The idea for the project came from Mr. Hambrecht, a voluble, energetic comic book fanatic who often wears red and can talk a blue streak about everything from Christianity to Carl Jung.
Mr. Lane, our greatest comic stage star, provides a counterpoint in "The Nance," a play about a burlesque star from the 1930s whose dreary personal life is juxtaposed with his energetic, comic turn as a stock character rooted in gay stereotypes.
In his new book "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America," David Hajdu spends a fair amount of time parsing the career of Fredric Wertham, a particularly wild-eyed, energetic anti-comics zealot.
This is Larry David territory, and while the troupe can match his astuteness here and there, it deflates the heart to think of energetic young comics merely aspiring to rip off the middle-aged geniuses who came before them.
(A. O. Scott) 'DOUBT' (PG-13, 1 44) Adapted by John Patrick Shanley from his stage play, this drama about a Roman Catholic priest suspected of child molestation stars a tamped-down Philip Seymour Hoffman as the accused and an energetic, often wackily comic Meryl Streep as his accuser.
(Scott) 'DOUBT' (PG-13, 1 44) Adapted by John Patrick Shanley from his stage play, this drama about a Roman Catholic priest suspected of child molestation stars a tamped-down Philip Seymour Hoffman as the accused and an energetic, often wackily comic Meryl Streep as his accuser.
O. Scott) 'DOUBT' (PG-13, 1 44) Adapted by John Patrick Shanley from his stage play, this drama about a Roman Catholic priest suspected of child molestation stars a tamped-down Philip Seymour Hoffman as the accused and an energetic, often wackily comic Meryl Streep as his accuser.
Denver stand-up comedian Ben Roy is one of the most energetic and naturally funny comics in the local comedy scene.
The author's bibliotherapeutic intentions loom too large and they slow the story's trajectory, but the cleanly lined illustrations are energetic, with plenty of comic-book pop, if more Archie than Superman.
For all of Amy's self-deprecating exuberance and energetic self-determination and, of courself-determination andh meshes with Schumer's—she's getting away by the skin of her teeth.
The energetic and breezily disreputable 2010 comic-book adaptation Kick-Ass, about the bathetic crime-fighting efforts of a nerdy teenager (Aaron Taylor- Johnson) in a homemade superhero costume, offered a refreshing antidote to the self-seriousness of most other Hollywood superhero films.
