This is mostly delightful, though anyone who hasn't lived in San Francisco may feel lost, and I, a local, found myself reaching for a map.
It's not exactly focused, but it's mostly delightful: Forney switches up the style and layout of her artwork every page or two, and she's got enough perspective on herself to find some kind of comedy even in painful experiences.
But the opening program, "Weill Style," conceived by Ken Bloom and presented on Thursday evening in the academy's Opera House, was mostly a delightful lark.
The cast was generally delightful.
But playing to an audience of just one, I must report – don't all howl at once – that he is mostly (emphasis on the mostly) delightful: funny, interesting and courteous.
The Coen brothers' saggy but weirdly delightful western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs also landed three nominations after being mostly ignored this awards season.
His one-liners are legion and mostly delightful, with turns of phrase that get in your ear and stick there: "John, you told me it was gonna snow in the winter, I'd go out and bet against it, you know that?" "They're all nice guys.
The result of this archaeological dig through the musty archives is sometimes annoying but mostly delightful, and the fragmentariness of the format is turned into a virtue by the punning captions Hillier attaches to the extracts.
With its ocean and mostly delightful climate, it's a good question why Miami has not been greater earlier, but it always found ways to put people off – riots, urban blight, drug dealing.
It was a delightful phase, it mostly started after Catch-22, and I felt very good about myself.
