times review, Sean Wilsey called Fun Home "a pioneering work, pushing two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions" and "a comic book for lovers of words".
"Fame: One Direction #2" (the sequel to their first comic book "Fame: One Direction," apparently) follows the boys on -- you guessed it -- their rise to fame.
In the singles chart, One Direction saw their Comic Relief effort One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks) rise to number two in the wake of Friday's Red Nose Day.
He has been making up for his silence since, with richly comic roles under the direction of Denis and Bruno Podalydès.
"When you look at the Mad comic book under the direction of Harvey Kurtzman, it blows your mind," Mr. Sacco said.
