When 19th-century German immigrants joined the Southern Uplanders and flinty New Englanders already on the prairie at Indianapolis, the city's thrifty, conservative character was forged.
In 1973, he appeared in a Benson & Hedges cinema commercial; in 1975, he appeared in a series of advertisements for Trans World Airlines, in which he played several eccentric characters, including Thrifty McTravel, Jeremy 'Piggy Peak Thymee and an Italian singer, Vito.
(Breathed is a thrifty soul: some of the characters in his first nationally syndicated comic, "Bloom County," originally appeared in "The Academia Waltz," his strip from the University of Texas at Austin student newspaper, where we occasionally crossed paths in the 1970s).
And while Legends Of Tomorrow – about a misfit team bouncing through time to save the cosmos – initially felt like a clearing house for minor characters left over from Arrow and Flash, even that thrifty setup had a tragic edge.
All part of his own plan, not Thrifty's.
Having passed Captain America: The First Avenger and Thor on the scorecard, with a strong overseas showing (60.7%) for a character with almost zero pre-awareness, and the company's thriftiest (if you can call $130m thrifty) effort so far, Ant-Man is now a certified success.
Ms. Hooper maintains a sense of dread and confusion (which one of her characters is more mad becomes a legitimate question), but even at a thrifty 200-some pages you have to wonder if "The Engagement" is not meant to be a shorter, Poe-like tale.
