| 单词 | zany |
| 例句 | And just like that, as he stared at them, the idea came, an idea as zany as they were. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Running in the mornings and reading in the afternoons gave him just enough stability to endure the zany nights at the McNabs’. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, Charles’s mother did not particularly care for what Mr. Lemoncello was doing inside his zany library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z In the program for “Enter Laughing,” the zany, old-fashioned feast of musical-comedy comfort food at the York Theater Company, a glossary of film stars from classic Hollywood takes up two full pages. Review: ‘Enter Laughing’ Delights. (Except if You’re Greta Garbo.) 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z An arrestingly inventive four-part evocation of natural and urban vistas, the piece is full to bursting with raucous, scintillating and zany effects. Music Review: Straying From the Canon With Unfamiliar Fare 2010-12-12T22:17:00Z Relentlessly cheerful and arguably a bit too zany, "Cedar Rapids" takes the dudely, profane comic tradition of movies like "The Hangover" and nudges it toward the Middle American mockery of Mike Judge or Matt Groening. "Cedar Rapids": "The Office" meets "The Hangover" in Iowa's sin city! 2011-02-09T20:30:00Z Some of the book’s zany moments get a little too cute, too. Review: ‘The Future for Curious People’ by Gregory Sherl Ms. Sullivan’s characteristic alter ego has been a zany glamour girl with a light operatic voice. Review: ‘Another Hundred People’ Digs Into Stephen Sondheim’s Catalog 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Years later, after Ms. Rodgers revealed in interviews the unhappy elements of her childhood, her zany novels seemed perhaps a sort of commentary on the chasms that at times exist between parents and children. Mary Rodgers, who composed ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ and wrote ‘Freaky Friday,’ dies Who knew that Henry Fonda had a zany side? TCM Classic Film Festival: Peter Fonda remembers his father, Henry Fonda 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But he was always more of a comic provocateur than an ideologue, specializing in thumbing his nose at institutions and formalities in zany ways. Steal This Archive? Abbie Hoffman’s Papers Become a College Collection 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z For all the zany exuberance surrounding Johnson’s role as mail-art webmaster, there’s a lot of darkness in the book. ‘Not Nothing’ Tries to Capture the Artist Ray Johnson 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z After a decade-long hiatus, Seattle comedy troupe The Habit came back in full force in 2011 with a tight, zany show at the Bathhouse Theater. Seattle comedy troupe The Habit returns, minotaurs and Hamlet in tow 2012-11-15T20:59:03Z Diller gradually adopted the props, zany wardrobe and stage persona that would become her trademark. Pioneering comedian Phyllis Diller dies at age 95 2012-08-20T19:49:12Z The zany Swedish rockers the Hives — who returned earlier this year with their first album in a decade — made stage-wear fun again with their bold black-and-white suits. Dressed for Success: 7 Bands in Uniform 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Oswald and Larsen tackle the array of material with pluck, and Nemo Jones's music – like the writing – is best when it leaves zany behind and goes for tuneful melody. Short Shrifts – review 2012-07-04T17:12:41Z "Bounty" is another zany multicourse meal where the wine flows, the waiters cavort and educate. Take a bite out of local bounty with Caf? Nordo's seafood-themed adventure 2010-05-25T21:39:00Z He sees "Benny Hill" as the main reason people associate the melody with "farce, madcap humor, and zany high jinks." Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The network, which is known for its zany youth-oriented programs, did not say when the show would premiere. Mike Tyson, with pigeon sidekick, to star as TV cartoon detective 2013-05-10T23:37:57Z For a long time their zany creations disguised the complexity of their creative efforts. Haute Culture: General Idea - review 2011-03-01T14:00:59Z In the old footage, some of which she found on YouTube, Benko drew inspiration from a zany little dance in which Brice wiggles her arms and shuffles her feet like a wannabe ballerina. Julie Benko Was the ‘Funny Girl’ No One Had Heard of, Until Now 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The leap between down-to-earth sobriety and the zany neo-Classical vision speaks volumes about psychic tensions roiling the Puritan soul of America. Art Review: ?Jubilation/Rumination? at American Folk Art Museum 2012-01-27T00:08:07Z Ms. Rossi was among the stars of that scene, and this is a captivating show of her zany, imaginary reverse paintings on Plexiglas and surrealistic graphite drawings from 1967 to 1975. Museum & Gallery Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Sadly, this pointless cover of Henry Mancini's lounge standard is suitable only for 'zany' Euro hatchback ads starring smug men with annoying hair. Madness; Iggy Azalea; Michael Bublé: this week's new tracks 2013-04-08T05:00:00Z Carell’s terrific in the role, but if his name draws people in expecting some zany, “Office”-style, deadpan humor, they’ll be sorely disappointed. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z We want zany multiple-personality-disorder moms who shrug and toss back canned beer! "The Big C": Kooky, unsexy cancer 2010-08-14T23:01:00Z More folk song than bel canto, they set zany poems by Matthew Zapruder, including a jealous ode to Canada in the style of a barroom drunk. NYFOS Next Features a New Work by Juantio Becenti 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z While "The Wilds" might be "kids survive a plane crash" lite, it's actually more zany than "Yellowjackets." The call of Amazon's puzzling "The Wilds." It can tide you over until "Yellowjackets" 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z As admirable as Cyrus’ intentions were, we’re certain show producers hoped she did something zanier considering they were highly promoting her return after last year’s infamous twerking. MTV Video Music Awards 2014: Best and worst moments 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, ABC's zany sitcom "Single Parents" became the latest TV series to introduce a polyamorous relationship into its main storyline. Polyamory is on the rise, and ABC's comedy "Single Parents" is normalizing it with a loving throuple 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The album's eclectic song lineup includes two Kern-Hammerstein covers, a terrific take on Joe Jackson's "Breaking Us in Two" and a zanily Bobs-esque treatment of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." The Bobs, now Seattle-based, celebrate 30th birthday 2012-08-22T23:14:03Z The musical is adapted from the zany 1994 movie about a trio of drag queens traveling across the Australian outback in a bus. Bette Midler joins 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' 2010-10-13T18:31:00Z But what to replace “The Stars and Stripes Forever” with on a slightly zanier Independence Day playlist? Classical Music This Week: A Maverick Fourth, Netrebko’s Newest and Twyla 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z This Ron Howard comedy takes the mantra “Do what you love” to some zany and enterprising places. 9 Movies About Work to Watch This Labor Day 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z So it's fair to say that James Corden and his successor, Owain Arthur, in Richard Bean's barnstorming comic play One Man, Two Guvnors are zanies in the true sense of the word. Z is for zanies 2012-06-05T13:46:31Z But for the most part the story is refracted through the zany Chicano vaudeville style that is Culture Clash's signature. 'Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival' misplays the drama 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z There was also a somewhat zany show-and-tell but more on that later. Carpetbagger Blog: 'The Help' Stars Improvise on the Lunch Script 2011-12-05T13:30:12Z The show was as outsized as ever, but its zanier moments got the ballast they needed from plotlines dealing with, say, abortion or coded language around black women’s accomplishments. Scandal's Fake Donald Trump Isn't Believable 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z He wasn’t jokey, he wasn’t zany, he wasn’t any of the things I had come to associate with Robin Williams, but his warmth was wholly recognizable and I was in awe. Why Robin Williams Was a Millennial Hero 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z They’re followed by zany peasant dancers, and children, or actors playing children, who stage mock battles on horses constructed from paper and bamboo. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z Soon, a zany cat crashes in, announcing, “We can have lots of good fun that is funny!” Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z The many passages for the expanded ensemble — especially the flower waltz, topped by Andrew Jordan’s zany floral headdresses — are enjoyable and adroitly organized, filling the stage with lines, processions and concentric circles. Review: A ‘Nutcracker’ Taps and Swings 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Bosch must have been well versed in the zany Carnival atmosphere, and its suspension of class distinctions behind anonymous masks. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z Indeed it's arguable that movies, really, were always where he belonged, because he needs a story to make uncontrived opportunities for his zany skills. Comedy gold: Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act 2013-04-04T16:28:36Z Now, we have zany, brainy “Nicotine,” her third novel since 2014. ‘Nicotine’: The new zany-brainy novel from Nell Zink 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z There's the Innocent, "a naive but charming clown, striving to find his own place in the world"; the Trickster, "the creator and supreme master of the world of Kooza", and the zany King of Fools. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kooza/Cirque du Soleil – review 2013-01-13T00:05:32Z Thirty years ago, she wrote a zany novel called “Bigfoot Dreams” about a tabloid journalist enchanted by Sasquatch. Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The staging involved plastic flamingos, zany costumes and engagement from the whole company; it wasn’t exactly innovative, but it was perfectly good fun. Wolf Trap Opera presents engaging French duo: Sailors and breasts An over-the-top satire of operatic quest narratives and would-be coups d’état, Prokofiev’s opera shoots ripe parodies of Romanticism through with sardonic punchiness and zany chaos. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “From beautiful downtown Burbank,” Gary Owens vaulted to fame playing the zany announcer in the landmark TV comedy series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.” Gary Owens, announcer on TV’s ‘Laugh-In,’ dies at 80 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z With additions, this crude motorized buggy becomes a zany wooden mobile home. Review: A House Car? For ‘Microbe and Gasoline,’ It’s Freedom 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “No. 13,” a menacing installation by JÖR by Guđmundur Jörundsson, gathers nine faceless male mannequins — five suspended from the ceiling, four lined up like corpses on the floor — all dressed in zanily varied pinstripe suits. Nordic Heritage Museum casts edgy ‘Weather Diaries’ exhibit 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z He’s the straightest, dullest, pleasantest man imaginable — the ideal victim for Israel’s zany comedy about a secret government bureaucracy unleashed from any moral constraints. Book review: ‘The Global War on Morris,’ a political satire by Congressman Steve Israel 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Sticking a dagger in conformity in under two minutes, this sharp, peremptory film turns the tension between its loose, surreal line drawings and rigidly uniform dialogue into zany fun. ‘The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Charming, Safe Collection 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The novel, about a hard-up educational administrator who lands a position at Cow Eye Community College and faces the task of uniting its fractious faculty members, seemed zany, intelligent and carefully constructed. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Whether describing life in the early days of the Merce Cunningham company or being part of one of Robert Rauschenberg’s zany performances, Mr. Paxton is an entertaining storyteller — self-effacing and wry. Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z But she's also enterprising, whether in the zany schemes she tries to lure Jake into as a teenager or, later, in her successful career as a car dealer with a semi-illegal modus operandi. 'The Constant Heart': Beware the devotion of a complicated woman 2012-09-19T21:10:09Z Do the show’s zanier Swedes have a basis in reality? Amy Poehler Explains What's Funny About Sweden 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “Sunny,” a zany comedy about five narcissists running a bar, falls in the latter category. Meet the Secret Weapon of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Cora was a zany caricature of greed and deviousness. Angela Lansbury's spirit and star power burn as bright as ever 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z We may all start off by reading the zany antics of Dr. Seuss, but by high school, the message is clear: “Abandon all mirth, ye who enter here.” Perspective | Finally, a comic novel gets a Pulitzer Prize. It’s about time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z So, where do we find those zany Parkers in Season 2? Jason Jones Moves ‘The Detour’ From Trailer Park to Central Park 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z It is more like a zanier downscale version of the Upper West Side of “Seinfeld,” itself an anachronism, given the area’s real estate boom. Movie Review: ?The Trouble With Bliss? Is a Number of Things 2012-03-22T22:46:58Z With zany touches like Grandma’s pink-streaked hair, this is a book to get creative juices flowing. It’s Party Time: Picture Books About Dancing, Drumming and Mischief-Making 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z A concert shot of Bowie seen through Ronson’s legs is zany fun, too. Review: A feral, mischievous, ecstatic Bowie revealed in new Seattle MoPOP photo exhibit 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z They included a zanily lopsided top hat that was named Champain, after a futuristic 1950s Miami Beach hotel. Front Row: A Head Full of His Dreams 2010-10-13T21:10:00Z There are no long, mesmerizing passages here, no quirky punctuation, no nimble leaps between grim reality and zany comedy that are Saramago’s hallmark. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z She did just that moments after the curtain closed on a rather zany reception where audience members are treated as wedding guests. Always a Bride and Groom, Now Together as a Married Couple 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z He and Ms. Bowles never establish much in the way of romantic rapport, and even when the zanier aspects of the plot lurch into gear, this gifted comic actor never quite finds his groove. Theater Review: ‘Irma La Douce,’ Back on the Streets 2014-05-08T19:50:34Z It's a zany steampunk space opera that is less a conventional novel than a series of intellectual vignettes. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2013-07-18T09:00:00Z He loved to read, especially zany books by Daniel Pinkwater, and created his first comic strip in seventh grade. ‘Origami Yoda’ book series ends with a trip to the D.C. museums But the son in this mother-son comedy is treated as a zany prankster rather than the malevolent sociopath that he really is. Big Issues (and, Yes, Amour) Hit Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z And feast she did, with so much inspired and zany stage business that even her castmates in the rambunctious Roundabout Theater Company musical revival could barely hold in their laughter. Memorable Theater of 2016: Twining Twins, Bathroom Sex and Cod Kisses 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Fans of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” may want to give this zany comedy a try. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Killing Eve’ and ‘Run’ 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Mark Brown’s “Around the World in 80 Days,” a zany small-cast adaptation of the famed Jules Verne novel, follows. Village plans ‘In the Heights,’ ‘Mary Poppins’ for 2014-15 2014-03-05T02:16:40Z The cast of eight perform with repurposed household objects and urban detritus, creating rhythm out of garbage cans, suitcases, radiator hoses and precision choreography, all while threading in humor through one-upping showdowns and zany mishaps. Farewell to ‘Stomp,’ a Show at the Beating Heart of New York 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The production, wrote Holly Williams in The Independent, "pitches its audience into a zanily macabre funfair, the traverse stage littered with clapped-out bumper cars and a giant clown's head". Sondheim hails 'fresh' Assassins show 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “Then, one magical moment after the next leads you to a zany, out-of-control adventure filled with surprising twists and turns.” Disneyland delays opening of first-ever Mickey and Minnie ride until 2023 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Wimmer wove his zany strain through two sequels that were published in 2001 as parts of the “Irish Wine Trilogy.” Dick Wimmer, Whose Persistence Got Him Published, Dies at 74 2011-05-25T03:06:29Z Billie Piper remains the only decent thing about it, but the endless zany editing and the fact that it's hard to like or care about a single character makes it something of a joyless slog. Tonight's TV highlights: A Farmer's Life For Me 2011-02-01T00:05:01Z And so begins a zany, madcap tour of most familiar Christmas songs, stories, TV specials and movies. 2 shows that take a lighthearted look at the holidays 2011-12-08T21:45:04Z These and other zany characters give a bracingly weird luster to “The Wonderful World of Dissocia,” the intensely funny and unsettling play that Theater Alliance has staged at the Anacostia Playhouse. Intriguing, challenging ‘The Wonderful World of Dissocia’ by Theater Alliance You’re expected to appreciate that, so you can ease into the zany bombast. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z After eight seasons of this zany, ridiculously fanciful peekaboo at Hollywood from the inside out, "Entourage" finally came to an end last weekend. What our writers love this week 2011-09-14T22:01:04Z But here we are five years later, with Mr. Samberg still leading the zany and diverse sitcom through high jinks all over Brooklyn. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Instinct’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z “Villains” zigzags between tones, zanily bouncing between comedy and horror-esque thrills, but it fails to deliver any satisfaction through either genre. ‘Villains’ Review: Blundering Robbers Meet Their Match 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The show’s zaniest moment was her pseudo-macho rendition of “What’s New Pussycat?,” which she recalled discovering at the age of 3 1/2 while watching the variety show “This Is Tom Jones.” Music Review: Anastasia Barzee at the Metropolitan Room 2013-04-23T20:56:38Z Blothar, became an Internet sensation last month when he delivered a zany yet insightful TED Talk on regional identity. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The show resurrected a vintage style of zany comedy that freed up Williams and her co-star, Penny Marshall, to act both more adult and more childish at the same time. More Than Shirley: Cindy Williams’s 6 Best Moments Onscreen 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z While it’s tempting to laugh off the idea that a creation myth should be injected into what is supposed to be a science program, maybe it’s not as zany as it initially seems. “Cosmic” meltdown! Neil deGrasse Tyson under siege from Christian right 2014-04-04T12:00:00Z Even the zaniest comedy needs to take its premise seriously in order to work. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It's got everything - the long shadows and uncomfortable paranoia of a classic cold-war film, the hidden identities and dark secrets of an introspective Stephen Poliakoff piece and the zany, fish-out-of-water antics of, say, Uncle Buck. From Russia with Oven Gloves: the Soviet spies in suburban America story 2010-06-30T12:45:00Z Nevertheless, she persisted, and ended up with 25 Emmys for 11 seasons of “The Carol Burnett Show,” in which she zipped through movie parodies, vaudevillian musical numbers, zany skits and audience banter with panache. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Curb’ and a Carol Burnett Celebration 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z The Beatles' second feature film "Help!" offered a spoof — in zany British style, no less — on the Bond films. "Love and Let Die": Why the Beatles and James Bond remain strong British cultural exports 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z The app, optimal for taking copious selfies, allows you to add dozens of zany effects such as filters and mirror images. Watch Jimmy Fallon and Katie Holmes Play with Photo Booth 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, July 6: Our contest to compare any two items from our zany list. Style Invitational Week 1391: ‘Covid’-free zone! 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The zany star of such films as "Kung Fu Panda" and "Gulliver's Travels" promised "a huge opening number" and several costume changes. Black, Fergie prep for Kids' Choice Awards slime 2011-04-02T13:20:16Z Now humor — mordant or zany — is the default mode. Art Review: Armory Show, Modern and Contemporary, at Piers 92 and 94 2012-03-08T23:15:02Z Since the advent of computerized metal cutting, some of Mr. Bulwinkle’s zany characters have been plagiarized, but everything he makes is forged by hand. | Local Intelligence: Bulwinkleland 2012-03-04T05:20:51Z The medley of songs associated with Ms. Thompson, the ne plus ultra exemplar of a style that might be called zany chic, were a particular treat. Review: John Epperson Steps Out, Leaving the Diva at Home 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Populated by geniuses and virtuosos, the stories are zanily cerebral and proceed with fractal precision. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z That fixation produced the beloved Honey Boo Boo, whose unique brand and zany family earned her a show of her own. Israeli parents protest a controversial new commercial for faux-denim diapers 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But, hunting among the zeds, I decided to write about "zanies" in the sense of clowns, fools and comics. Z is for zanies 2012-06-05T13:46:31Z In person, however, he is humble and thoughtful, if tightly coiled, with the taut, sinewy body of a long-distance runner and zany green eyes. Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z But one cannot help but compare the zany satiric bite of “Get Out” with the resonant intelligence of Baldwin in “I Am Not Your Negro.” “Get Out” and the Death of White Racial Innocence 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z In a good 30 Rock, the zany storylines and non sequiturs still add up to meaningful stories about the characters; at best, they wave together several stories into a larger theme. The Morning After: 30 Rock at 60 Minutes 2012-02-10T14:20:37Z “Welcome to Sweden” explores less familiar territory and best of all, is not in the least bit zany. ‘Welcome to Sweden’ and ‘Working the Engels’ on NBC 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z There’s nothing zany about “Harlem Shuffle,” but Whitehead has cast this novel with toughs like Chet the Vet, who flashes gold canines, and Miami Joe, who wears a high-waisted purple suit. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Symphony No 11 undercuts its own adagio with some zany sleigh bells. Want to read some of the best classical CD reviews around? Try Vice magazine 2010-12-07T16:03:00Z If you're a fan of FreeCreditReport.com and its zany spots, you will be in heaven watching the new IFC. Is IFC selling out? Channel runs commercials now, irking viewers 2010-12-14T02:46:04Z I would have enjoyed seeing a spinoff comedy about his zany misadventures with the other seniors in the nursing home. Breaking Bad Watch: The One Who Knocks 2011-10-10T16:00:00Z Accompanied by a funky ’30s-style jazz ensemble, Ms., LuPone runs the gamut from ferocious to zany in what amounts to a fiery deconstruction of torch song traditions. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Much of what follows could be described as zany or madcap. Review | Escape reality with these delightful old-time thrillers. You’ll forget 2020 is almost here. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Are we going to see more growth around Bertie's experiences with therapy and mental health, or any particularly zany adventures for Tuca? “Tuca & Bertie” creator discusses codependent friendships and teases a "disaster" of a finale 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z This zany Seattle Balkan brass-and-drum band makes mayhem mixing tradition and innovation, making stops along the way in klezmerville, Bollywood and the circus. 16 top entertainment picks to kick off 2012 2011-12-28T21:43:08Z But then he returned to upbeat, supercharged, overflowing, zany pop, applying all his sounds, technology and ideas toward immediate gratification and the joys of far too much sonic information. Music Review: Oorutaichi Performs at Japan Society 2012-11-18T22:25:21Z He doesn’t doubt, though, that in time that zany collage-in-progress will form a cohesive vision. | Inspiration: Jonathan Simkhai: Coaxing the Clothes From His Head 2013-07-17T20:28:17Z Cue the partying, family disputes, zany hookups and rueful murmurs. In ‘Hollidaysburg,’ Friends Gather During Thanksgiving 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A statue of a police officer patrols a zany parade painted on the wall. Will the Dr. Seuss museum be one of the places you’ll go? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The archive, at turns zany and poignant, is a photo album of a long and dramatic decade, from the aftermath of Sept. 11 to the reverberations of the Arab Spring. Bidoun, an Influential Magazine of the Middle East, Extends Its Reach 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z Delevingne admits her public image—zany wild child who dates rock stars and isn’t afraid to get weird—has likely contributed to her success, and informs how people view her work. How 'Paper Towns' Could Turn Cara Delevingne Into a Movie Star 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z No other purpose seems capable of justifying its zany central conceit. Consumerism triumphs in The Joneses 2010-04-26T10:22:00Z "It's not crazy like psychotic, it's crazy like zany," she said of the book, while her father quickly deadpanned: "You are not psychotic." Robert Crumb, daughter look at life in "Crazy Artist" 2010-11-22T20:11:00Z Everything players loved from the original series has found its way into the Reignited Trilogy — all of the colorful worlds, zany characters and challenging bosses. The best kids video games of 2018 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Leaving aside Everett's self-consciously "zany" style, which never did much for me, it now seems strange that radio DJs ever occupied such dominant positions in the culture. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z As befits a comic book story, this galaxy is populated by a rainbow nation of humanoids with bright skin tones, coloured contact lenses, ornate body art, zany hairstyles and even zany eyebrow styles. Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Her story is quiet and moving; unfortunately, it gets lost in a novel jammed full of zany anecdotes. Flashback to the ’80s 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Consider Win McCarthy’s wonderfully zany constructions resembling architectural models, roughly made of foam board, cardboard, staples, tape, wire mesh and other ordinary materials. ‘Mirror Cells’ Asks: What Lights Up the Brain? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z A quick round of Googling ensues, as Team Selina discovers just how zany a tie would be. 'Veep' Season 4 Finale Recap: Ma'am Up 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Bob the Drag Queen, who’s a very zany performer, has a night at Industry. Gay New York: a guide to clubs, bars, drag shows and queer culture 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The money for this zany project comes from Burning Man itself. Armed with grommets, hard hats and burlap, Seattle's sober Free society builds a 'Mant Farm' at Burning Man 2010 2010-08-30T04:34:00Z "Another crazy half-hour with…" "And now, it's time to put on your wacky hats and…" The word "zany" once made an appearance. The Silence; That Mitchell and Webb Look; Shooting Stars 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z The show works in the zany vein of 30 Rock, making use of New York City archetypes. Musical Theater and Misanthropy 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The zany rock musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" will be part of Broadway history early next year. 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' to close in January 2010-12-01T19:49:00Z Here are two characters involved in zany Looney Toons-style antics, except, instead of only terrorising each other, are terrorised by various other ghastly characters. Your next box set: The Ren and Stimpy Show Unleashed 2011-02-11T08:00:01Z At best, it sets in motion some very agile clowning by a suitably zany cast. The Rep’s ‘Boeing Boeing’: Coffee, tea or sex farce? 2013-04-26T01:57:20Z This curious hybrid leans upon a curlicue that spreads like a cartoon hand, or a fleur de lys; the whole zany image depends upon it. Thomas Scheibitz – review 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z Nope, Scott has not decided to make a zany space comedy. Ridley Scott: ‘I wanted to scare the shit out of people. That’s the job’ 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z It Takes Two evens up novice and experienced gamers by introducing zany abilities that generally last a short time. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2021 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Maybe it will be a zany parenting sitcom. Up All Night Gets Re-Re-Remodeled: Is It Time to Tear It Down? 2012-12-07T14:42:46Z The zany comedy “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” returns for Season 2. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Dirk Gently’ and ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Like "The Fur Coat Club," "The Case of the Elevator Duck" has a zany sense of humor. The subversive joys of Joan Micklin Silver's little-known New York City short films 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z US actor James Earl Jones is to return to Broadway at the age of 83 in a zany comedy five years his junior. James Earl Jones returns to Broadway 2014-04-25T08:25:08Z That’s the dream, anyhow; results within your own zany situation comedy may begin to resemble a darker and extremely dry comedy. Perspective | How do we manage to get along in confined spaces? ‘One Day at a Time,’ perhaps. 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The use of playful colors, bold shapes and zany proportions was a rejection of the formality of midcentury modern Danish design. Move Over Squishy Furniture. Make Room for Wiggly Stuff. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z The downtown Seattle theater company will open the season with the zany black-comedy musical “Little Shop of Horrors,” about a florist-shop clerk and an insatiable plant that thrives on human blood. ACT 2014 season: Man-eating plant, ‘Vanya and Sonia’ 2013-08-14T00:10:37Z Part of why “Schitt’s Creek” can get away with its zanier stories is that it is anchored by the unshakable love between Johnny and Moira, the realest thing in the show’s universe. ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Brings Love, Canadian Style 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z And Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’s G minor Quartet, complete with klezmer-ish touches and a zany array of percussion in the so-called Gypsy finale, is an entertaining complement. Review: Works by Hélène Grimaud, Daniel Barenboim and Others 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The director Margot Bordelon draws out everything zany from the story’s incongruous juxtapositions while maintaining a fleet pace, and has cast the play with actors who straddle the “provocative” line gracefully. Review: In ‘Wilder Gone,’ the Pull of Soil, Soul and Preacher Sex 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Mumford & Sons keyboardist Ben Lovett thanked organizers for the festival, which included zany pastimes such as a tomato fight and laughter workshops as well as the music. Mumford & Sons bring Glastonbury jigging to an end 2013-07-01T00:19:44Z Riordan also loves to create zany, unforgettable characters to increase his books' comedy quotient. Crowning touches run riot in 'The Throne of Fire' 2011-05-07T01:58:32Z But, much like "Nathan for You," the original premise of the episode leads to some zany places. The delight of HBO's bizarre docuseries "How to With John Wilson" is found in the detours 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z As one of the early literary mash-up artists, he churned out zany best sellers like “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” and “Android Karenina.” In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Then a mysterious mask appears, giving him the ability to transform into a zany, devil-may-care alter ego. What’s on TV This Week: Willy Wonka and a ‘West Side Story’ Special 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z It's a fan-centered approach, McGrath says, and the combination of top talent, quirky categories and zany antics is a winning one for all involved. At MTV award shows, party matters more than prizes 2010-06-04T12:23:00Z Lewis sprang to fame in the 1950s as a zany comic performer in nightclubs, on television and in the movies, launching his act as the cross-eyed sidekick of the suave singer Dean Martin. Actor-comedian Jerry Lewis hospitalized in Las Vegas with infection 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Age: 11+ Propelled at great pace and embracing any number of dangers and disasters, this is a brave, zany and warm-hearted road story following two children's rollercoaster journey from Winnipeg to New York. The Guardian children's fiction prize 2010 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z One is its delightful star and co-creator, Rachel Bloom, who won a Golden Globe for her ability to make zany flakiness look so smart. Netflix and Blizzard: What to Watch During the Storm 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Much like Leary himself, the book is plenty of zany fun right until it’s not. On the Lam With Timothy Leary 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z It is tempting to assume that Professor Konstantin Novoselov will complete the picture by entering in a lab coat and with zany white hair. Art and science collide to reopen Whitworth gallery 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Informed by interviews with Minnesotans, “The Abominables” is a clever, zany and silly show about an adolescent hockey player whose ambitions are thwarted when a talented Yeti comes to town. ‘Brilliant,’ 41 and Lost to AIDS: The Theater World Asks Why 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Gingrich said he was sometimes "accused of language that's too strong," so he was "standing here editing" remarks to make sure he did not come across as "zany." Gingrich, Romney set sights on Obama 2011-12-16T06:10:00Z On one viewing, at least, it is a typically impenetrable Maddin film: zany one minute, pompous the next. Review: In ‘The Forbidden Room,’ a Submarine Full of Dark Imagery 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s time to bid farewell to this sketch comedy series, which has grown and mutated with the city itself across eight zany seasons. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Station 19’ and ‘Portlandia’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The 17th Air Guitar World Championship is one of several zany annual events in Finland, which include an international cellphone throwing contest, wife carrying and swamp football. US mimics take 2 top spots in air guitar contest 2012-08-24T21:51:08Z Jubilant pop-art influences and a zany sense of humor abounded in her work. BAM hosts a dazzling Patti Warashina retrospective 2013-07-11T21:05:52Z A brilliant and somewhat zany manifestation of youth, the opera offers many staging difficulties. Music Review: ‘Almira’ Ageless at Boston Early Music Festival 2013-06-13T21:05:28Z It's the sort in which tanned, carefree young folk run zanily around exotic locations, irritating no one, to an exuberantly brassy, ethnic soundtrack. The new Heineken advert 2013-05-25T05:00:00Z What happens to Mamet’s turkeys is a riot, and it’s effortless comedy because it mines the zany premise we know to be true. Perspective | Trump’s presidential turkey pardon felt like a reality show meets absurdist theater 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Nobody went to see Only the Brave, but who wouldn’t watch a fun little cartoon about the adventures of some zany firefighters? 2 Fast 2 Furious 2 Animated: in praise of the cartoon spin-off series 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z After recent runs Off Broadway and in London, the zany, gravity-defying Flying Karamazov Brothers will return to Seattle to play ACT Theatre, starting Feb. 2. Flying Karamazovs to juggle an ACT run 2012-01-24T20:02:04Z Khambatta Dance Company's "Modern Barbarism" turned a job interview into some zany gymnastic roughhousing. 'Spotlight on Seattle': performers go to town in dance city 2012-06-07T19:12:13Z Conventional wisdom dictates that a move from the hinterlands of 12:30 requires a show to rein in its zanier impulses, but Fallon rejects the notion. Jimmy Fallon, back home in NYC, can’t wait for ‘Tonight’ 2014-02-13T21:29:35Z Season 2 of this zany sitcom is filled with culture clashes and chaotic shenanigans, including the Derry Girls’ first encounter with Protestant boys. The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and More in August 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Kennedy lets loose a zany adventure in which a handsome badger is kidnapped by the miserable McGloone family, which keeps a cupboard of knives for every wretched occasion from “peeling penguins” to “dicing goldfish.” Turning Myths and Fairy Tales on Their Heads 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Nichols's black comedy is a blazingly original cocktail of styles, as if Brechtian polemic, Mike Leigh domestic comedy and zany, Pythonesque sketches are all competing for space in a single, cramped living room. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – review 2013-04-11T17:13:00Z We want zany nurse moms who shrug and pop prescription drugs and have affairs with their pharmacist buddies! "The Big C": Kooky, unsexy cancer 2010-08-14T23:01:00Z A visit to the current "Radio Free Starlight" show confirmed that ZinZanni is keeping up its uniquely zany, continental cachet. Seattle's Teatro ZinZanni woos wider audience with brunch, kids shows and more 2011-03-14T23:56:08Z The tone of this very smart movie is maniacally zany. Critic?s Notebook: Tribeca Turns 10: Films on Rebels, Rock and Real Life 2011-04-14T12:00:00Z Mr. Sanyal’s delivery of Warren’s bitter plaints about having to abandon his dream of creating video games to work at his father’s store are hyper-nerdy and too calculatedly zany. | 'After.' : In ?After.? by Chad Bekim, an Ex-Con Returns - Review 2011-09-22T02:01:10Z Mr. Porter infused zany personality to “The Lady Is a Tramp.” Review: Stars Pay Tribute to Frank Sinatra 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Clive Barnes of The Times called it “one of the zaniest shows to hit town in many a season.” Bob Elliott, of Bob and Ray Comedy Fame, Dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Parks and Recreation: Leslie and her staff come up with a zany new scheme to raise $100 a week to supplement unemployment checks for half the town. Style Invitational Week 1407: Your ad space (or space ad) here 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z But they also move the show further away from its quaint existential moments to a more uneven, and less interesting, zany kids’ cartoon model. ‘Strange Planet’ Review: An Alien’s Guide to Being Human 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Joan Rivers is an authority on red carpet interviews — and the veteran comedian says Williams was one of the best celebrities to chat with, both for his candor and his zany humor. Joan Rivers Remembers Robin Williams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Even though young people are dying in droves, the police dismiss it as one of those zany coincidences. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z His zany, madcap first novel, “Holy Cow,” which follows the publication last year of “X-Files” co-star Gillian Anderson’s first novel, is a seriously entertaining fable that doesn’t take itself too seriously. David Duchovny’s first novel is a witty, madcap fable starring troubled cow, a Jewish pig and a suave turkey 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Cleese, 77, was part of a genre of university-educated comedians who took British audiences by storm in the 1970s with an irreverent, zany style of humor. British actor John Cleese receives career award at Sarajevo Film Festival 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “The Tubs” was pure farce, a zany escapade in a gay bathhouse, and an unburdening for an audience wound up tightly in Watergate. Perspective | With Terrence McNally’s death, the theater has lost a voice of consummate wit and passion 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Irving's "blunt politicking for full understanding of gay and transgendered identity sits uncomfortably with his zany side", she argued. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-06-08T21:55:18Z A walking, talking compendium of botanical factoids and zany zingers, she encourages fans with her cheeky-but-serious prayer for foragers, “Don’t die!” and her trademark gaptoothed smile. How Black Foragers Find Freedom in the Natural World 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z And therein lies the genius: His art would be depressing if it weren't so joyfully zany, and it would be goofy if it weren't slightly melancholic. Review: James Martin's weird, wondrous works at Foster/White 2011-02-17T21:33:15Z The reunion, oiled with Scotch, leads to upsetting revelations, the airing of grievances, clumsy tendernesses, profane screams and forgiving ruminations that volley across the stage in a zany, often very funny cacophony. Plenty of bite in 'Of Good Stock,' but a soft heart lurks within 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In a housing project in 1960s Brooklyn, an elderly man shoots a drug dealer and sets a zany, fast-paced plot in motion. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Anchoring the program is Unsuk Chin’s zany “Acrostic Wordplay,” which includes texts by Lewis Carroll. Classical Music Listings for May 27-June 2 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In person, Feltham is more subdued than the zany character of his homemade videos. “I’m not leaving until we solve this mystery”: Meet the world’s foremost Loch Ness Monster hunter 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z And, no, it was not as if two zany teenagers had infiltrated the party. The Brant Brothers, the New Princes of the City 2012-06-20T20:17:45Z The moments of zany genius the show accesses are weighed down almost immediately by the grotesque. Always brash, “South Park” gets brave: From kids with guns to the P.C. principal, this was their most compelling — and self-aware — season 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The show was a warm, buttery glow to share with friends at the end of a Zoom-filled winter day in Manhattan, beckoning us with its particolored screen cuts and Robinson's zany charm. How I made my peace with "I Think You Should Leave" – a cringe comedy I was one reluctant to watch 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s supposed to be zany fun, but as with most of the rest of “Crisis,” Mr. Allen’s halfhearted direction doesn’t get it there. Review: ‘Crisis in Six Scenes,’ a Mere Ghost of Woody Allen Past 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z You have to be a little bit zany and fearless. 'My bus smells of wee!' Celebrities on their Glastonbury 2013 experience 2013-06-30T15:42:59Z Indeed, the series, an overt homage to the original Star Trek, has far fewer out-and-out jokes than one might expect, instead relying on a general tone of zany adventurousness to earn your attention. The 8 Best New Fall TV Shows You Should Watch 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z In the almost zany “Puzzle for Poppy” the couple solve the attempted murder of a St. Bernard. A summer book list like no other: Michael Dirda picks 11 hidden gems 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Her husband wanted to produce the picture, but knew that if his name showed up on the promotional materials, people would assume it was some kind of zany farce. 12 surprising facts about Mel Brooks on his 95th birthday 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z It also packs on another 52 minutes and three new songs, trades zany for demure and swaps vast animated land- and seascapes for soundstagey sets and screensavery imagery. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Review: The Renovations Are Only Skin Deep 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z But in the 1940s, his compositions, zany yet fastidious, were adopted as the soundtracks for Warner Brothers cartoons. Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham Presents ‘Manhattan Research’ 2013-08-09T20:14:42Z They were simply a bit flat, with nothing terribly original and none of the whimsical, zany prints that have made similar cuts feel fresh in the past. Move over Galliano, Lady Gaga makes debut 2011-03-03T16:17:00Z Just think of the way comics are described: Ross Noble is "madcap"; Robin Williams has "manic energy"; Lee Evans is "zany". Funny, haha: the comedy of mental health issues 2010-10-06T21:15:00Z The often zany and sometimes tricky-to-follow particulars of Mr. Morris’s pantomimic staging of the princess’s being cursed and disfigured are set to the music Tchaikovsky wrote to introduce Act Two and its kingdom of sweets. ‘The Hard Nut’ Review: A Refreshed Christmas Classic 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z But he has characterized the former speaker as "zany" for having endorsed mining the moon and lighting highways with mirrors in space. GOP debate: Gingrich assailed by foes 2011-12-16T02:33:00Z Even the zaniest elements of the story are interspersed with episodes of wincing cruelty. ‘Everybody’s Fool’ by Richard Russo: A wry, bittersweet sequel to ‘Nobody’s Fool’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z There have been a lot of sitcom analogies made in this election, especially by Mitt Romney, who has called Newt Gingrich “zany” and likened him to Lucy in the candy factory. The Morning After: To the Moon! 2012-01-27T15:29:37Z The script revisions made since San Diego clarify that “Meteor Shower” is intended to be a zany cautionary tale of repression. Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key lend star power to 'Meteor Shower,' but it's still space junk 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The clips — mostly obscure excerpts from dramas, cartoons and scientific and educational films — are seamlessly fused into a whoosh of images, many of them zany, all dating from the 1880s to the 1930s. Movie Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Men are strong and zany and ha-ha funny; women are sensitive and moral and wise, happy either to bed the men or to mother them. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Electric Coffin, the zany force behind “Future Machine,” is a hybrid art enterprise that has one foot in the commercial world and one in the fine-art world. Review: Electric Coffin’s Bellevue installation salvages the future 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z In a zanily tech-heavy twist, Jamal’s trauma counselor uses a virtual-reality crowd simulator to see how the singer will respond to the stress of performing in front of a large audience again. ‘Empire’ Season 3, Episode 8: Fashion Show 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The zany upstairs installation includes two semisatirical videos, graphics on the walls, branded beach products, and an imitation real-estate office for land repatriation. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z His Barry is wound so tight he hums — he’s like a slightly zanier Michael Shannon character — but Mr. Hader also shows you the light flicking on inside him for the first time. Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “Central Market” is not hypnotic Minimalism; the music bristles with contrasts and cross-purposes, sometimes zany, sometimes brooding. Music Review: It All Comes Through in the Mix, Even the Kazoos 2011-03-08T23:21:59Z The prime offender in this respect has been DreamWorks, whose zany output often seems soulless by comparison. Living dolls 2010-06-30T19:00:00Z The arc of “Wild Minds” is appropriately weird, full of high-flown aspirations and zany anecdotes. ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The result is to push satire, legitimately in my view, into the zany realm of farce. Prime of their life 2010-05-21T07:41:00Z Anything more than that -- stylists, white backdrops, beleaguered art photographers on ladders, grimacing through zany family moments -- is just unseemly. "Real Housewives of D.C.": Meet the new frenemies 2010-07-31T23:01:00Z Not quite as zany as the Ayres, perhaps, but it was quirky and baffling enough. In the Alps | Classical review 2010-03-19T22:50:00Z She is also a locally renowned action filmmaker, whose complicated emergence from retirement frames the director Martika Ramirez Escobar’s heartfelt, zany tribute to the magic of movies and the power of love. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Screenwriters don’t always give much thought to the feelings and aspirations of the zany co-worker, the flaky best friend, the low-level expendable criminal, the assistant D.A. or the doting or disapproving mother. The New Season Film: In Praise of Character Actors 2011-09-14T12:00:05Z In a half century at The New Yorker, Mr. Booth drew roughly a score of covers and hundreds of zany cartoons for the inside pages. George Booth, New Yorker Cartoonist of Sublime Zaniness, Dies at 96 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Accordingly, more and more foreign stars are making media appearances on the mainland — and learning that junkets and panel discussions here can have their own, slightly zany, China flavor. In China, foreign film junkets take on a funny flavor 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Critics were largely enthusiastic Wednesday, praising the show's zany fun and dynamic theatricality, and hailing star Andy Karl as a worthy successor to the movie's leading man, Bill Murray. London critics fall for 'Groundhog Day' musical 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z This devoted custodian of zany pop-jazz arcana reminds you of the primacy of anarchic humor in a musical style increasingly burdened with a weighty historical solemnity. Review: Buster Poindexter, a Rocker Who Wants to Be Taken Lightly 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Naird’s a competent, dedicated company man who only comes undone due to the zany incompetence all around him. Crash landing: Space Force is not the Trump satire we need right now 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z It may well be the zaniest show of the Christmas season. This week's new theatre 2012-12-01T00:06:18Z Providing continuity more or less throughout is Alex Mills’s prowling Cheshire Cat, who cuts a zany profile in his purple wig but occasionally displays normal feline behavior, such as playing with a ball of wool. Synetic’s sweeping, sinister ‘Alice’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The movie is punctuated with zany visual jokes. Review: In ‘Girl Asleep,’ Floating Through a Teenage Fantasia 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Of all the unsung heroes of the pandemic, I never expected to find inspiration in two zany, food-obsessed puppets. Netflix's zany "Waffles + Mochi" is helping heal my eating disorder 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z His comic vision of the world helped to guide British humour in a markedly zanier direction and his influence is certain to endure. Obituary: Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:18:49Z It was billed as something of a sequel to Mr. Kentridge’s zany and brilliant production of Shostakovich’s “The Nose,” co-commissioned by the Aix festival. ‘Winterreise’ Augmented by Kentridge Video Art 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Aiming for the endearingly zany, the new musical “Iowa” overshoots the runway, landing somewhere in the vicinity of complete inanity. Review: ‘Iowa’ Is a State of Absurdity at Playwrights Horizons 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The word "zany" derives from the Venetian "zanni", which was the term used for the servants in Commedia dell'arte. Z is for zanies 2012-06-05T13:46:31Z A cultural critic at a combustible moment, he used dark and zany comedy to skewer and ridicule. Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z That probably the only way to handle a series about people generally not known for being zany, or cool, or even normal. Smart Watch: "Valley of the Boom," "Corporate" returns, and "The Dictator's Playbook" on PBS 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Equally impassioned is Aaron Thier’s wonderfully zany new novel, “The World Is a Narrow Bridge.” Sex, Love and Religious Fervor Abound in Two New Novels 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The Other Guys needs to recapture the zany verve of Anchorman before he goes the criminally unamusing way of other Saturday Night Live alumni such as Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy. The Other Guys: star stand-ins or subs-standard? 2010-09-20T15:01:00Z Ms. Blossom was best known later in her career, from the 1980s on, as one of the most distinguished — and zaniest — solo performers in modern dance. Beverly Blossom, Solo Dancer With a ‘Voice,’ Dies at 88 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The plot, which tips its hat to Shakespeare’s comedies, is largely impenetrable, but Carter delivers its zany twists and turns with sweet-bitter affection. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Speaking of which: Mr. Colbert’s revival of his Comedy Central character and his zany turn as Flickerman reminded us that he’s TV’s best performance artist not currently running for president. Colbert Again in Character — as Himself — at the Conventions 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Beneath the zany fun, director Sarah E. Budge and the actors do well by the play's edgy language and cynical essence. 'Revenger's Tragedy' a sly gore-fest 2011-11-03T20:04:04Z Like its would-be lovers, “Wild Grass” chases itself in circles as it scrambles genres, examining seeing, thinking, remembering and imagining with a zany awareness. | 'Wild Grass': Alain Resnais?s Film of Anarchic Imagination 2010-06-24T23:40:00Z Even with its lean running time, the film gets bogged down in a pileup of zany characters and surreal, burlesque asides. ‘The World Is Yours’ Review: Isabelle Adjani Revitalizes the Comic Caper 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Cross-dressing surprises and zany plot twists add to the fun. Review: 'Bunty Berman Presents' a Bollywood spoof 2013-05-10T00:01:09Z They trust me because a lot of the zany one-liners are straight from me because that’s the homework I did. From bingeing to unpleasant characters to Sharpie fumes, dramatic actors tell all 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mostly, we admire a composite of his zany public appearances. Bill Murray, Internet Jester 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z But if you love that stuff, well, this is definitely zany. Review | Fantasy noir combines the best of two genres. These are the books that do it well. 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Glover is back this year, with his stiffest competition coming from Bill Hader, whose portrayal of the zany, emotionally stunted titular hitman was one of the year’s freshest. Emmys 2018: our predictions - who will win and who should win 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Nail-biting and, thanks to some incredible bedroom eyes from Mr. Guttenberg, zany. The essential Curtis Hanson: 10 films that showcase the late director’s versatile strengths 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The reality TV crew was also on hand to capture every zany moment. Reinventing Betsey Johnson 2012-12-19T23:32:46Z But whatever happened to the simple idea of the innocently zany finding love? Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z A zany video posted for the new year saw him playing the recorder deliberately badly, which generated more than 10,000 likes. He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z She let its hem trail, its gossamer fabric contrasting zanily with her white canvas sneakers. The Star of ‘A Fantastic Woman’ Picks a Few Come-Hither Dresses 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The storefront colors were zanier, the clothes tighter, the music louder. Seeing Africa by Road 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z One gallery wall is covered by a gridded arrangement of zany faces drawn in color in different mediums and styles, including Cubist, Expressionist, Pop and psychedelic, on brown paper bags. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z The ultra-romantic ballad “Stella By Starlight” was stripped of its dreaminess and became a platform for Mr. Goldblum’s zany deconstruction of the lyrics. Jeff Goldblum Plays Jazz at the Café Carlyle 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Purloined Scotch, a concussion, an ill-timed parrot: Morgan drops plenty of zany twists into readers’ laps, and the latter part of the novel takes on a speculative dimension. 13 New Books Coming in July 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z It starts with a massacre and soon turns into a zany cross-dressing caper complete with Marilyn Monroe, millionaires real and fake, musical numbers and nonstop gags. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z You reckoned it would be the perfect festival garment to complement your zany personality. The new festival tribes – a fashion guide to summer 2013 2013-05-10T23:00:08Z Their zany names — Red Ripper, Big Boy, Stick-up, Pole Cat and Dixielee — are a map of micro-regional preferences, in which gardeners and farmers selected for varieties that suited their particular climates and tastes. Field peas: A summertime classic throughout the South They are prime examples of the zany work that was being produced by the San Francisco underground at the time. Perils, Platforms and a Prize 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z For the better part of the twentieth century, the caricaturist Al Hirschfeld captured show business in all its swooping, zany glory. Cultural Clicks: Frida Kahlo’s Lovers and Parenting Advice from Metallica’s James Hetfield 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The avalanche of shenanigans gets increasingly zany, but not too unwieldy. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: short on drama but lots of fun – first look review 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The result is “Paradise Lost” but with more gangsters: a zany interrogation of religious concepts in a wholly secular context. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z But there is a difference between being a bit zany and suffering mental health problems. Robin Williams and the link between comedy and depression 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The ultimate link in this zany chain of connection is forged when Morris, by chance, runs into Steven, whom he hasn’t seen in years, and is welcomed as a long-lost pal. Movie Review: ?The Trouble With Bliss? Is a Number of Things 2012-03-22T22:46:58Z She directs her latest work with a fine sense of pace, carefully ratcheting ordinary events to zany heights and creating madcap scenes enriched with wild-eyed, panicky conversations between the two women. Review: 'Fly Me To the Moon' is a soaring farce 2012-09-13T00:53:08Z In “Danny Collins,” Al Pacino injects a zany charge of adrenaline into the title role of a rich, dissolute pop star belatedly seeking redemption for four decades of excess and wasted talent. Review: Al Pacino in ‘Danny Collins’ Plays a Dissolute Pop Star 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In between, she treats us to a series of goofy scenarios, including a particularly zany one without dialogue, in which the dancers become life-size Playmobil figures with their helmet-like wigs and stiff limbs. Review: ‘Drama’ Contains Many Things. But Drama Isn’t One. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z “It’s like the great episodes of ‘Friends’ or ‘Cheers’ — the teen pregnancy episode or the drug episode — where things turn serious, but then suddenly they do something zany again.” An Operatic Rarity Picks Up Where Mozart and Rossini Left Off 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Their fast, fresh show at the Bathhouse Theater is zany, sharp and tight. Seattle comedy troupe The Habit bounces back 2011-09-10T17:22:04Z He has some of the zaniest lines, and Sprouse is delightfully game for all of them. ‘My Fake Boyfriend’ Review: Deepfake Dating 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z You sense that Carrey has always longed for a Groundhog Day; a high-concept movie packed with universal truths that allows him to be sincere and zany in equal measure. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z A spectacle of songs and sex that is at once zany and erotic, Underwater Love puts an unforgettable new spin on the Japanese tradition of softcore “pink” films. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z This time Mr. Jacobsen and company made it to the end and then moved from the sublime to the, well, perhaps not quite ridiculous, but certainly zany. Music Review: In a Rite of Late Summer, Naumburg Concerts Finish 2011-08-23T22:58:52Z “If not for zany schemes, Atlantic City would still be a sand dune,” Nick Paumgarten wrote in his 2015 story “The Death and Life of Atlantic City.” What Happened to Atlantic City? 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Suspense builds through words, pictures and zany comics. Best children’s books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Costume designer Leesa Evans has a lot of fun, the "22" clothes have their own zany appeal. '22 Jump Street' pokes its R-rated finger at everything — hilariously 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z This clever, playful show, which opened at 54 Below on Tuesday evening, is her most ambitious adventure yet in zany, erudite musical biography. Nellie McKay Plays the Drag King Billy Tipton at 54 Below 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z But “Love & Air Sex” has a spontaneity and cheeky attitude lacking in Mr. Efron’s film, along with spirited naturalistic performances that infuse the standard rom-com formula with a zany vitality. Movie Review: Searching for the Real Thing in ‘Love & Air Sex’ 2014-02-06T23:44:04Z The humour here is zany, there are misses as well as hits, but it's an entertaining romp through some big ideas and some teensy, ticklish details. The Detective Show 2010-09-30T20:45:00Z “When you look at some of the white college representations, it’s often of the ‘Animal House’ variety — the sort of crazy, zany stuff. H.B.C.U.s Have a Spirit All Their Own. Pop Culture Is Paying Attention. 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z One of these images at the New Museum, “The Insane Queen,” is, in its zany way, almost respectful of her. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z The zany Lil Wayne keeps his head shrouded in, alternately, a cloud of smoke and cosmic matter. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “Impastor’s” cleverest lines and riffs on religiosity are somewhat overwhelmed when the show gives in to temptation and becomes a zany caper. ‘The Jim Gaffigan Show’: A sunnier ‘Louie’ in the form of a stale Hot Pocket 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z This is "you go, I go" for the cinematic, over-the-top action crowd, the pause of a turn just a chance to tee up the next zany acrobatic spectacle. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Is a Strategy Masterpiece 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Waititi plays a child’s zany projection of Adolf Hitler as an imaginary friend. Soldiers, survivors and lovable rogues: the new wave of Jewish cinema 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z To make this kind of zany, ambitious, intermittently coherent jumble still, for now, requires the human brain. ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Algorithm and Blues 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z In 1938 he was hired to help write and appear in the union’s musical show “Pins and Needles,” and he soon began to develop his signature comedy style of zany improvisation. Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Plankton "wants to put everyone on their worst behavior when they should be on their best behavior, and zany mayhem ensues," Kenny said. SpongeBob Christmas special goes stop-motion 2012-11-21T21:24:11Z My survey made me realize that, at heart, I’m a purist — albeit not immune to the appeal of the zanier specimens. Doughnuts in New York City from Carpe Donut NYC to Pies 'N' Thighs 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Foss takes on nothing less than the great European heritage in his zany deconstructions of works by Handel, Scarlatti and Bach. Review: American Symphony Orchestra’s George Perle Centennial Tribute 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z A borscht belt “Blackadder,” the series trafficked in the zaniest of sight gags. Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest 2013-07-19T18:43:48Z Morty, a shy and cautious kid by nature, and his cynical genius grandfather, Rick, travel the universe, collecting near-death experiences and relationships with many zany alien characters along the way. 14 of the best animated shows for adults from the last decade 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z “It was always inspiring to see someone who was so zany onstage, and yet so good in more dramatic films,” said Sachs, who lives in Sherman Oaks. Robin Williams: Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, Improv pay tribute 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z A zany piece of furniture called the Cabbage Chair looks modishly high end but is strictly D.I.Y.: Art Review: Thinking Green ? Design Triennial at Cooper-Hewitt 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z No, yes it's definitely the quarantine . . . but I've reached that point on the extended social distancing spectrum where I've realized how much I've missed the zany exploits of fictional rich, entitled people. HBO's "The Undoing" does the incredible: Make us nostalgic for lifestyles of the rich and bothered 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Those little updates are kind of corny or zany or kind of eye-rolling at times. My phone helped me fall in love with books again 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Ms. McKay embellished her performances with witty asides and zany costumes. Music Review: At the Broadway Cabaret Festival, Kooks and Cutups 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z His sinner may not touch the deep, dramatic disaffection that the actor displayed in his Oscar-nominated portrayal in "Lost in Translation" or the sheer zany delight of his roguish weatherman in "Groundhog Day." Hallelujah, 'St. Vincent' lets Bill Murray run amok 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Their book also makes it almost natural for Owen’s ebullient Buddy to burst into song and zany dance. ‘Elf’ is one jolly musical | Theater review 2012-12-07T21:40:05Z Why can’t her panicky antics simply serve the show’s zany momentum, without unleashing existential crises or darker themes? Perspective | Sure, ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ could reach for more importance, but that’s not why it’s here 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The zany comic-actor, a veteran of over 45 films during a career spanning five decades, is due back in the United States on July 4, she said. Jerry Lewis briefly hospitalized in Sydney 2011-06-25T01:21:26Z Mr. Grooms has been hailed at times as a zany genius and at others dismissed as so much kitsch. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z This zany joie de vivre awakens Fred’s dormant lust for life. ‘Elsa & Fred’ Stars Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Yesterday, landscape architect and designer Ken Smith unveiled Fenway Deity, a psychedelic inflatable pendant that accents the façade of the historic building like a far-out necklace, a zany contrast to the museum’s traditional art collection. Ken Smith’s Fenway Deity Is Unveiled at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But looking back on it now I think I did just as much because it seemed like a different, zany thing to do. My gay green card marriage 2013-04-17T00:00:00Z The Los Angeles Times said Mr. Wimmer had encased “the zany saga in an enchanted aura by couching it entirely in the stream-of-consciousness prose hallowed by James Joyce and disciples.” Dick Wimmer, Whose Persistence Got Him Published, Dies at 74 2011-05-25T03:06:29Z The last time Salon cracked wise at the offerings listed among Oprah’s Favorite Things or the zanier items in Goop’s holiday gift guide was in 2019. From Goop to Oprah, this year's gift guides may signal the end of the world 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z But several episodes have since been colorized over the years to further bring the zany, pioneering sitcom to life. What’s on TV Friday: ‘I Love Lucy’ and ‘Split’ 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Today “Zazie” seems a little too studiously zany to work as well as it once did. Video: A Tragic Actress?s Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming 2011-07-17T01:23:02Z In Mr. Pacino’s tempered wild-man performance — one of his strongest in over a decade — Simon rages at the dying of the light with a zany ferocity, largely avoiding self-pity. In ‘The Humbling,’ Al Pacino Plays an Aging Performer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Sullivan evolved from a zany, modern-day Lorelei Lee into an interpreter of subtlety and substance, and Ms. Akers from a remote, statuesque figure into a singer of great sensitivity and feeling. Critic?s Notebook: Oak Room at Algonquin Hotel Closes 2012-02-04T01:28:32Z His personal life reads like a zany parody of a Christian moral life. An atheist in the White House? It could happen, thanks to Donald Trump 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z TV’s most openly zany series, this cop show refused to edit out a single loopy pun, or to attempt a goal so insignificant as making basic sense. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The subject may be arcane, but the treatment is zany. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Cleese, 77, was part of a genre of university-educated comedians who took British audiences by storm in the 1970s with an irreverent, zany style of humor. British actor John Cleese receives career award at Sarajevo Film Festival 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z But what I observed when I visited the set last week is already bearing fruit: Samantha Bee is a different kind of host, channeling a kind of zany righteousness that hooks viewers right in. Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” nails it: Your new must-see late-night show takes down the GOP, Hillary and Bernie, and her “woman-ness” in hilarious debut 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Trying to drum up fan enthusiasm, he started experimenting with zany promotions, inspired by the showmanship of P.T. ‘Baseball Players Don’t Dance’? The Savannah Bananas Beg to Differ. 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Before “The Partridge Family,” Mr. Madden was part of the ensemble on the “Laugh-In” comedy series, sipping and sometimes spitting milk along with joining in the show’s zany sketches and crazy jokes. Dave Madden, of ‘The Partridge Family,’ Dies at 82 2014-01-17T01:57:02Z Seattle's four-week Moisture Festival, now in its ninth year, opened Thursday with a zany, feisty lineup of comedians, jugglers, magicians, singers and aerialists, plus an act or two impossible to classify. Seattle's Moisture Festival wards off that soggy feeling 2012-03-16T16:55:07Z He also subdues his zany style for the show in order to avoid distracting from the bakers. How Noel Fielding Went From a Hedonist to a Host of ‘The Great British Baking Show’ 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z That situation may be rectified, if the zany trailer for “Shazam!” is any indication. The Best and Worst Movie Trailers From Comic-Con 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Isherwood captures the zany spirit of the play and the Broadway-caliber performances in his review, but misses an important point throughout. Review: ‘Broadway Bounty Hunter’ Stars Annie Golden as Herself 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z This funny but frenzied bit of business, like much else in Mr. Goldstein’s production, feels like the kind of zany stunt the class clown would come up with. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z They do a zany dance with truncheons and he runs about with a paper aeroplane; there's some deliberately bad security-themed hip-hop and curious bursts of Shakespeare and Tommy Cooper. Discombobulated ? review 2011-08-09T11:28:02Z “Oh, a chap who, a black fellow who does a lot of zany designs?” Art: Rashaad Newsome, Blending Hip-Hop and Heraldry 2011-10-20T20:08:10Z Ray Stevens is known for singing zany hits like “The Streak,” but also sentimental ones like “Everything Is Beautiful.” Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens to join Country Hall of Fame 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The evening’s parade of talent was led off by Ms. Sullivan, zany and glamorous, singing Cole Porter’s “I’m Throwing a Ball Tonight.” Music Review: Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short Tribute at Town Hall 2013-05-17T20:59:23Z But a delightfully zany and touching novel, "The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise," by the British writer Julia Stuart, has jumped the queue to take readers on a fictional romp through the Tower's realm. 'The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise': a Monty Python-esque tale of life in the Tower of London 2010-09-01T22:47:00Z Zambello kept sight of the biting darkness under the zany humor, never more than in the brilliant staging of Cunegonde’s aria “Glitter and Be Gay.” Glimmerglass season shines with vibrant vocal performances 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Look to the background, where Chao is acting her heart out, deserving much more than to be the supporting, zany best friend. It's time for Zoë Chao, rom-com sidekick, to take the lead 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Martin, the comedian, broke new ground in the 1970s when he turned a zany stand-up act with a banjo and popular appearances on television's "Saturday Night Live" into a Hollywood career. Steve Martin novel probes New York art world 2010-11-24T13:35:00Z Toward the college years of Boy Meets World, things got increasingly zany, for lack of a better word, particularly with Will’s character. Girl Meets World: An Interview with Ben Savage 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z That selection, which goes on display next week in an in-store boutique, is supplemented by an online “festival edit” and by an entire bank of zanily exuberant Lexington Avenue windows. Add Festival Season to the Fashion Calendar 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Welty’s writing, wry and linguistically zany, was the only version of “South” I knew, and it made me eager to go there. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z It's hard to say exactly who the audience is for the zany curio "Mortdecai." 'Mortdecai' mostly hits its madcap mark with zany Johnny Depp 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Unapologetically low-budget, “Black Friday” makes great use of prosthetics, practical effects and some very game actors to deliver its zany scares. ‘Black Friday’ Review: Killer Sales Bring Killer Customers 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z His can-do, take-charge character is in continual zany contrast to his surreal surroundings. 'Keyhole': a mad Maddin adventure 2012-06-14T20:44:05Z It was not always the ones with bold jackets or zany titles, as I somehow expected. Picture Book Biographies to Dazzle a Fact-Loving Child 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “Opposites Attract,” which incorporates vintage photographs, is especially zany and amusing. Strange critters: In July, Seattle art galleries contain menageries 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z But as the atmosphere is shattered by the zany sexual soul of Royal Highness, you start to question whether replacing the intuitive Verve with muso guitarists that grimace during shrieking solos will offer salvation. RPA and the United Nations of Sound 2010-06-16T20:29:00Z The mad God of Walford originally wanted the zany saga to reach a festive climax next Christmas Day, typically. EastEnders is not real 2011-01-10T00:05:03Z If they were merely a harmless joke, maybe everyone could look past it and enjoy the passionate and zany speeches. The Golden Globes Were Too Big to Fail 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z It's fun, it's light, it's zany, it's crazy. Rainn Wilson opens up about life, death, "Blackbird" and being "#blessed" 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z She opened up in the attendant story about her alter-ego's zany outfits on "The Mindy Project" and how Hollywood affects her own look. Mindy Kaling wants to be Photoshopped: 'I'm like everyone else' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Actor and director Terry Jones, a founding member of Britain's zany Monty Python comedy team, has been diagnosed with a form of dementia that restricts his capacity to speak, his representative said. 'Monty Python' actor-director Terry Jones diagnosed with dementia 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The game's zany writing and voice acting alternate between corny and hilarious. Review: 'Lego City' builds fun for Wii U 2013-03-14T14:45:15Z Willfully zany would be a more apt description. Movie Review: ?Jesus Henry Christ,? With Toni Collette and Michael Sheen 2012-05-03T22:46:26Z Directed by Anthony Fabian, “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” trades in a similar kind of British coziness as the “Paddington” movies, though it’s not as zany or funny. ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ Review: High Fashion for the Humble 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z It was show business all the way, a zany facade for songs that plunge into trauma and confusion and come out strutting. Music Review: Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lam? 2010-09-19T22:31:00Z These costumes, fun and zany as they are, with their frothy layers, checkerboard patterns, high turtlenecks and graphic prints, overwhelm rather than enhance. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z They brought the piece into sharp relief and communicated their own delight in it, particularly in the fifth and last movement, a zany, increasingly tangled Polka. How a composer helped put his 78th birthday on the map 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z On the surface, Rick and Morty is a zany science fiction cartoon that often walks the line between hilarity and darkness. Dan Harmon on the Future of Rick and Morty and That Community Movie 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The program notes for “Lucky Stiff” unabashedly proclaim it “a zany piece of fluff,” and Actors Co-op's revival of this 1988 musical farce pursues that objective with single-minded intensity. The humor is deadpan, or just dead, in 'Lucky Stiff' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z It projects a zany happiness that nothing else in the show would lead you to expect. Art Review: ‘Judith Bernstein: HARD’ at the New Museum 2012-12-20T23:01:31Z Sabrina McCarthy, the president of Perseus Distribution Client Services, described Carrey, known for his zany characters and comedy routines, as the perfect person to write a children's book. Comedian Jim Carrey to publish children's book 2013-05-30T20:11:08Z All the while they get distracted by zany side-quests, pal around with odd sidekicks and preen narcissistically. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Widening her saucer eyes and wearing a half-smile, a zany hat tilted just so, she projected an ebullient va-va-voom that camouflaged the vigilance of a performer on whom nothing is lost. Music Review: K T Sullivan and Larry Woodard at Laurie Beechman Theater 2012-06-21T21:51:41Z The musical, though, is an ungainly beast, by turns zany and sentimental. Review: Billy Crystal Carries the Tune in ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The tropical climes nagged him as much as his wife Lynne, whose zany behavior, like cursing out the Duke of Edinburgh, had turned them both into social pariahs. 2010-01-07T14:25:00Z The bright, cheerful television show is punctuated with jokes and zany cutaways, its characters constantly coining terms for ideas and experiences universal to a certain age group. How I Met Your City, the Real One 2011-02-25T20:09:52Z Great idea, lousy execution: "Iron Sky" boasts one of the zaniest premises in recent memory, and somehow manages to squander most of its potential. 'Iron Sky': Out-of-this-world Nazi plot lands in chaos 2012-08-23T20:57:07Z In a New York Times interview earlier this month, Romney suggested that Gingrich's policy ideas made him too "zany" to be president of the United States. Romney presents "Top Ten" on David Letterman show 2011-12-20T02:47:12Z That’s too bad because Carey eventually arrives at a profound and poignant story, though it has little to do with the zany car race. Review | Peter Carey’s new novel is a strange ride through Australia’s racist past — and present 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z She sets a fast pace that is definitely needed to keep this kind of zany piece afloat. 'Pitch Perfect 2' brings more lowbrow fun 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z An international show business presence since her role in the zany 1958 Broadway revue “La Plume de Ma Tante,” she proudly exhibited Marlene Dietrich legs. Music Review: Yvonne Constant?s Gallic Accents at Metropolitan Room 2010-05-25T22:43:00Z Cute, zany animal antics on TikTok may be the only thing holding civilization together at this point. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Whatchamacallit, owned by Hershey’s, is expanding its “wacky, crazy, crunchy, chewy” brand by releasing another equally layered and equally zany confection in July. Whatchamacallit candy bar maker asking fans to help name its newest creation 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “And, in its zanily unpretentious way, it is certainly that.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘After Life’ and ‘Tin Star’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z For technical assistance, Mr. Reich consulted engineers from Experiments in Art and Technology, a nonprofit group capitalizing on Cold War funding for technological research and the countercultural yen for zany investigations. Steve Reich at 80: Still Plugged In, Still Plugging Away 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z If it was zany, it was also heartfelt. Scene City: Honoring Pedro Almod?var ? Scene City 2011-11-16T21:08:03Z His staging takes Rossini's repertoire of musical gesture, full as it is of sheer zaniness, and turns it into an equally zany visual experience, while illuminating the characters' puppetlike status. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Barber' really cuts it 2011-01-17T21:39:14Z And while billionaires who venture into space, like Bezos, often wax poetic about universal ideals of "human progress," they fail to articulate who, exactly, these zany space adventures are progress for. You can join Jeff Bezos on his 11-minute space trip for just $2.8 million! 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z But that was just a detour from the zany. Charlie Callas, Zany Comedian, Dies at 86 2011-01-28T18:59:38Z And where will be the clowns, their individualized make up, their zany antics? The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Thereafter, “Love Sick Love” is a standard escape-from-captivity movie with an overlay of zany humor, as Norman tries to make nice while Dori and her grandparents force him to celebrate one holiday ritual after another. Movie Review: ‘Love Sick Love,’ Directed by Christian Charles 2013-04-18T22:57:11Z It’s zany, demented, surreal, strangely dark — anything but charming. Music Review: ‘La Périchole,’ by New York City Opera, at City Center 2013-04-22T21:59:38Z Scholastic’s educational and wildly entertaining ’90s science show helped the medicine go down with a spoonful of zany psychedelia. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Berlin Station’ and ‘Good Behavior’ 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z McDonagh's zanies are grotesques devoid of decency or basic deductive skills. 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore': Brutal slapstick, with a clear message 2010-10-25T23:39:00Z With their zany patterns and jolting colors, these household items look dolled up and ready to party; they seem more suitable for framing than for trampling underfoot. Art Review: ?Rags to Richesse,? Moroccan Rugs at Cavin-Morris 2010-07-22T22:39:00Z “Ruby Sparks,” directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the team behind “Little Miss Sunshine,” has the same zany and sweet tone laced with just enough hardheaded wisdom to keep it grounded in psychological truth. Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z And there are two designated zany moments: the a cappella group Straight No Chaser backing him in “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” and the Muppets cackling along on “All I Need Is Love.” New Music Releases of the Season, From Jazz to Gospel 2012-11-22T20:23:16Z The house's zany, brainy designer Dai Fujiwara said he'd looked for inspiration back to the summers of his youth, which he spent his splashing around in rivers and streams, unsuccessfully stalking trout. Paris menswear designers break out Jesus sandals 2010-06-24T21:37:00Z It’s essentially “E.T.” with a sloppier, zanier touch, and it’s set in urban Vietnam as opposed to a sleepy California neighborhood. ‘Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy’ Review: Boy Meets Alien 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Jack must up his game to keep his girl in the zany plot that moves from the neon lights of Vegas to the shores of sun-drenched Hawaii. 'Honeymoon in Vegas' ups ante for glitz in new Broadway version 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z James liked the simple illustrations and the zany game of imaginative one-upmanship. H.O.R.S.E by Christopher Myers - review 2012-12-06T12:00:00Z The snippets — mostly obscure excerpts from dramas, cartoons and scientific and educational films — are seamlessly fused into a whoosh of images, many of them zany, all from the 1880s to the 1930s. Review: ‘Dreams Rewired,’ a Futuristic Look at the Past 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Reviewing “Walking Happy” in The New York Times, Walter Kerr called Mr. Wisdom “a zany original with ruffled hair, rueful eyes and an altogether irresistible appeal.” Norman Wisdom, Funnyman, Dies at 95 2010-10-06T05:14:00Z After graduation, Wolfe’s newfound creativity was stymied by her first male composition instructor, who discouraged her from writing a zany work for chamber ensemble and trapeze artists. A MacArthur for the Composer Julia Wolfe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “Penguins of Madagascar” The zany quartet of Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private were the breakout stars of the 2005 hit animated film “Madagascar.” “Drew! Barry! More Power!”: The 10 best penguin movies ever made 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z He sometimes shows up in costume as a zany “paint creature” with a multicolored brain, a trunk nose and pockets full of art supplies. For Rohingya Survivors, Art Bears Witness 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z “I’m not looking for anything really zany or new,” she said. Fashion? They’re Over It 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Every track is dizzying, eventful and a little zany. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z They know I have no intention of moving right now, nor do they, but that doesn't stop us from trawling online listings, searching for zany wallpaper, clawfoot tubs and, more recently, conversation pits. That sexy "SNL" Zillow commercial reflects how many of us are dealing with our sad housing reality 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes their zany play-calls have gone awry, like in the fourth quarter of their win over the Beavers. How WSU Cougars OC Ben Arbuckle keeps players engaged with play-calling 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z This year’s book is balanced between zany items — most hula hoops spun simultaneously on stilts — to serious science, like heaviest starfish. Longest, fastest, zaniest: Guinness World Records celebrates the ‘crazy, fun, inspiring’ 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z TIFF’s legendarily zany midnight lineup is packed with a cornucopia of genre-traversing offerings, but “When Evil Lurks” promises to serve up the purest shocks and scares of them all. The 8 movies we're most excited to see at the Toronto Film Fest 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z From a scientific standpoint, all this money seems wasted on a zany quest that is akin to the search for Bigfoot or Atlantis. How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z The movie’s zany, self-ironic production design suggests that Gerwig is not only well versed in feminism but also in camp, an aesthetic sensibility that values artifice, exaggeration and parody. Opinion: Yes, Barbie is a feminist — just don't ask her creators 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Joseph Pedott, whose decades of commercials for the zany plantlike figurines known as Chia Pets launched them into the pantheon of American consumer culture, died on June 22 in San Francisco. Joseph Pedott, 91, Dies; Made Chia Pets an ‘as Seen on TV’ Sensation 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Johnson cultivated a zany style, reveling in stunts that often went awry, like the time he got stuck on a zipline promoting the 2012 London Olympics. How Trump and Johnson, divisive populists with many similarities, ended up on different paths 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z So it was only natural that when he started making zany, irreverent YouTube videos, his language of choice was Russian. Ukraine’s Social Media Stars Rethink How They Wield Their Influence 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The company, started by two former hippies, has built a reputation on serving up zany ice cream flavors like Half Baked and Cherry Garcia while unapologetically supporting social justice causes. Ben & Jerry’s scoopers take key step to form company’s first union 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Long before final ballots were turned in, the Oscar-night dominance of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” once dismissed as too zany for stuffy academy sensibilities, had hardened into destiny. The Oscars' best picture is a great milestone in search of a great movie 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z It is an inventive cross between an indie drama about an immigrant family, a zany sci-fi adventure and a superhero action film. Ke Huy Quan: From forgotten child star to Oscars hero 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Kennedy has emerged as a favorite of grassroots conservatives, winning them over with his zany one-liners and Southern twang, and willingness to take the fight to President Biden and his liberal allies. Sen. Kennedy drops “truth” bombs, laments “common sense is illegal” in D.C. 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The Shriners would become known for their philanthropy — funding children’s hospitals — but they would also be known for their zanier side: donning fezzes and zipping around in tiny cars. Perspective | In June 1923, Washington was transformed into the Middle East 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z “It could win best picture and it’s the zaniest idea out there,” Lord says. ‘Cocaine Bear’ is here to strike a blow to staid Hollywood 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The creators pretend as though “Avenue Q” and “The Book of Mormon,” two musicals that raised the bar for zany social skewering, never happened. Review: Why the new intergalactic musical 'Come Get Maggie' is light-years from being ready 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z This Shakespeare for Dummies approach, smartly circumscribed, rescues the laughter by vividly mapping out the importance of this zany subplot. Review: A graceful 'Much Ado About Nothing' — in all its madcap zeal — shines at A Noise Within 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z You may recall that zany audit — quote, unquote — of presidential ballots in Maricopa County, which included an eagle-eyed examination for traces of bamboo — evidence, it was said, of Chinese meddling in the 2020 election. Column: In Arizona, a crackpot gets promoted and underscores the danger to democracy 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Like Mona, Greta copes with her past with zany jokes; also like Mona, she’s a working-class character navigating a social world that touts an affected, if also sometimes affecting, back-to-the-earth ethos. Review | ‘Big Swiss’ is a sharp wellness satire and coming-of-age story 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Thailand, Norway, Denmark and Spain have zany monarchies, too. Your Wednesday Briefing: China’s Dual Crises 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z You really nailed the zany element of TV infomercials, but in an uncomfortable, uncanny Valley way. How 'M3GAN' turned a 10-year-old David Guetta and Sia hit into spooky killer-robot music 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z But if death got the last word, Walters had the nation’s ear in the meantime, she made clear, with amusement, as she recalled the zany Broadway hit “Spamalot,” based on a Monty Python film. Barbara Walters, dead at 93, was cultural fixture, TV icon 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Here’s a selection of our recaps, both zany and sober. Your Friday Briefing: Israel’s New Government 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z New England rallied to take the lead before the Raiders scored two touchdowns in the final 32 seconds of the zany 30-24 victory topped by Chandler Jones’ return of the Patriots’ ill-advised lateral. Injuries at guard a big problem for Carr, Raiders’ offense 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z His work tends toward the disastrous with notes of zany: cheerful drawings of accidents and executions, merry sculptures of Molotov cocktails and banana peels. Public art in Seattle’s light rail stations has a deeper backstory than you’d think 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Perhaps the trick is to transform the material into a zany romp? Review: If the Razzies included theater, 'Invincible’ would be one of 2022's big winners 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z While “The Masked Singer” might have seemed an odd last hurrah for Alley, the actor explained she had good reason for joining the zany singing competition. 'The Masked Singer' was Kirstie Alley's last TV gig. Here's how it's paying tribute 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Late TV star Kirstie Alley made her final appearance on the small screen earlier this year as a contestant on Fox’s zany singing competition series “The Masked Singer.” Kirstie Alley had a good reason for making her final TV appearance on 'Masked Singer' 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z And Last: God knows regular quipping’s not very challenging, but making you use eXactly twenty-six words, each one having a different first letter, is just plain zany. Style Invitational Week 1516: Questionable Journalism 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z And for those who have everything, a slightly zany gift can be great. Holiday Rituals 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The movie’s plot is fanciful, but “the world in which it is set is the zany reality, and it’s just so good,” Bianculli said. ‘My Favorite Year,’ comic salute to TV’s golden age, hits 40 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z When Amazon introduced new devices this fall in an annual event, it was notably more restrained than past years when it had featured zany products like a sticky note printer and $1,000 home robot. Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z They feared Trump-backed candidates viewed as zany or less preferable to moderates might actually win as part of a red wave. Democrats’ decision to interfere in GOP primaries pays off 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The plot involves an absurd vengeance scheme and a cast of zany characters while managing to explore epistemology, friendship, obscene wealth, ethics and the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Will Percival Everett’s 23rd novel finally bring him fame? He really doesn’t care. 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z George Booth drew hundreds of zany cartoons and roughly a score of covers for The New Yorker over half a century. Time Warp 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Playing the zany yet villainously corrupt “Mayoress” Cora Hoover Hooper, Lansbury had no interest in reprising a version of her character from “The Manchurian Candidate.” Appreciation: Angela Lansbury, an instantly recognizable and readily transformable talent 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Best extras: All of the digital goodies are found on the included Blu-ray version of the film and start with the welcomed optional commentary track featuring a solo effort by the always zany Mr. Waititi. ‘Thor: Love and Thunder - Cinematic Universe Edition’ 4K Ultra HD movie review 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z A zany Week 1 gave way to a Week 2 in which teams built huge leads and then lit them on fire. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 2: No lead is safe, and we could all use a drink 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Even the zaniest of football fans, those in the SEC, are more devotees than connoisseurs. Georgia can break your spirit. Just look at South Carolina’s empty stands. 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s home to the Los Angeles Breakfast Club, a zany organization founded in 1925 with the sole purpose of fostering friendships among Angelenos. How to make real L.A. friends, according to Angelenos who swear it's possible 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z “If they have a handful of just absolutely harebrained folks doing and saying zany things,” Democrats “will be rolling in the dough and the body politic will continue to disintegrate and degrade,” Meijer said. GOP’s Meijer voted to impeach Trump. Now Democrats are targeting him. 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z It couldn’t have been any zanier than this. After adding USC and UCLA, Big Ten leaves door open to more expansion 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z And no golfer mutters to himself so systematically, indeed professionally, with the zany zeal that Spieth exhibits. Jordan Spieth Is Muttering Less and Smiling More 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Behind this zany, increasingly dark comedy, though, lies a wry rejection of the persistent hope that death will either snuff us out or make us better by serving up justice, solace, salvation, revelation, something. Review | Steve Toltz’s novel about death, ‘Here Goes Nothing,’ is gravely funny 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z All the zany, distasteful, irreverent and at times scatological excursions dramatize the multiplicity and fragility of Evelyn’s daily life. Perspective | ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a deeply Asian American film 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Adding the votes for lesser left or right zanies brings the extremist vote to at least 57 percent. Opinion | Unsettled governance and political loathing are as French as brie 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Where did all these zany ideas come from? 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' explained: Hot dog hands, empathy challenges and meaning in the absurd 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps this was why, even among the celebrity home videos, it was Amy Sedaris’s zany one-bedroom apartment — with a lampshade made out of hair swatches — that stuck with me the most. The Magic of Tiny-Home Videos 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z There’s no denying that kids will delight in “Sonic 2’s” zany antics, explosive set pieces and commendable lessons. Review | ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’: Speed demon sequel is, of all things, slow 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z In the great tradition of zany sitcom premises, all their parents come to live with them. Review | ‘The Folks at Home’ is playwright R. Eric Thomas’s paean to a beloved American staple 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Things can get zany in depths subterranean, regularly! Style Invitational Week 1479: It’s WordleVite! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z For Cooler Master’s 30th anniversary, the company has announced several products — some zanier than others. Cooler Master’s Sneaker X PC case has a lot of sole 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z They’re not really the type of articles I’d usually read, but they don’t stand out as being particularly zany or poorly written. The words and rhymes of alleged Bitcoin launderer Razzlekhan 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “The Oakland Raiders have scored on the most zany, unbelievable, absolutely impossible dream of a play,” Bill King, the Raiders’ radio broadcaster, announced. John Madden’s Life in Football: Decades of Passion for the Game 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Two weeks to go, and this zany NFL season is finally sorting itself out. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 16: Joe Burrow and Josh Allen shake up the AFC playoff race 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Imagine you’re a kid again and given an unlimited budget to build and race the zaniest Hot Wheels track you could possibly imagine. Check out these 10 great games of 2021 for your gaming PC 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z We also reveal the Avocado of the Year, our choice of California’s zaniest housing story of 2021. 'Gimme Shelter': What happens when a millennial buys a house 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The smart, aspirational heroes of the Sorkin-verse can be witty, acerbic or ironic, but they are never zany or out of control. Perspective | Three things Aaron Sorkin doesn’t understand: Comedy, sitcoms and women 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Scenes staged from the movie sit in Norton’s front yard, complete with mannequins dressed as characters from the zany comedy, along with vehicles from the movie and a wall of Christmas lights. Over-the-top Christmas house in La Mirada is worthy of Clark W. Griswold himself 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Luckily, even without valuable details on the man’s history and personal relationships, “Bob Spit” mostly charms as a zany portrait of a person coming to terms with the multitudes contained within himself. Review: 'Bob Spit' takes its inspiration and attitude from the cartoonist Angeli 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Meadows was in contact with a broad collection of obscure characters whose sometimes zany plans and theories made their way into the White House at a critical time. Jan. 6 Committee Recommends Contempt Charge for Meadows 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Brain apart from the Switch’s other party games, aside from its less zany mini-games, is just how adjustable the difficulty is. Nintendo’s new Big Brain Academy turns brainteasers into a party game 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z This isn’t homage; it’s fealty, but sapped of the zany creativity that brought this franchise to life in the first place. Review: Listless 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' fails to reanimate fun of the original 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z In the way the theater has been physically transformed, the production calls to mind the Hypocrites’ zany shindig version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance,” which came to Pasadena Playhouse in 2018. Review: The troubled Go-Go's musical "Head Over Heels" finds festive redemption 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Social media was full of zany claims: Foreigners voting! Opinion | In New Jersey, Republicans are trying to discredit another free and fair election 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z He brought his run-and-shoot offense to Washington State, along with the reputation for doing some zany things to get his Hawaii program attention and to keep things light for his players. Report: WSU football coach Nick Rolovich fired after refusing to take COVID-19 vaccine 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z A whimsical score and cheeky transitions complement Ulman’s zany cinematic personality piquing our interest for future endeavors. Review: Madcap mother-daughter duo enlivens downward social spiral of 'El Planeta' 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “We needed some fun and zany humor to kick off our season because it’s just been so dark in the world,” said Poisson. This show is only 17 minutes long and performed just once 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z That equilibrium is not quite there at the Getty Villa, but the zany Troubadour update is the truest to Aristophanes of any American production I’ve seen. Review: Liza plus Aristophanes equals the bedazzling camp of 'Lizastrata' at the Getty Villa 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z KELLEY: I too was surprised by Rick Flag’s death, mostly because I appreciate Joel Kinnaman as the straight man to all of these other zany characters. Unpacking all 'The Suicide Squad' spoilers we couldn't put in the review 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z It would sound like some zany plot for an over-the-top comedy. Neuroscientist explains how fanatical Trump followers could lead us to societal collapse 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z The tournament took a zany turn at the end, with a seven-man playoff necessary to determine the sole recipient of the bronze medal. A PGA Star Wins Gold in Golf, an Event Unmoored From the Games 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z In truth, I wish “Mario Golf: Super Rush” was a bit zanier. Review | ‘Mario Golf: Super Rush’: Maybe a little bit too chill 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z She’s warm and funny and kind of zany, thinking her thoughts out loud the same way she types them out in captions. The L.A. designer who remade the cobija into luxury fashion 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Musk’s Sunday social-media escapades were the latest chapter in one of the zaniest weeks in a crypto world famous for its wildness. Bitcoin tumbles after Musk implies Tesla may sell cryptocurrency 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Some of the zanier comedy moments don’t quite match the energy and pacing of this film, which is far darker than it is funny. Review: Sad and moving don't add up to much in 'We Broke Up' 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Just another zany night at Coors Field, which included a delay to turn off a spraying fountain but no furry feline roaming the field like the night before. McKinstry hits inside-the-park homer, Dodgers beat Rox 6-5 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Turn on Fox News any time, day or night, and you might catch the congressman spewing an endless stream of zany lies through lips set in a perpetual smirk. Fox News made Matt Gaetz a GOP star. Now he's trying to take Fox News' Tucker Carlson down with him 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The production was an instant hit with Bay Area theatergoers, who were eager to welcome back these zany political satirists at a time when there was so much insanity to skewer. Theaters hit the one-year anniversary of shutdown. How are artists keeping afloat? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Dara Quick, the owner of She Comes In Peace, a costume shop and hair salon, said she felt “super conflicted” about selling the store’s iridescent, glittery wigs and zany headdresses during the pandemic. Can New Orleans Celebrate Mardi Gras Without Reckless Abandon? 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Such zany behavior is to be expected of a person who wore a face mask proclaiming she was being “censored” even as she delivered a nationally televised speech on the House floor during Trump’s impeachment. Opinion | Trump is gone, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is keeping up the cult 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z But in these divided United States, these Republican plotters may well emerge as some kind of patriotic if zany Donald Trump loyalists worthy of a return to office. Introducing the Congressional un-American activities caucus 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Murphy, Arsenio Hall and the band of zany characters they played in the original film are all back in the new teaser trailer, which dropped Tuesday after photos from the film went public last week. In 'Coming 2 America' trailer, it's the Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall show 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The theories get zanier the more they are explored. Growing online theory says Wyoming doesn’t exist 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Such was Cook’s commitment to the library project that in one of the zaniest of charity telethons in L.A. history, he donned cowboy boots and hat and danced to “Just a Gigolo.” Lodwrick Cook, epitome of L.A.'s bygone era of corporate engagement, dies 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s the title of a zany short film Brooks created and made part of his comedy movie “History of the World, Part I” in 1981. ‘Jews in Space’ exhibit explores Jewish scholars, artists 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z For 35 years, Nintendo has placed its mascot in warmly fantastical settings and blessed the character with increasingly zany abilities. Nintendo's 'Super Mario 3D All-Stars' proves why Mario at 35 is more relevant than ever 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z But we should all probably happily take a Dickens adaptation that risks being too funny, too zany, too sentimental. Review: In ‘Copperfield,’ Iannucci brings Dickens to life 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z A man nearly loses all his assets, including his girlfriend, when a zany get-rich-quick scheme fizzles. Movies on TV this week: 'Dances with Wolves' on Encore 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z And then there were these two: a Capra-esque charmer starring Michael J. Fox and a zany “Top Gun” spoof starring Charlie Sheen. 'The Fugitive' or 'The Sixth Sense'? Twenty-four movies compete in this week's Showdown 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The original concept of a series about a zany field-tripping teacher was credited to Craig Walker, a Scholastic editor seeking to revive the tanking sales of science books for children. Joanna Cole, ‘Magic School Bus’ writer who hooked children on science, dies at 75 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z For those unaware, Mind Control Delete is more of the same zany, slow-motion combat and puzzle-solving that made the first Superhot one of the most creative shooters of the past decade. Superhot creators are giving away millions of free copies of Mind Control Delete expansion 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Gaikwad became known as the “mutton lady” after that early video and soon began posting several times daily — mostly snapshots of rural life, laced with zany comedy. TikTok made stars out of these villagers in India. Then it was banned 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Reiner was the foil for the zany Brooks’ “2000 Year Old Man,” an enduring routine they spontaneously devised during a slow time in the writers’ room at “Your Show of Shows.” Comedy giant Carl Reiner has died 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “Going into a really zany, goofy comedy is what I was doing with the Langs before my Hollywood train got running,” said Criss. Darren Criss reveals songwriting chops and a goofier side 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Each episode runs about 11 minutes, with vibrant colors and a zany touch. A superhero kid with autism shines in new PBS Kids’ series 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z A zany summer camp counselor leads his misfit charges into a no-holds-barred competition against high-class campers. Movies on TV this week, May 31: A Clockwork Orange and more 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The musical is as zany as it sounds — daring and self-lacerating, outrageous and moving. Pulitzer Prize: 2020 Winners List 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z When Weird Al appeared, waggling his arms zanily, long hair flapping in the hot wind, the crowd greeted him with a surge of joy. The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z And, it unfolded around the holidays because, as you know, only the zaniest worst-case scenarios unfold on Capitol Hill at Christmas. Coronavirus and Congress' likely response in coming months 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z He thinks parents who grew up with “VeggieTales” will be familiar with the zany but earnest approach to entertaining storytelling with a point. ‘VeggieTales’ creator turns unique style, storytelling to Scripture 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z A zany short reminding viewers to silence their cellphones. Slow-motion fights and French raps? Welcome to Vampire Cowboys’ 'Revenge Song' 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z |
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