Both are, essentially, pastiche artists; O'Hara, who has never won, is a wholesome nineteen-fifties heroine reincarnated, while Chenoweth is doing nineteen-thirties screwball by way of Madeline Kahn.
"I as a person am a little bit screwball by nature, so I think it was just natural," Miller said.
Some pitchers also employ a curving ball that breaks in the opposite way from the regulation curve, a pitch known variously as the fadeaway (the curve thrown by Christy Mathewson), the screwball (thrown by Carl Hubbell), or some other name applied by the pitcher himself.
For fun, he listens to classical Chinese music, though he also enjoys screwball comedies by the Hong Kong star Stephen Chow.
Playing a less-than-merry widow in this somber screwball comedy by Tom Donaghy, Mary Steenburgen has that grown-up waif look that makes sane people run for cover.
Playing a less than merry widow in "The Beginning of August," the somber screwball comedy by Tom Donaghy now at the Atlantic Theater Company, Mary Steenburgen has that grown-up waif look that makes sane people run for cover.
Every now and then, it behooves us all to read a book with no redeeming social value whatsoever — something like HURRICANE PUNCH (Morrow/HarperCollins, $24.95), the latest in a screwball series by Tim Dorsey featuring Serge A. Storms, a Florida serial killer who loves the tacky regional aesthetic and juices up by riding out hurricanes.
But it was tuning in to be surprised by an appearance by screwball attorney Elsbeth Tascioni Carrie Prestonn), overworked mother Patti Nyholm Martha Plimptonn), or devious defense attorney Nancy Crozier Mamie Gummerr) that made the show like dropping in at a local bar where you know everyone's name and couldn't wait to see who would turn up next.
Since Hildy's fiancé -- as opposed to fiancée -- was now also Walter's romantic rival, the character metamorphosed into the decent, sexless, humorless fellow required by screwball convention (a part frequently played, as here, by Ralph Bellamy).
It's hard to argue with that conclusion as this screwball crew, played by a star-studded cast, is briskly put through its paces by Alex Timbers, the director.
A screwball comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock isn't something you see every day.
