| 单词 | madcap |
| 例句 | I think of her madcap, joyful dresses, of her dust-covered bedroom. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Together, the two crazy kids grow, have madcap escapades, and learn an important lesson about love. They learn to resist the feed. Rated PG-13. For language,” I whispered, “and mild sexual situations.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Color was splashed through the woods as if it had been thrown about by some madcap wastrel who spilled out, during the weeks of one brief autumn, beauty enough to last for years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Letters proposing madcap, unpublished ideas, often accompanied by hand-scribbled figures, were circulated among the members; it was a blog before blogs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Boobie, under the glare of all those screaming, raging, madcap fans, had trouble holding on to the ball. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The madcap, vividly dramatic "Yowzie" includes allusions to some of those early dances even as it resonates with contemporary dilemmas. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The place looks jazzy, irreverent and poised — like a madcap Cole Porter lyric come to life. T Magazine: The Importance of Being Nicky 2014-04-10T16:46:16Z Indeed, Portnoy’s chapter on the madcap sectarian battles occasioned by the Miss Judea beauty contest of 1929 is itself a gem of comic writing with a ferocious kicker worthy of either of the Brothers Singer. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Realizing that police officers must all be lazy and negligent child-haters, she instead embarks on a madcap vigilante mission to get her son back by herself. How to cope with a kidnapping, according to Hollywood 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In his brief solo, Mr. Greenberg establishes the dreamy structure — and the subtly madcap humor — that persists through the work’s 75 minutes. Review: A Dreamy, Madcap World of Things and the Ungraspable 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The set’s dollhouselike details, a mélange of the gravely serious and the madcap, are brought to life on each page. A New Book Goes Behind the Scenes of The Grand Budapest Hotel 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z For all its madcap energy and playful accomplishments, the novel lacks the dark shadows that make the best comedies truly memorable. 'Parrot and Olivier in America': A historical, comic novel by Peter Carey 2010-04-23T22:16:00Z It was madcap, stupid... but it might just work. Your stories: Life-saver by HorseLover3000 2012-08-16T11:00:00Z Like Aisha’s, Em’s journey to find a lost loved one involves a host of colorful, madcap characters who may or may not exist. New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The madcap play, which explores social media marketing and our image-fixated culture, strikes a different tone from, say, Beckett’s “Endgame.” Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2015-2016 season: 'Straight White Men,' Courtney Love 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Staged with brio by Mallory Catlett, “Space” is more streamlined and austere than the company’s previous shows but maintains its madcap humor. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z The first movement, a Toccata, opens with a rigorous statement of a stirring theme that soon fractures into a madcap rush of piano scales and glittering orchestral business. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z She turns up on her fans’ miniscreens as a madcap partygoer and, in the instance of Fabletics, a do-it-all businesswoman, and not least, as a good old gal just kicking back at home. Her Films May Flop, but Kate Hudson Remains a Fashion Star 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z He often mentioned his Jewish background, his mother and his wife, Barbara, for comic effect, as one sharp-edged observation collided with another in madcap verbal detonations. Don Rickles, lightning-fast launcher of comic insults, dies at 90 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z On one level it’s the kind of old-fashioned madcap burlesque in which the point is to whip up an atmosphere of liberating mayhem more or less for its own sake. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Directors are especially tempted to fill the stage with madcap activity in comic opera. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z It’s one problem after another for these two, and there’s something enjoyably twisted and confident about the way “Good Behavior” unfolds as something better than a madcap crime spree or a shallow action-romance caper. Lady Mary as a boozy, floozy Southern criminal? Works like a charm. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In the end, Verne’s story, however it’s encountered, will always mirror the Christmas season: Weeks of madcap action and inner turmoil finally usher in a morning of gladness, serenity and goodwill to all. Review | ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ — about to get a reboot — is the perfect Christmas tale 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z But what we get in Wilson's production is a series of tableaux vivants framed by madcap vaudeville routines. The Old Woman – review 2013-07-05T13:45:05Z There was some madcap charm to the earlier "Hoodwinked!" which reinterpreted the story of Red Riding Hood as a "Rashomon"-style detective story. Capsule reviews: `Fast Five,' `Prom' 2011-04-27T13:28:09Z What if we reframed film, not as disposable content or comment-fodder but as entertainment or — call me madcap — an art form? Perspective | Everybody had an opinion about ‘The Hunt’ before anybody saw it. That’s a problem. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z As the unhinged title character of “Hamlet,” at the Harman Center for the Arts here, Michael Urie seems not so much mad as madcap, with eccentrically extravagant gestures that Auntie Mame might envy. Review: Michael Urie Puts the Madcap in Hamlet’s Madness 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z With the help of a sultry and witty Veronica Lake, “Sullivan’s Travels” winds up being madcap and meaningful in equal measure. Perspective | Movies to satisfy your pent-up wanderlust 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z But now there were no coloured jackets, no madcap encore behaviour. Gustavo Dudamel and London: a special relationship 2012-06-19T16:43:02Z In Shakespearean comedies, marriage puts a halt to the madcap energy and silvery flux of midsummer. People Are Still Getting Married, and This Book Is Here to Help 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z “Smoking Causes Coughing” is a funny delight if you give in to its madcap logic. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z It is “a true crime story and a madcap comedy, a heist movie and a scalding polemic,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps because Russell's real-life story defies all logic, the movie refuses to follow any normal narrative conventions, becoming a pell-mell, can-you-top-this odyssey beyond madcap farce into total derangement. "I Love You Phillip Morris": Too gay for 2010? 2010-12-02T01:30:00Z Movies haven’t abandoned this scenario since a madcap Katharine Hepburn besieged a prim Cary Grant in the 1930s. Review: ‘Heisenberg,’ With Mary-Louise Parker, Mines the Extraordinary in the Commonplace 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z In both operas Rossini was already handling his trademark madcap ensembles with aplomb. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z An alcoholic novelist, a closeted film producer and a movie star with a terrorist ex-husband converge in this madcap novel set in 1960s England. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z As one enticing description of its contents puts it, the show "involves all the madcap goings-on and decadent behaviour". I'm a Celebrity: never mind Nadine, it's expolitative business as usual 2012-11-15T18:33:34Z Six years ago, the Mischief Theater Company arrived on Broadway from Britain with “The Play That Goes Wrong,” a madcap comedy about a hapless amateur theater company attempting to stage a whodunit. British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z In the first movement, Mr. Pierson made sure players articulated each madcap twist of rhythm not just with precision, but with a sense of glee. Review: Ligeti Sounded Thrilling, When Alarm Will Sound Was Let Loose 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z However many different faces the city might present to the camera — dressed up or roughed up, gritty or glamorous, tragic or madcap — it remains always and unmistakably itself. When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z "Stage Kiss" is distinguished by its tenderly stoked madcap conviction. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Despite an upping of the activity from frenetic to madcap, the reveal to some may be underwhelming. Maria Semple is back with another loopy, darkly comic novel 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Dodd achieved fame in theaters in the 1950s with a madcap humor and a relentless barrage of off-the-cuff ripostes. Madcap British comedian Ken Dodd dies, aged 90 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The last year saw rumblings of a return of club-kid finery and the kinds of madcap outfits that were a mainstay of the 1980s and early 1990s nightclub scene. Dress Codes: Going Gaga 2010-02-25T06:10:00Z The author of “Crazy Rich Asians” brings his romantic froth of privilege and manners to the Hamptons in this madcap riff on “A Room With a View.” New & Noteworthy, From Kevin Kwan to a Call for Integration 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z That, at least, is one of the possibilities Sarah and Nyles entertain on their sometimes madcap, sometimes melancholy adventures in the eternal present. ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z There is no place now in pop for the madcap and the beautifully demented, but there is always Trout Mask Replica. Captain Beefheart obituary: rock's father of invention 2010-12-19T00:08:01Z Brown’s madcap comics-style book, with dialogue in speech bubbles, lets Fred’s thoughts run wild, with spiders, dinosaurs and mayhem visiting the classroom and the supposedly uninspiring teacher. Back-to-School Picture Books to Brighten Any Kid’s First Day 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z If I silence the obsessive longing that parades like a madcap clown in my mind, he’s the perfect partner for me. How my husband forgot sex 2014-02-13T00:00:00Z Ms. Lebert in particular tackles her numerous parts with bravado and supplies some of the most memorable moments in the madcap plot. Theater Review | 'The Wonder': Random Acts of Comedy, Women Only 2010-03-04T23:03:00Z The production, sensationally directed by Michael Michetti, featured a top-notch ensemble that was able to balance the Russian master's psychological richness with his contemporary disciple's madcap postmodernism. A Times critic looks forward to a bright future backlit by a decade of brilliant theater 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Weege wrote more than 100 episodes of the series, which had a less wholesome and more madcap sensibility than contemporary comedies like “The Cosby Show” or “Family Ties.” Reinhold Weege, 62, Creator of ‘Night Court,’ Dies 2012-12-12T08:23:01Z Veering from madcap brassy triumph to cafe-music suavity, the work here received a lively, agile performance from Mr. Duncan, his delivery light and natural, and a team of excellent players. Review: Tyler Duncan Salutes Eccentric Patrons of Surrealists 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Then, it’s swiftly back to madcap pratfalls and wordplay, but not before they’re given one more reflection: “We’ve had a lot of laughs.” My streaming gem: why you should watch Road to Bali 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z When their breakneck-speed tourist bus and grim hotel room disappoint, they droop for a moment — just long enough for madcap heiress Cordelia Winthrop Scott to totter into the movie, on her very expensive heels. 'Monte Carlo': You can bet teen girls will like it 2011-06-30T19:37:03Z Amy Warren, meanwhile, wisely plays against the madcap mood in the role of Shlemiel’s baffled wife. | 'Shlemiel the First' : ?Shlemiel the First? at Skirball Center - Review 2011-12-15T23:08:04Z While performing he would engage in madcap antics, cracking up audiences and musicians alike, inspiring him to turn to comedy in 1962. Charlie Callas, Zany Comedian, Dies at 86 2011-01-28T18:59:38Z Despite his fondness for madcap satire, Mr. Breuker was anything but cavalier about his music. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z There are so many cameo appearances that watching the movie becomes a madcap guessing game: Is that George Segal climbing a wall on Utah Beach? A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z With just their voices and a few meager props, they concoct a madcap variety show that includes a deliriously deranged assortment of music. Review: ‘The Last Two People on Earth’ Offers Soft-Shoe Après Déluge 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The video and installation artist Alex Da Corte, who hails from the Philadelphia suburbs, has seized on that city’s outsize role in American history and culture in his madcap solo at Maccarone. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z More evocative are the bullfights and Lost Generation shenanigans — a madcap cabana party with men in evening attire and women wearing swimsuits dancing the Charleston by the sea — seemingly cribbed from “The Sun Also Rises.” How ‘Pandora and the Flying Dutchman’ Still Casts a Spell 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Visually, Arkham City conveys a delightfully dark sense of madcap decay. Video Game Review: You, Batman, Keep Arkham City in Line - Review 2011-10-19T15:49:36Z The screwball musical comedy, about three Navy men on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, unfolds the romantic mishaps of six major characters against the backdrop of a madcap midcentury metropolis pulsating with possibility. Review | ‘On the Town’ is off its mark in fumbling production 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Even as Jackson sold amusing essays to women’s magazines about her madcap life with four children and a hapless husband, her menacing fiction revealed the turmoil roiling beneath the surface. Ghost stories 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The madcap energy and profusion of detail, the weaving of unmarked dialogue with narration, the swoops from comedy to pathos—these are all typical of Lemebel’s prose. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z “Shock Treatment,” 1981, 50 percent rotten This little-known sequel to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is directed by the original film’s co-writer Richard O’Brien and possesses all of that movie’s madcap inventiveness and charm. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z This remarkable debut novel — already chosen by Mindy Kaling for an upcoming TV series — melts down striving immigrant tales, Old West mythology and even madcap thrillers to produce an invaluable new alloy of American literature. Review | Sanjena Sathian’s ‘Gold Diggers’ is a witty social satire with a dash of magic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Why would I embark on such a madcap endeavour? Breaking Bad: The Movie? Why it could be Vince Gilligan's worst idea 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z But it's important to stress that this madcap ranter is always deathly serious, and at his best, the thrum of comic energy can be near-Amisian. The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte – review 2013-07-24T10:21:39Z At the same time, Ms. Crosley was writing “The Clasp,” a coming-of-age story about the post-college adventures of three estranged friends, which involves a madcap quest for a valuable missing necklace. Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The building’s gargoyles hatch a madcap plan to save their home, uniting the city. Picture Books to Perk Up Any Kid’s Summer 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Like a madcap professor or ebullient magician, he bounds around explaining how he solved a math problem, then gleefully calls for confetti, which rains down upon the wildly applauding theater-goers. Tonys 2015: 'Curious Incident of the Dog' brings 'autistic perspective to life' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z “Honeymoon in Vegas,” a madcap musical that won positive reviews but failed to find an audience, will close on Sunday. On Broadway, 'Honeymoon' Is Over 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z What was already a night from hell becomes a madcap odyssey to procure a replacement. ‘12 Hour Shift’ Review: When a Bedside Manner Includes Murder 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z But the rest of the alarm rang in what Limerick calls “madcap” style. Smarter urban water: how dammed Denver turned to ridiculing waste 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Mad 3 won’t ascend to the animation Hall of Fame; what King Julien says of himself — “I’m just an emotional whoopee cushion for you to sit on” — is true of this madcap sequel. Madagascar 3: A Three-Dream Circus 2012-05-18T15:27:07Z She has madcap stories like the one where she and Betsy were out, and her sister’s neighbor came tracking a deer on a 4-wheeler through her land. When I learned to hunt 2013-01-06T01:00:00Z That Puppet Game Show will feature celebrities competing in a series of madcap games to win £10,000 for their chosen charity. BBC reveals details of gameshow from Muppets creators 2013-06-06T10:24:20Z In fact, this kind of creative, madcap mash-up is quintessential East Austin. Heads Up : Eclectic East Austin 2014-01-31T18:51:39Z “Dial A for Aunties” is, hands down, this year’s most madcap, swoony and delightful read. Romance novels to read this summer 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Aiming to be madcap, it dashes off in multiple directions. ‘The Asphalt Christmas’ Plays Movie Mash-Up 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z And as the camping trip started to go haywire, I had vague, vain hopes that we might be detouring into the territory of madcap all-American satire à la “The Simpsons.” | 'Wild Animals You Should Know': ?Wild Animals You Should Know,? by Thomas Higgins - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:27Z In other ways, “Titanic Depression,” a new multimedia performance, could only have come from the madcap brain of Dynasty Handbag, the queer vaudevillian with punk origins and questionable taste in unitards. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The next morning, after a madcap post-breakfast rehearsal, we gathered in the hotel’s parlor for the presentation. At a Murder Mystery Weekend, Whodunit? Everyone 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z References, registers and nonsense rhymes fly with madcap precision. | '3 2?s; or AFAR': ?3 2?s,? by Mac Wellman, at Dixon Place - Review 2011-10-17T23:32:34Z I genuinely appreciate the madcap workmanship of Travis Scott, who is not content as a performer unless he throws himself into a crowd, but his punk maximalism didn’t quite translate in his shoehorned Grammys set. It’s Too Late for the Grammys to Redeem Themselves 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z And while the resulting movie may be brainless, the sheer gusto with which it goes about telling its madcap story actually does become pretty awesome in its own way. Nic Cage's 4th of July classic 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Ms. McGowan is the rare actress who manages to land somewhere between femme fatale and madcap heiress. Possessed: Spelling Out How She Feels 2011-08-12T20:43:14Z And when she brought up the recent sniping among her fellow Republicans, an apparent madcap contest of who could be the most outrageous conservative, she laughed loudly. Not Done Yet 2010-10-08T21:40:00Z Another idea is to contrast Prada’s madcap shoes, like this season’s racing car heels, with Schiap’s whimsical hats, including the famous sculpted shoe. Dream Dialogue Between Schiaparelli and Prada 2012-05-07T11:30:28Z Already within his score’s first minute, the Mad Hatter had serious competition in the madcap department. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Anyway, I’m going to miss Katya, who was one of the most madcap characters ever on this show. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season seven, episode 11 – Hello, Kitty Girls! 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The 63-year-old Oscar-winning comedian, whose madcap style and versatility made him one of film and television's top stars, was found hanged at his home in northern California on Monday. Mort Sahl tells of time Robin Williams was his one fan 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The Marni look is one we all have down pat: clunky shoes, crazy print frocks, a madcap styling trick or six. | Marni Wins! 2011-03-01T00:52:10Z Based on the 1975 movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” this Broadway hit has taken Seattle audiences on a madcap Arthurian quest before, in a 2007 run at Paramount Theatre. ‘Spamalot’ is a successful quest for laughs 2014-02-08T03:50:51Z Like every other student of high school French, I’d read “Cyrano de Bergerac,” the madcap ode to true love as literary ventriloquism. He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z After the literary fare came dessert in the form of two brief, madcap 1950s art-world films in which she starred. Jane Freilicher’s Friends Celebrate Her Life and Art 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z And Mr. O’Connell rises to the crucial challenge of convincingly drawing Berowne’s evolution from madcap joker to melancholy philosopher, who comes to understand that man cannot live by words alone. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z Mr. Rosato, an energetic actor and madcap impressionist, got his start with the Toronto company of the Second City improvisational troupe. Tony Rosato, of 1981-82 ‘Saturday Night Live’ Cast, Dies at 62 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z With its move in 2008 to Columbus Circle from West 53rd Street in Manhattan, the letters seem intended to imply feverish innovation, but they also conjure “madcap” and a lack of seriousness. ‘NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial’ Has About 100 Contributors 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z This madcap mystery offers plenty of charms, as well as something much darker. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Featuring seven stories that were first published in magazines in the 1950s, this book will seem immediately familiar to Dr. Seuss readers, who will revel in the comic couplets about madcap creatures and wacky situations. New books by kid-lit legends 2011-11-11T01:25:25Z But was that really any less madcap or ornate a celebration? Mariah Carey Brings Christmas to the Beacon Theater 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Brightman, who received a Tony nomination for the Jack Black part in the stage version of “School of Rock,” again faces the unenviable task of reinventing a memorable madcap screen performance. Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Which is where the show began, after all, conjured way back in the way back as a madcap but semi-educational program for children. TV Picks: 'Doctor Who,' 'Breathless' and the Emmy Awards 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In any event, she appeared in many a forgettable film before breaking out as the glamorous, madcap aunt in “Mame” on Broadway. Angela Lansbury, Star of Film and Stage and TV’s Favorite Sleuth, Dies at 96 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z But the venture was so incredibly exciting, if so madcap and doomed, that I found I didn't care what I looked like. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z We want to run around in the great outdoors, chase after a pizza-delivery guy and maybe throw a cream pie in someone’s face, all of which happens in the madcap comedy “What’s Up, Doc?” Viewing Party! Let’s All Watch ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Both relationships are initially thrilling to all parties, full of madcap adventures; both blow up in everyone’s face. Noah Baumbach, Kicking and Screaming Into Middle Age 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z “I didn’t expect her to be so charming, and tiny, but very fashionable and madcap — she’s just delightful,” Bates said. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Douglas Slocombe, the British cinematographer who filmed the Nazi invasion of Poland, the adventures of “Indiana Jones” and the madcap farce of Ealing Studios comedies, died on Monday in London. Douglas Slocombe, ‘Indiana Jones’ Cinematographer, Dies at 103 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Part noir and part madcap adventure, what unfolds on our screens is sheer, delightful chaos that even had to be scaled back before becoming the final product that aired. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Brown’s alter ego suggests a madcap hybrid of Marilyn Monroe and Gracie Allen. Review: ‘Too Blondes,’ a Cabaret of Comic Confusion 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “But I also know she has this playful, wacky element to her as well. She is willing to abandon herself to madcap humor.” As She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany Is Beautiful When She’s Angry 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Another show, a revival of “On the Twentieth Century,” is advertising itself as “Broadway’s madcap musical comedy,” rich with “slap-happy shenanigans.” High-Spirited Comedies Rush the Stage 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s complex, and scary, and madcap, but isn’t that what life is like now, for people who finish school with their futures mortgaged and their dreams pre-measured? The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Toni Smith is winsome as Elizabeth, Frederick’s “adorable, madcap fiancée,” who later finds “Deep Love” with his unholy creation. All puns intended at DOMA's 'Young Frankenstein' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z From a soothsayer named Nostradamus, played with madcap mirth by Brad Oscar. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z As Harrington-Lueker notes, many of these stories possess a madcap energy, an aura of contained transgression. The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Forlorn and desperate, he came up with a madcap idea: He could fold himself into a crate and ship himself via airfreight to London for a fraction of the fare. Man seeks pals he once persuaded to ship him around the world in a crate 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The most famous of these images, “Dalí Atomicus,” shows the madcap Dalí aloft, brush and palette in hand. Last Chance: Philippe Halsman?s Jumpers at Laurence Miller 2010-05-23T23:30:00Z Experimentalists are well represented on The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, a madcap compilation with all the unity of theme of a proper album and, arguably, a more enjoyable one than their last, 2009's Embryonic. The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – review 2012-06-23T23:05:18Z His scenes never feel forced or rushed, even when they skew toward the madcap. 2010-01-08T03:18:00Z Rubikis thrillingly goes all-in on cacophony, proposing the moment as a madcap yet finely wrought precursor to contemporary works like John Adams’s Chamber Symphony. An Opera Rarity Reclaims Its Spot in the Repertory 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z He ended with a rarity, four of Smetana’s Czech dances, character pieces based on folk tunes that concluded with a dizzying, madcap “Hop Dance.” Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Take “Monkey Man,” with its madcap rock ‘n’ roll gusto or “Midnight Rambler,” Jagger’s fright-provoking retelling of the Boston Strangler’s “silk-stalking” spree murders. The Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed" at 50: An even darker "Gimme Shelter" emerges 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The crew he assembled became Core 13 Pictures, named for the court, and it describes itself on its website as a collective of "madcap artists and animators" who work on one another's projects. "Beasts" comes to Oscars with tiny budget, first-time director 2013-02-22T07:00:34Z You will also meet eccentric characters possessed by a kind of madcap melancholy, soulful and silly in equal measure. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z Part caper, part rom-com, this mystery offers a madcap plot, an irresistible protagonist and a fascinating look at Indonesian and Chinese culture. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z For all its postmodern cleverness, Bored to Death is basically a threeway madcap bromance about grown men armed with stuffed toys. Your next box set: Bored to Death 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z The attraction and repulsion between a would-be messiah and his apostle anchors this madcap skewering of contemporary culture packed with fake gurus, cheating spouses, junk-food obsessions and yoga. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z But, based on its madcap theatrical trailer, it appears the film doesn't mirror the Wells case beyond the pizza-bomber plot device or go anywhere near paralleling Wells' death. Family, investigator question 'pizza bomber' movie 2011-08-07T17:05:11Z The busy, 3-D animation relies a bit too much on madcap flight sequences and vast, vaulted spaces, but the character design has real warmth, and the animation is frequently witty and sometimes mesmerizing. Movie Review: In ‘Rise of the Guardians,’ Childhood Naïveté Wins 2012-11-20T22:29:12Z Taking a page from that master of outrageous parody Charles Ludlam, she infuses her loosely inspired update with a steady stream of madcap mockery. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Jones, who plays the stern adult to Brooker’s madcap boy genius, shot back: “Yes, we do!” ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z They suggested a madcap dash through London in its punk years. Jean-Paul-Gaultier: A Journey Into Space 2014-03-02T20:26:25Z His mother died as he turned 12, an event which left the seven Housman children in the care of their genial but madcap father, and which would gradually lead Housman to reject Christianity. A Worcestershire lad 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The film was generally marketed as a madcap romantic comedy, in spite of its realistically violent third act. Something Genre Crossing, Something Bold 2011-05-13T23:03:02Z The Musical,” at the Pleasance Courtyard, is a madcap interpretation of the Shakespearean tragedy set to music played by a live band. Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes) 2010-08-27T22:59:00Z When was the last time you saw a movie about a madcap, heroic effort to save Flag Day? | 'Arthur Christmas': ?Arthur Christmas,? Voiced by James McAvoy and Hugh Laurie 2011-11-22T13:00:00Z Although the musical surfaces may seem madcap, the underlying structures are anything but; small, micro-units of song are balanced with grander processes and callbacks that give these pieces a weightier sense of scale. Revisiting a Composer’s Psychedelic Lewis Carroll Music 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Studded leather moto pants, nubby bathrobe coats and paisley pajama tops were artfully combined and matched with woolly socks and sandals for a completely charming, madcap look. T Magazine: Paris Top 5 2013-01-21T21:54:14Z Rampant, madcap clutter defines “Their Satanic Majesties Request” like no Rolling Stones album before or since. Blasts From the Past From the Rolling Stones, D’Angelo, Neil Young and Can 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “You get more behind the scenes into what’s going on with the characters, as well as all the farce and the madcap comedy.” British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z It lends a gentle madcap, somewhat cognitively dissonant vibe to everything from the climatic shootout in "Scarface" to footage of escaped llamas. Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z “Community’s” every episode may intend to blow minds and blow-up genres, but audiences came to expect exactly that level of madcap energy every week. “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s crass comeback 2012-06-26T15:15:00Z A year later he was hand-picked for the Monkees’ TV show, directly inspired by the Beatles madcap movie “A Hard Day’s Night.” Monkees' Davy Jones dies at 66; a pivotal teen idol 2012-02-29T22:20:00Z A sort of madcap gloss on “Private Lives” filtered through Edith Wharton and Clare Booth Luce, Mr. Auburn’s version of that 1906 play will open Wednesday at the Lucille Lortel Theater. The Curious Career of David Auburn 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z 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 After an extended intermission, in which a madcap trombonist serenaded the audience with “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” Beethoven’s “Pastoral” brought another stoppage, at the end of the exposition section of the first movement. Salonen Replaces James Levine at the Verbier Festival 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Constantly surrounded by food content, I’ve developed a madcap refusal to cook the same meal twice — except for when I fall back on the classics. I didn’t like grandma’s brisket — but here’s why I’ll always love it 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Or rather, it's everything you would expect from all concerned, minus the "madcap" and with a nice balance of the "electronic" and "folk". New band of the day: Heterotic (No 1,443) 2013-01-31T16:58:09Z The grizzled Mr. Larroquette ultimately manages to dig into the character’s anguish with some effectiveness, but Mr. Zegen never persuasively transmits the turbulence and pain beneath Oliver’s madcap antics. | 'Oliver Parker!': Elizabeth Meriwether?s Dark New Comedy 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z On paper, “The Little Dog Laughed” sounds like a madcap screwball affair, but ArtsWest’s production achieves more than breezy mishap comedy. ‘Little Dog Laughed’ balances emotions, showbiz barbs 2014-01-28T04:07:07Z But it followed with madcap energy, like a dog newly let off its leash. Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Seven years later, in “The Big Sombrero,” Ms. Verdugo played a madcap Mexican ranch owner who, with her peasant rancheros, is saved from swindlers by an American singing cowboy, played by Gene Autry. Elena Verdugo, Who Lifted Latina Image on TV, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z This hallucinogenic debut novel by the noted director and screenwriter features the madcap effort to reconstruct a masterpiece of outsider cinema. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It's manic and messy, and McDonagh - whose previous film was the delightfully grim, more centered "In Bruges" - doesn't yet have the visual command for a sprawling, madcap tale as this. Capsule reviews of `Argo,' other new movies 2012-10-11T02:01:05Z But "PEN15" never keeps things serious for too long, and soon enough their madcap spellcasting gets out of control and has Maya speaking in tongues, eyes rolling back in her head. "PEN15" returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The film unfolds with a madcap energy that nonetheless carries a whiff of fatigue. Review: ‘Cosmos’ Is a Madcap Plunge Into Retro Avant-Gardism 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The result is a running crash course in remedial ethics, with the most madcap name-dropping of the greats of moral thought since Monty Python’s “Bruces’ Philosophers Song.” How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z But if this huge open-air nightclub proves too much, stroll down the sandy lane to a cluster of less madcap bars, where happy hours run past dusk. 36 Hours in Goa, India 2010-03-12T04:04:00Z “At the same time it has that great Muppet madcap wit, those zingers and those really fast takes, and those 30-second acts that are just hilarious. It’s like a ‘Muppet Show’ with a story.” Remember Emmet Otter and His Jug Band? They’re Back, and Onstage. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z But while it addresses serious issues and emotions, “Allergic,” unlike hives and sneezing, is mostly madcap fun. Pet Project 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z It's an odd, madcap mix from the off. Discombobulated ? review 2011-08-09T11:28:02Z Here it becomes clear that Kalfar has much larger aims with “Spaceman of Bohemia” than to write a spry, madcap work of speculative fiction. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z "I associate the instrumental with farce, with madcap high jinks," he said, "And I associate farce and madcap high jinks, sometimes, with failure." Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z This might sound paranoid, but you'd almost think there was some reason this madcap romantic comedy featuring two name-brand movie stars was too radioactive for Hollywood. "I Love You Phillip Morris": Too gay for 2010? 2010-12-02T01:30:00Z The madcap, martial-arts-infused action kicks off after the fall of Saigon as a man and a woman struggle to escape. Theater Listings for Oct. 21-27 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z For a few years, Arnold would sully his good name in madcap romps like Kindergarten Cop, Junior, Jingle All the Way and Eraser. Drama-free Thanksgiving: alternative movie marathons for every taste 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Like Frayn’s madcap “Noises Off,” “The Copenhagen Papers” — written by Frayn and David Burke, who played the Nobel laureate Niels Bohr in the original London cast of “Copenhagen” — is a backstage farce. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z So here he is, all the way from St. Petersburg, Russia, the man who put the madcap in madness. | 'Diary of a Madman': Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too 2011-02-18T00:36:24Z Then, in a moment of perfect madcap New York serendipity, a running club of very fit people pierced both the real protest and the fake “Joker 2” mob on the courthouse steps. ‘Joker 2’ steals the show as Trump court drama plays out just steps away 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The agitated, quickly shifting nature of the music, if not quite comic in the way of Buñuel, has a madcap quality. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s a bit madcap, I would say, in a good way. Renée Fleming Adds a New Role to Her Repertoire: Pat Nixon 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z “I felt she was still maintaining this madcap character, which is a bit more constructed, in the scenes with her sons, but the kids are so natural,” Mr. Nuxoll said. Encounters : Shannon Plumb, A Brooklyn Life On the Big Screen 2013-08-28T23:14:51Z This impels her to fly the cube, a madcap and violent escape with Byron watching from behind her eyeballs. Review: In ‘Made for Love,’ She Can’t Get Him Out of Her Head 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z At moments, all this is delightfully ridiculous, reminiscent of Michael Chabon at his madcap best. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Its reputation trails adjectives that trigger gag reflexes: madcap, warm, life-affirming and “crazy,” spoken with that special fondness reserved for tales of wholesome eccentricity. ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Handled Properly, Ages Well 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z She is instead a vocal slapstick artist of both speech and song, shifting registers and styles with madcap virtuosity. Review: In ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ Jackie Hoffman as Paradoxical Charmer 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z “Fortunately, her background provided her with the resources to be as madcap as she wanted,” he said. Lilly Pulitzer’s Estate Holds an Auction for her Eye-Popping Fashion 2014-02-28T22:31:05Z I recall trying to watch James Corden in “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which by all accounts is a madcap time! Love Theater? Jesse Green Recommends Streaming Options 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Modern life is such a clutter of claptrap that it’s easy to think everything’s only ever getting more madcap. Yesterday’s News 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z They're not disappointed: Birch looks even more like a scarecrow than he did in 1992, but time hasn't affected his capacity for stage capering or the enthusiasm of his madcap exhortations. The Bays vs Stereo MCs 2010-04-18T21:30:00Z The humour in My Man Godfrey is madcap, but in the best way, and the main source of comedy is the vulgar behaviour of the spoiled, witless Bullock family. My streaming gem: why you should watch My Man Godfrey 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z I was reminded of the recent revival of Pinero's The Magistrate and the enormously successful One Man, Two Guvnors; the action in Skios is as madcap, the plot convolutions as absurd. Skios by Michael Frayn – review 2013-04-28T11:00:02Z Matt Smith was great at that too, of course, but I honestly thought the show’s writers were going to make Capaldi a touch more madcap than they seem to be doing. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode one – Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z The madcap, martial-arts-infused action kicks off following the fall of Saigon as a man and a woman struggle to escape. Theater Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z It's all madcap and camp to begin with, as the captain arrives on board to Walking in Memphis and the crew dance past the passengers, stopping momentarily to boogie with them. SS Arcadia 2010-05-21T21:30:00Z The fantastical tableaus and sleight-of-hand transformations proved perfect fodder for the madcap magic of puppets. Gotham Chamber Opera’s ‘El Gato con Botas’ 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z With a lump in his throat and a tremble in his voice, actor Billy Crystal remembered the madcap performer as "the brightest star in a comedy galaxy" and concluded: "Robin Williams - what a concept." Emmys exalt old favorites over TV's shiny newcomers 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z On a larger scale — by far the largest of this festival — “Rev. 23” was a madcap explosion of lovable ludicrousness for a large orchestra and a substantial cast. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Qian does a nice job with the scene in his painting, catching the madcap mood without resorting to shtick, and letting the garden itself, with its twisty dragon-tail trees, be the main character. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z But that’s just one strand of McBride’s tour de force, a book resounding with madcap characters and sly commentary on race, crime and inequality. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The scene suggested the madcap grace and giddiness of a Marx Brothers routine. Music Review: Ad Hoc Quartet With Common Roots 2010-08-29T21:38:00Z The show’s second act ends with a wild, madcap party, in which middle-aged sybarites frolic like they’re still 19, a festivity that starts off merely embarrassing but turns into a danse macabre. London Theater Journal: Bright Young Things in a Dimming Light 2010-07-23T14:30:00Z She produces all sorts of madcap objects from these pockets: motor horns, alligators, a pink and green elephant and so it goes on. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z “Love” has a bright and exciting cynicism, and it plays to both a madcap side and a more emotional, grounded one. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z 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 Despite the music’s madcap energy, its structure allows the audience to perceive the rules of the game. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z In wilder moments, the two are a madcap comic duo. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z So are the orchestrated events that follow, as Bricks — the kind of guy who uses the word “feminazi” — joins Maz on the march before they veer from the route for some madcap adventuring. ‘Maz and Bricks’ Review: Marching for Rights, With Signs of Romance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z His new novel may be filled with marginal survivors of war, cancer and unemployment, but it’s all richly carbonated with madcap antics. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Set in the 1920s, the slapstick plot involves a wealthy orphan on a madcap adventure, inspired by Henley’s love of 1920s movies. ‘Kid Victory,’ new musical from legendary John Kander, to premiere at Signature 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Set designer Daniel Ostling keeps the stage bare, yet the show’s unmistakable opulence undercuts the premise of a madcap lark done on the cheap. The adaptation game’s afoot: Ludwig’s five-person ‘Baskerville’ opens at Arena 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z But every week since the show debuted in fall 2006, Richmond has fashioned the background music that sonically frames the madcap action. A final '30 Rock' showcases its unsung music man 2013-01-29T18:01:04Z But as with most of Mr. Ruders’s works, this one is madcap, eclectic and teeming with drama. Classical Recordings: POUL RUDERS 2011-06-10T14:29:27Z Winters' outlandish riffing style and repertoire of madcap characters made him a leading stand-up performer in the late 1950s but the pressure of being on the road led to a mental breakdown in 1959. Manic comic Jonathan Winters dead at 87 2013-04-13T04:51:34Z It is far too simplistic to dismiss these designers and their successors as “madcap milliners” focused on sartorial shock tactics or creating styling props rather than bona fide hats. Hat Makers With Attitude 2011-10-03T18:23:15Z The madcap traits of “The Happiest People in the World” are domesticated into submission as we get all bogged down in the principal’s failing marriage and his son’s adolescent problems. ‘Happiest People in the World’: Just a madcap comic satire about Islamofascism 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z When she is assigned her own false identity and charged with befriending a middle-aged woman who is a Nazi sympathizer, the humor tilts toward the madcap; Juliet is, at best, a sloppy and capricious spy. A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Still, a season built exclusively on tabards, A-line tunics and stripped-down leathers would be chilly and forbidding were it not for the madcap frills that lend it its glamour — and inimitable character. Scenes From the Runway: Fall?s Best Looks 2010-08-26T05:21:00Z The opera begins madcap, with the servants’ exits and dizzying greetings of “enchanted” in complex ensembles nearly impossible to contrapuntally untangle. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z They included madcap fluffy headdresses with an icon named “Poly Styrene,” just like the band’s lead singer. Prints That Tell a Story 2012-09-16T18:24:24Z But suspend our morality and things start to take on a deliriously entertaining and madcap sparkle, with films like "The Master" and "Phantom Thread" playing like nihilistic screwball, cracked comedies. Comedies in serious clothing: an introduction to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z In this somewhat madcap environment, it’s possible to climb inside a bear, slide through a tulip, hang out inside a giant paddlefish, and dream up a play on a stage with a velvet curtain. Transforming Tulsa, Starting with a Park 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The illustrations are all by Quentin Blake, whose wispy, madcap black-and-white drawings have become the definitive visual partner to Dahl. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The madcap romp of “Wild Minds” ends with Disney’s death in 1966, when McCay’s dire prognostication about selling breakfast cereal to “the nation’s youngsters” had finally come to pass. ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The 63-year-old Oscar-winning comedic virtuoso, whose madcap style and dramatic versatility made him one of film and television's top stars, was found hanged at his home in Northern California on Monday. Robin Williams' death highlights Parkinson's-depression link 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The madcap mission goes predictably and hilariously awry, resulting in two dead dogs and a gobbled-up goldfish. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s cavorting to spry klezmer as soon as the house lights dim and it rarely loses its sense of madcap urgency. Review: ‘Old Stock,’ an Immigrant Love Story Set to Klezmer 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z This short scene of grim discovery contains all of the series’ best, most discordant elements: madcap pop-culture references, whimsical surrealism, and surprisingly real emotional depth. The Emmys 2016: The Season’s Most Memorable TV Moments 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The orchestra, led by Aaron Gandy, struggles to measure up much of the time, but that irritation, too, recedes into the distance as the madcap merriment takes its course. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z He takes a sliver of truth and spins it into madcap fantasy. For Norm Macdonald, facts are just starting points for comedy 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The madcap interplay between the piano and the orchestra soon got going, and seldom stopped. Review: Andrew Norman’s ‘Split,’ a Teeming Premiere From the New York Philharmonic 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z It can be delightful, infectious and brilliant; it can also be defensive, emptily madcap, even aggressive. Alasdair Gray: 'There isn't much time. Better get on with it' 2012-11-18T00:08:01Z A true crime story and a madcap comedy, a heist movie and a scalding polemic, “The Big Short” will affirm your deepest cynicism about Wall Street while simultaneously restoring your faith in Hollywood. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Especially in the duets about incompatibility, “I Don’t Think I’ll Fall in Love Today” and “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” a frisky, madcap playfulness added zest. Music Review: The Cheeriness of Those Gershwin Boys 2011-01-27T22:43:45Z And though she sometimes gives them reason for tears, deep anguish is no more a part of her palette than madcap hilarity. | 'Change of Plans': All Kiss-and-Tell and Wink-and-Nod at a Crowded Dinner Party 2010-08-26T23:23:00Z This is a wonderful book about Eva and her madcap ideas, she suddenly gets all muddled up in this horrific mess. The Great Ice Cream Heist by Elen Caldecott 2013-07-07T08:00:00Z There’s a reason for all that flakiness and fidgeting: “The Newsroom” weaves an underlay of screwball comedy into the drama, and MacKenzie’s madcap missteps and stuttering dismay are part the show’s lighter touch. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom,’ an HBO Series From Aaron Sorkin 2012-06-21T21:29:12Z He dispatched the madcap finale with eerie coolness, even at a breathless tempo. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Gives a Thoughtful Recital at Carnegie Hall 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The star and madcap choreographer of “Pool Play 2.0” is Jonathan Matthews, whose frenzied dance in the bathtub of a Brooklyn Heights brownstone was the most inspired element of the company’s “Versailles 2016” last fall. Review: In ‘Pool Play 2.0,’ the Audience Is Welcome to Make a Splash 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z But he was most known for his plays, which often had a madcap style combining science with the occult, eschewing naturalism, and sometimes obliterating the boundary between life and death. Snoo Wilson, Surrealistic British Playwright, Dies at 64 2013-07-08T01:09:55Z BSP perform two sets, wildly different in style and volume, interspersed by madcap guitar duo Brown Brogues – a mix of the Cramps and the White Stripes. British Sea Power – review 2013-04-11T16:46:31Z The accompanying show by Bedwyr Williams relies on a more madcap form of mystification. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z Jude's madcap adventures grind to an awkward halt whenever the heavily capitalised subject of Literature comes up. Not the Booker prize 2011: Jude in London by Julian Gough 2011-08-25T11:21:28Z Dodd achieved fame in theaters in the 1950s with a madcap humor and a relentless barrage of off-the-cuff ripostes. Madcap British comedian Ken Dodd dies, aged 90 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z But this joyous presentation, with its Peruvian hats worn with Moroccan silver necklace, hooded sweat top, Alpine socks and Chinese boots — and almost all that in one outfit — was as madcap as it was profound. Special Report: Refreshing Their Identities 2010-03-07T18:41:00Z Spending a few hours in the comfort of the Metropolitan Opera enjoying the madcap adventures of Rossini’s endearing characters would surely provide a welcome escape. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z “Hooten & the Lady” tries for madcap adventure but settles for mild charm. Review: 'Hooten & the Lady,’ Raiders of the Indiana Jones Clichés 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Created by 30 Rock alumna Tracey Wigfield, it may never outrun comparisons to Fey’s other madcap workplace comedy about the production of a live TV show, but there are worse crosses to bear. Unseen on the small screen: the best TV of 2017 … that you didn't watch 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But the concept is not held to so stringently that it detracts from the adorably madcap fun. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Following a number of madcap, Keystone Kop-like shenanigans, the book concludes with Sarah Brown sailing to the United States and starting a new life. Review | For the disenchanted: two lightly comic and quietly touching tales of magic 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Her effort is rewarded with a long subplot that sends Joyce and Chief Hopper off in a madcap and even romantic direction, easily becoming one of the season’s highlights. Review | A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z “The Babymakers,” a madcap comedy that detours into vulgarland every now and then, has its own answer to that question, and once you’ve seen the scene, you may be ready to declare the case closed. Movie Review: ‘The Babymakers,’ With Olivia Munn and Paul Schneider 2012-08-02T18:40:16Z A meticulously styled madcap murder comedy that came out in March, "Grand Budapest" has been gaining steam in recent months. Golden Globes: Surprise wins may throw curveball in Oscars race 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z But Yocum constructs a madcap yarn around this epicenter of economic depression, shifting narrators across a handful of quirky, hard-bitten residents. Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Led by the brilliant, madcap drummer Han Bennink, the group has a recent album, “East of the Sun,” that provides the repertory for this residency, part of a two-week cross-country tour. Jazz Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Brainy, meticulous, stealthily madcap, he racked up credit after underpaid credit. Why William Jackson Harper of ‘The Good Place’ Can’t Quit the Theater 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Even so, in subsequent years the show’s focus has shifted considerably, with the madcap antics of the digital shorts giving way to a focus on live sketches and political commentary. The long life of digital shorts: an ode to Saturday Night Live's viral highs 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z 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 There are fine free-standing movies like madcap French animation A Town Called Panic, but how about watching a documentary on horses in a horsebox? This week's new film events 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Fear not: Familiarity with the novel is no prerequisite for enjoying this antic show, a madcap mash-up of live performance, prominent video and much audience participation. Review: A Salon With Strangers in a Freewheeling ‘War and Peace’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z His madcap novel “Absurdistan” is aptly named for the imaginary land in which it takes place. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “Despite its madcap romps, ‘Lady in Waiting’ can make for sobering reading, and the downside of this privileged life, with its potential for tragedy, looms,” Alida Becker writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The highlight should be Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in D major, a work of marvelous rhythmic vigor and madcap invention in its outer movements, with some soul-searching beauty in its central Andante. ‘Prokofiev, Haydn & Mozart’ a promising SSO combo 2014-01-16T20:30:56Z The former, adapted from a graphic novel by Charles S. Forsman, brings the lightest touch possible to the madcap misanthropy of young lovers on the run in an eerily anachronistic England. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z He dives into the audience and returns, grinning and still singing, by which time his madcap barnet looks a good two inches taller. Bastille – review 2013-03-13T13:37:18Z The 2008 film "The Pleasure of Being Robbed" was about a young woman who stole what she needed partly for necessity and partly for some madcap view of the world. 'Heavens Knows What' star knows all about the street life film depicts 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z 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 Itzkoff does a good job of capturing this period’s madcap caprices. A Comic Force of Nature: The Life — and Death — of Robin Williams 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z 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 Mr. Hugnet’s Michelin Guide is mostly madcap fun, but underneath ripple the legacies of colonialism, which introduced “exotic” foreign lands and generally paved the way for tourism. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z 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 animation itself is madcap crazy in weaving together tight scrapes and cultural references. 'Penguins of Madagascar' hit by a blizzard of puns 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z While there are abattoir scenes, and no shortage of heartache, much of the film is madcap and light, and shot through with Mr. Bong’s wry humor. A Maverick Director, His Big Pig and the Small Screen 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The shape of tomorrow’s Southern rap, madcap and colorful and rowdy. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z If this were the circumference of “In the Midst of Winter,” it would be a delightful madcap comedy: “Arsenic and Spanish Lace.” Review | It’s a snowy day in Brooklyn, and there’s love in the air — and a body in the trunk 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z There are pop quizzes to eliminate further dancers, a madcap derby to lose some more. Dare to dance 2011-08-08T00:35:42Z But the choreographer has her madcap and her romantic sides as well. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley and Dancers at Judson Memorial Church - Review 2012-01-10T23:37:41Z And a lot of the techniques that once seemed fresh — the fragments, the slapstick, the madcap sound design — now feel like clichés. Review: ‘Field Guide’ Brings Standup to a Dostoyevsky Downer 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Her parents carry her screaming from the interview room, in a madcap caricature of victim-blaming. “Heathers,” Reviewed: The TV Remake of the Classic Teen Comedy Is a Feat of Hostile Farce 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z A strip club, Chernobyl and a rave-style beach party in Phuket are just a few of the stops on their madcap itinerary. A world of small-screen adventure: Here are the best travel TV shows for streaming 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Now ending the first few weeks of rehearsal for “You Can’t Take It With You,” the 1930s farce about a madcap New York family, Jones is conserving his energy. James Earl Jones: A voice for the ages, aging gracefully Little of that tension makes its way into “Return to the Willows,” which goes in for fast-paced, madcap adventure. Texas Monthly: Austin Writer Jacqueline Kelly Turns to ‘Willows’ Sequel 2012-10-21T02:53:58Z I wanted to see that happen onstage — of course, an abbreviated, madcap version of it, because to fully get into drag can take hours. How an Elvis impersonator-turned-drag queen was born: Playwright Matthew Lopez on 'Georgia McBride' 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Night after night he was there, madcap yet erudite. Craig Ferguson’s “The Late Late Show” Will Be Missed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z HAD you met her casually with no clue as to her identity, you would never associate Madelyn Pugh Davis with the outlandish behavior and outrageous situations personified by Lucille Ball in her madcap heyday. The Woman Behind Lucy?s Laughs 2011-08-06T20:30:18Z The twins’ normal madcap sensibility isn’t absent from the film, though. With ‘Talk to Me,’ Directors Leap From Phone Screens to the Big Screen 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z What makes Shakespeare’s plays ripe for such madcap interpolations is their very capaciousness of spirit. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Their home, brimming with warmth, is crowded nightly with friends and family, like a madcap salon fueled by cocktails and lively conversation. ‘Waiting for Bojangles’ Review: Endless Love 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z There’s enough madcap mayhem elsewhere that any more would have been overkill. ‘Meg 2: The Trench’ Review: Gleefully Jumping the Shark 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z But the role of madcap spiritual godmother to little misfit monsters everywhere is one that Lady Gaga already has down cold. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stage Resuscitation for Career-Challenged Celebrities 2011-05-26T16:16:55Z I’m happy to report that the 5th Avenue’s locally cast “Spamalot” is just as garish, madcap and entertaining — maybe more so. ‘Spamalot’ is a successful quest for laughs 2014-02-08T03:50:51Z As with the film, the show will follow the madcap adventures of a rocker-turned-substitute teacher Dewey Finn at a prestigious prep school. TV version of 'School of Rock' heading to Nickelodeon 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z This feat of technology for a madcap jewel was not achieved until 1951. Jewelry: Unzip the Bling 2011-01-31T14:40:04Z Much like her madcap outfits, the soirees she hosts are motley affairs. Ladyfag Is the Rave of the Future 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The highlight of this program may be Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 4, a work of marvelous rhythmic vigor and madcap invention in its outer movements. The Week Ahead: Mariners FanFest, Colin Meloy 2014-01-16T00:00:46Z Yes, some of this has the madcap predictability of a rom-com available on DVD three weeks after its theatrical release. ‘Us’: A fractured family’s trip into parenthood’s regrets Who, indeed, when you can have a siren in German Expressionist eyebrows and madcap designer outfits, crooning to propulsive backing tracks? Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z But once I landed, I found an understated iteration of the capital’s luxurious digs paired with its madcap experimental artistic sensibility. The Many Faces of Puerto Rico 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The ramshackle, sometimes squalid, occasionally madcap life in the studio where O-Ei apprentices to her father contrasts with the staid, cautious domesticity of the home where O-Ei’s enchanting, blind younger sister lives. Review: In ‘Miss Hokusai,’ an Apprentice to the Artistic Life 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But when madcap Georgie hurtles into his life and bed, he reveals deep reserves of emotion. At 77, He Gets to Woo Mary-Louise Parker 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Crystal, a longtime friend of Williams who rose to fame in the same 1970s comedy circuit, remembered the madcap performer as "the brightest star in a comedy galaxy". In cosmic tribute, Emmys bid adieu to Robin Williams 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z But for those who keep driving — past the madcap snowboarders at Skibowl, past the hot-toddy-sipping guests at the Timberline Lodge and past the cross-country skiers serenely loping around Trillium Lake — another reward emerges soon enough. Journeys: Correspondents Select Some of Their Favorite Roads 2012-05-20T22:47:22Z Ms. Russell said a certain amount of madcap uncertainty had been her impetus for joining “Running Wilde.” ?Running Wilde? Races for an Audience 2010-10-04T15:01:00Z This interspecies adoption provides plenty of humor and madcap excitement, as well as lessons in tolerance: Someone doesn’t have to look like you to love you and be your mom. Spare Times: For Children, for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It is a swooning, sometimes madcap look at Babitz, “the louche, wayward, headlong, hidden genius of Los Angeles” who has in recent years become something of a feminist icon. Review | A new look at Eve Babitz: Artist, provocateur and unlikely feminist icon 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Four Bollywood newcomers lead this Delhi comedy, playing losers with a madcap scheme to get into college. Man Of Steel, Paradise: Love, Admission: this week's new films 2013-06-15T05:00:16Z The music, by turns meditative and frisky, reminds us that for all the madcap high jinks, something vital is at stake. Review: Chekhov knew ‘Life Sucks.’ Aaron Posner’s Vanya redo turns it into an invigorating question 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z In a frenetic, error-strewn derby that was madcap in its intensity but lacking much in the way of calmness and cohesion, the Japanese stood apart in an attacking sense. 'Kyogo conundrum continues to puzzle Rangers in Old Firm defeat' 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z Just like in life, madcap morphed movingly into startlingly profound melancholy. Review: Singing and rambling, Chris Thile calls for 'Attention!' with his shape-shifting mandolin 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Fleming’s use of improvisation in the stand-up segments of “HELL” makes the show feel extra madcap. Oddball comedian Chris Fleming's special "HELL" goes beyond his awkward body of work 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Hawthorne’s madcap radio antics included playing records backward and sped up, while he and his imaginary recorded friend, Skippy, would comment about the music. Reader letters: Memories of the Roxy and the debate over 'Sound of Freedom' 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z That may be why the art world establishment long treated Garner, 81, as a fringe character, more madcap inventor than conceptual artist in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp or Andy Warhol. Pippa Garner’s Wild Ride 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Arkin also headlined ABC’s short-lived madcap comedy “Harry” and appeared on “Sesame Street” with his second wife, Barbara Dana, in the early 1970s. Oscar winner Alan Arkin, seasoned trouper of 'Little Miss Sunshine,' 'Argo' and 'The Russians Are Coming,' dies 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The message of love is love is put to the farcical test, but Casey Nicholaw’s direction and choreography have no trouble keeping pace with the madcap high jinks. Ranking this year's Tony best musical nominees from worst to best 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z The madcap plot will keep readers in suspense until the final page. Review | 5 new mystery novels worth staying up late to finish 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z They never expected that their madcap multiverse tale would take them to the Oscars. The Oscar universe belongs to ‘Everything Everywhere’ 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The story — in all its madcap, reckless zeal — comes first. Review: A graceful 'Much Ado About Nothing' — in all its madcap zeal — shines at A Noise Within 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The madcap sci-fi adventure Everything Everywhere All At Once, which follows a woman who hops through the multiverse exploring different versions of herself, is also in contention. Bafta nominations 2023: All Quiet On The Western Front leads with 14 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Let's face it: The Republican Party has gone crazy and not in a fun, madcap, "let's get nuts" way. Worst Republicans of 2022: It's just so hard to choose! 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Any night that includes Germany missing the knockout stage for an unthinkable two World Cups in a row yet renders that one of its secondary impressions does qualify as madcap. On a queasy night in Group E, Japan exults, Spain exhales and Germany exits 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Even though it’s a story that has a lot more going on in it and at times is crazy and madcap, that plotline is so, so real. The 'Bad Sisters' cast on the liberating joys of attempted murder 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It was madcap and haphazard and the perfect antidote to the perfection of the other Pasadena parade. That time L.A. got jealous of Pasadena and started its own flowery parade 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Echoing the film, the score is a madcap blend of tones. Danny Elfman brought all of his selves to the 'White Noise' score 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z For Dylan, songs aren’t just artworks to be analyzed and explicated; they’re visions that beget visions, prompts for his own madcap and macabre yarn-spinning. Bob Dylan's new book is revealing, misogynistic and a special kind of bonkers 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z But Wilson sharpened every edge and kept pace with every madcap turn, every catastrophic collision. Review | 3 operas in 3 days? With Met’s powerful fall trio, it was energizing. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z As for Adès’ “The Exterminating Angel Symphony,” it contains the most madcap music from his most recent opera, which was based on the Luis Buñuel film. Commentary: Conductor Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla has changed symphonic life. It's changed her too 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z A chameleon with a sneaky subversive streak, Tomlin contained madcap multitudes. Review: At the Taper, SNL's Cecily Strong takes on Lily Tomlin's beloved one woman show 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z One described the dash to stores when bottles drop as “Cannonball Run,” referring to the ’80s movie about a madcap car race. Prosecutors allege an inside job. The target? Rare bourbon. 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Maybe they will even revel in how madcap a sport can be when the ball doesn’t bounce the same way every time you drop it. Analysis | Kansas is 3-0. Yeah, Kansas is 3-0. That’s right, Kansas is 3-0. 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z It was a deal that perhaps only these two madcap general managers could have conjured up. How Jerry Dipoto pulled off the most important trade of the Mariners’ rebuild 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “Lend Me a Soprano” inverts Ludwig’s madcap screwball comedy “Lend Me a Tenor” by having women take the three lead parts, a change he initiated so that a whole new raft of comedians could shine. Playwright Ken Ludwig reworks genders of ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z "Bullet Train has no shortage of giddy, madcap gusto, hoping to satiate hardcore genre fans with its bloody, over-the-top violence and rising body count," continued Tim Grierson. Bullet Train: Brad Pitt film leaves critics wanting to get off 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Adrian Monkee: In “The Case of the Believer,” Adrian joins the madcap band with his clarinet as he tries to decipher the rock and the roll. Style Invitational Week 1495: We all need a break 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Bush, famously, is a gaffe specialist, the purveyor of scrambled-hash syntax, madcap circumlocutions, spoonerisms and other “Bushisms” that have haunted the internet — or as Bush would have it, internets — for decades. When George W. Bush Confused Russia’s War in Ukraine With Iraq 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z After a series of events worthy of a madcap satirical short story, the Believer magazine is back with its original publisher. The Believer, after twists and turns, is back with McSweeney's 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Waters’ madcap fun travels well into a new medium. 10 books to add to your reading list in May 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Barr goes to incredible lengths to excuse Trump's crude and ignorant behavior as president portraying him as a sort of unruly teenager whose "madcap rhetoric" and "imprecise comments" would get him into scrapes. Bill Barr's pride gets in the way: Trump's top lackey just blew up his own redemption tour 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, who recently shared their madcap musings with an audience of white supremacists in Florida. ‘Mitt unplugged’: Romney, the Republican Party’s conscience, is telling it like it is 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z This potential crash course of skating will be set with Trusova barreling down the ice to the rock-and-roll sounds from the soundtrack of the movie “Cruella,” a perfect fit for her madcap style. Analysis | Kamila Valieva — and the dark cloud of a doping case — returns as figure skating resumes 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z I’m very interested to know what her content was like on a platform known for being a little bit madcap. The words and rhymes of alleged Bitcoin launderer Razzlekhan 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Louisville: The Cardinals have had quite the madcap road trip and have so far handled it in style. Van Lith scores 34 as No. 4 Louisville tops Clemson 93-71 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Much of the doings were madcap, but, in retrospect, it sure was fun. Opinion | Madcap fun in the newsrooms of yore 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z And after a madcap 24 hours of behind-the-scenes machinations, the word “Anyone?” had been replaced by “BACK ON,” confirmation of the success of that quest. WSU Cougars’ Sun Bowl saga indicative of college football’s COVID-caused bowl issues 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z “If this was some kind of Hollywood farce or a madcap political comedy, you would say that’s not credible even for a fake show,” said Kelda Roys, a Democratic state senator. Wisconsin Republicans push to take over the state’s elections 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Shutdown certainly helped turn that madcap world of roadside zoo folk into a hit series. 'Tiger King 2’ is the pinnacle of reality TV cynicism 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The actors josh with each other and the audience in the madcap communal spirit of commedia dell’arte troupers. Review: The troubled Go-Go's musical "Head Over Heels" finds festive redemption 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Known for the madcap exuberance of “Shaun of the Dead” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” Wright has taken an unexpected turn into a moody and unnerving psychological horror thriller. How Edgar Wright set out to challenge himself, and the past, with 'Last Night in Soho' 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z And skeptics of the coup terminology also suggested that Trump's efforts were little more than madcap and incompetent political theater. Will the mainstream media ever face its failure to tell the truth about Jan. 6? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Or was it the madcap real estate market, with staggeringly high rents in a country where most Afghans barely made $2 a day? The bursting 'Ka-bubble': Taliban extremism is remaking a once-cosmopolitan Kabul 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z His otherworldly music was matched by a madcap persona, captured on film in the 2008 documentary “The Upsetter,” that only accentuated his fame. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, a mad scientist in the recording studio, dies at 85 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z At midnight on monday, May 17, the team started its madcap scavenger hunt at an undisclosed location in the north. Extreme Birding Competition Is a Cutthroat Test of Skill, Strategy and Endurance 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Embracing the spirit of Old Comedy, Matt Walker, who adapted and directed this madcap update set in Malibu, encourages his troupe to pull out all the vaudevillian stops. Review: Liza plus Aristophanes equals the bedazzling camp of 'Lizastrata' at the Getty Villa 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z They are 5-month-old Bengal kittens, inseparable siblings who resemble tiny leopards and behave like madcap professional wrestlers with a side gig in street parkour. Opinion | I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z And while this madcap energy has delivered some success, the streaming era has highlighted the large gaps in the available distribution models. Netflix isn’t the savior Nollywood needs 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z A comic bit about visiting a psychiatrist became a madcap tale of wordplay and philosophical absurdity — the Marx Brothers filtered through Abbott and Costello. Jackie Mason, onetime rabbi who became a Broadway standup star, dies at 93 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z The few that did elbow their way into the memory bank included a madcap beast back on Oct. Alabama’s much-maligned defense gets to show how far it’s come vs. Ohio State in CFP title game 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z In this cultural craziness, the season landscape would change in the way season landscapes do in this madcap sport: on the fleeting matters of the young. Analysis | LSU’s win brings some normal senselessness to this abnormal college football season 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The madcap variety show was like Looney Tunes by way of golden-age Saturday Night Live, a pre-social media era meme factory that seemed more interested in parodying show business and celebrity than actually entertaining children. Hulu’s Animaniacs reboot can’t survive a BoJack Horseman world 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z “Beautiful Ruins,” out in 2012, was a madcap, time- and style-shifting work, and its breakthrough success slowed progress on the follow-up. How Jess Walter went from Hollywood satirist to Steinbeck's modern heir 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z That leaves the remaining 22 candidates in a madcap battle of musical chairs for the other. Opinion | How to solve a 23-way D.C. Council election frenzy 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z I began gulping milk in a madcap attempt to deactivate the bomb. Review | Roaming Rooster serves fried chicken sandwiches so good, you’ll say, ‘Popeyes who?’ 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Catcher Yogi Berra leapt into Larsen’s arms, the madcap embrace captured in a photo that became a classic baseball image. Don Larsen, Yankee Who Pitched Only Perfect Game in World Series History, Dies at 90 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The madcap, mustaches comedian with a fondness for confetti-throwing became a television game show mainstay in the 1970s. Passages: Remembering those we lost in 2019 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The madcap, mustached comedian with a fondness for confetti-throwing who became a television game show mainstay in the 1970s. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z But rather than some kind of hodgepodge of ideas from other books and movies, “Knives Out” feels singular, wholly of itself with a spirit of madcap invention. 'Knives Out' ending explained: How Rian Johnson's socially relevant mystery pays tribute to the past 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z I guess I could theorize about how the show’s madcap pace mimics our crisis-ridden news cycle, but some days silly just hits the spot. “Evil,” “9-1-1,” and the Appeal of the Network Procedural 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z And even broken plays turned into madcap displays of beauty. In a fast-paced shootout, the Wizards come up one play short against the Rockets 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Rip Taylor, the madcap mustached comedian with a fondness for confetti-throwing who became a television game-show mainstay in the 1970s, died Oct. Rip Taylor, madcap comic personality, dies at 88 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z He wrote a friend, “I am told that one of the madcaps talks of impeachment.” ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z With a few madcap ideas and a song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams. Movies on TV this week Sept. 8, 2019 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z A swimwear designer’s sister mistakes a madcap masseur for the captain of a polo team. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Tate “goes through” the strictly unnecessary medium of figurative language rather than stating things straightforwardly, and uses his madcap style as a vehicle for implying other, graver things. The Last Poems of James Tate 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z But its madcap delirium can’t hide its insistent politics, its disdain for sham populism and its compassion for the disenfranchised. Review: ‘Diamantino’ is an inspired blast of lunacy, with giant puppies 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z With its high-energy score and madcap characters, it was a long-running hit off-Broadway. New in L.A. theater: Tap-happy ‘Dames at Sea’? Time for ‘Dancing Lessons’ 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Fortunately, Rachel and Jack accidentally unlock a full copy of Ashley’s consciousness in Ashley Too, kicking off a madcap plot to foil Catherine’s plan. In "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too," Black Mirror does teen comedy 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Floating in an unconvincing middle ground between realism and madcap fantasy, “The Fall of the American Empire” is at its best when Arcand is taking his potshots from a sly side angle. Review | ‘The Fall of the American Empire’ combines comedy and deep thought, with mixed results 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Music and comedy madcap Tim Heidecker celebrates the release of his latest album, “What the Brokenhearted Do…,” with a full band performance at new comedy and entertainment hot spot Dynasty Typewriter. Best live music in L.A.: Playboy Jazz Festival, Go West Fest and more 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Its madcap humor and biting satire dissect and elucidate the horrors of war. Readers react to coverage of George Clooney's 'Catch-22' and more 'Game of Thrones' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z In New York she became part of the madcap scene around Warhol’s Factory, and served as a muse to photographer Richard Avedon, who shot her for Vogue. Genevieve Waite, who made the ’60s scene with John Phillips and Mick Jagger, dies 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z It captures the madcap fun of trying to keep up when your story’s subject really won’t cooperate. Verge Science just won a Webby Award 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The match here last season was a madcap classic, which ended 2-2, and neutrals would like something similar today. Liverpool v Tottenham: Premier League – live! 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Some of Adès’s madcap writing in the concerto may doff a hat to Busoni’s Mephistophelian masterpiece. The Concerto Challenge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The troubled club’s managerial carousel whizzed out of control under the madcap ownership of Maurizio Zamparini, as he pulled the trigger eight times, making nine changes, with two of them being the same man. Football goes to Hollywood: when real-life action pops up in films and TV | The Knowledge 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Originally from Sweden, but now living in San Francisco, the inventor made her name on YouTube by creating madcap machines that appear to help with everyday tasks from applying lipstick to eating breakfast. 'Why I sent my brain tumour to Antarctica' 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s filled with vast planetary landscapes and space battles, prison breaks and snarky dialogue, conflicting loyalties and madcap fight scenes. Sci-fi space opera series The Vela tackles the fate of a solar system with an all-star writing team 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z So Dolly devises a madcap plan to trick him into proposing. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ hits the Pantages with goofy charm and a glorious Betty Buckley 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z She was discovered by Spike Jones, the leader of a madcap comic big band, and joined his vaudeville touring group. Kaye Ballard, comic actress and singer from vaudeville to TV, dies at 93 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z As with “The Big Short,” mileage will vary from viewer to viewer as to how surprising or entertaining “Vice” is, beyond the madcap flourishes of its own self-conscious style. Review | Christian Bale nails it as Dick Cheney in ‘Vice,’ but the rest of the movie is an absurd mess 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z There’s bathroom humor, singing and a madcap detour through the local shopping mall. ‘Ride from Hell’: Carpooling in the Age of Uber Can Be…Awkward 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “Gloriously madcap” is how the Guardian’s Dominic Fifield described Bournemouth’s come-from-behind victory by the odd goal of seven when they stunned Liverpool at the Vitality Stadium a little over two years ago. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s got escapism, it's a little camp, it's a little arch, it looks amazing, it's got wonderful madcap characters. The conversation: A chat with Ashley Jensen on her return to 'Agatha Raisin' 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z A repeat of April’s madcap drama seems unlikely, but here’s hoping. Cardiff v Wolves: Premier League – live! 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z When Cash works as a caller, we see him magically crash into the living rooms or bathrooms of the strangers he is calling across the country, in madcap sequences. Hysterical surrealism? A pop culture for our age of economic insecurity 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z And different samples marketed under the same madcap varietal name — White Widow, for example — often turned out to have wildly divergent genetics. What legal weed in Canada means for science 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Yet Liverpool’s scouts were so impressed by the madcap keeper they badgered Paisley into buying Grobbelaar. Bruce Grobbelaar: ‘How many people did I kill? I couldn’t tell you’ | Donald McRae 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s got escapism, it's a little camp ... it looks amazing, it's got ... madcap characters. The conversation: A chat with Ashley Jensen on her return to 'Agatha Raisin' 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Credico is seen in New York political circles as a dedicated if madcap activist. Mueller’s Office Will Grill Him About Roger Stone. He Will Respond With Comedy. 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s a sort of madcap pop that seeks to represent inequality through exuberant weirdness. Hysterical surrealism? A pop culture for our age of economic insecurity 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z In The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Vyse explores juggling her career and motherhood through madcap games and set pieces, but it features a starring role for young Henry. Booze, bankruptcy, brain haemorrhage: the comics turning tragedy into laughs 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z I mention these reference points not to define the limits of Riley’s movie, but only to suggest something of its singular and heroically madcap spirit. Review: Boots Riley's 'Sorry to Bother You' is an arrestingly surreal satire on class rage and cultural identity 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z He played this madcap character called Frank Spencer who was a kind of naive fool, really, and very much a sort of clown — he was a man who just got it all wrong. The conversation: A chat with Ashley Jensen on her return to 'Agatha Raisin' 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Surely the 30 minutes to come will more closely resemble the madcap first five minutes of the game than the sometimes sloppy next 85. Shootout Sunday: Croatia Follows Russia’s Lead and Wins on Penalty Kicks 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z “Hi, I’m Pat,” a madcap violinist said Sunday morning to a group of boisterous children sitting on the ground before her. This year's Ojai Music Festival was bright, and dark, and very very hot 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Liverpool then went to Arsenal and a madcap game ended 3-3 after the visitors shipped three goals in five minutes. Andy Robertson: ‘The problem with Real Madrid is they’re all fantastic’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The movie’s sense of moment-to-moment chaos — madcap scenes of bellowing, falling, tumbling and general agitating — is scarcely accidental. Terry Gilliam gets his long-overdue moment with ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ at Cannes 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Things turn more madcap still when you get to the dioramas — large and small art installations about journalistic repression under Communism and about the media in Russia today. Letter of Recommendation: Tiny Museums 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z A madcap start gave way to 41 more prosaic minutes, and the score is tied, 1-1. Shootout Sunday: Croatia Follows Russia’s Lead and Wins on Penalty Kicks 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z That moment, more than any other, summed up a semifinal that veered between mesmerizing and madcap, that even Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool’s manager, called “crazy.” Champions League: Liverpool Ousts Roma in Heart-Stopping Rout 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z He began his career when wrestling still maintained the pretense of a quasi-legitimate sport and was not the madcap spectacle it would later become. Bruno Sammartino, ‘Living Legend’ champion of pro wrestling, dies at 82 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Adverse weather threw her off-course, but the madcap stunt made headlines across the world. What modern campaigners can learn from the fight for women’s suffrage 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z This was a blistering derby, the goals crammed into a madcap first period but the visitors’ pressure so nearly telling through the latter stages. Wilfried Zaha’s double clinches huge derby triumph for Crystal Palace 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Others want to enliven our space with a madcap array of fun prints, a gold chandelier and the tunes turned up. The daring side of spring home décor | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Not even the Pythons in their 1960s pomp could match the surreal madcap nature of the presidency, he insisted. Donald Trump is funnier than Monty Python, says Terry Gilliam 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z His madcap ideas to save humanity from itself have even earned him the honour of a parody Twitter account, "Bored Elon Musk". The man who sent his sports car into space 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Under the direction of Sean San José, the rest of the cast matches them in madcap energy, rattling off one-liners with machine-gun accuracy while somehow maintaining an improvisational rhythm to the show. Culture Clash skewers immigration policy in wickedly wild 'Sapo' 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Liverpool didn’t deserve to be out of the lead and stormed back in a madcap nine-minute spell around the hour mark when City’s defense was ripped apart. City’s unbeaten run in EPL ends with 4-3 loss at Liverpool 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z On album 23, the flashes of brilliance that run through Sparks’ madcap chamber pop burn brighter than they have for decades. The best albums of 2017: the full list 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z There is no overall designer for the project; it’s a mishmash of inspiration, innovation and madcap enthusiasm. Bloomington students building truck inspired by movie 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z This is when the plot goes from madcap to gaily mad. 'Something Rotten!' delivers on fluffy, fizzy, frolicsome fun – LA Times 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore, the madcap comedy is set in a suburb in the '50s in the aftermath of a crime. 'Jigsaw' scores latest bull's-eye for horror at the box office and brings to end a sluggish October 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Michael Copps, a former Federal Communications Commission commissioner, called it a “madcap threat” that, “if pursued, would be blatant and unacceptable intervention in the decisions of an independent agency.” Trump threatens networks, saying it's 'disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want' 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The Yankees survived the Twins’ initial barrage, weathered the madcap opening innings and rampaged into their first AL Division Series since 2012 with an 8-4 victory. MLB playoffs start with a bang as Yankees win frenetic AL wild-card game 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Toast your initiation properly with the Homegrown, a madcap mix of Chattanooga whiskey reserve, Mexican coke and salted peanuts. You’re going where? Chattanooga 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z But I kind of missed the madcap intensity of those old 1D shows, back when Harry and his mates seemed not at all concerned with demonstrating their taste or maturity. Harry Styles brought thousands of teens to the Greek Theatre. We sent two adults 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z In just 24 hours, the issue unfurled a bit like a madcap comedy: frantic, scattershot and befuddled — though headed toward a potentially tidy resolution. Trump and Democrats strike DACA deal. Yes? No? Sort of? Trump’s world can be confusing. 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In his second feature film, “The Death of Stalin,” he travels back to 1950s Russia only to find an expectedly timely tale of the madcap machinations of political power. Toronto Film Fest lineup will generate buzz, and debates 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z That’s especially the case in Silicon Valley, where pivoting has become the new failure, a concept to describe a haphazard, practically madcap form of iterative development. In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore — Everybody ‘Pivots’ 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z He offset his madcap image with a studied elegance, though he would usually find an occasion to stuff something in his ears. A stage comedian and movie star, Jerry Lewis was also very much a man of television 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The often madcap and sometimes hilariously perplexing 30-minute panel -- led by David's gruff wit and deadpans -- kicked off with a teaser for the season. 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' returns this fall -- and you can expect a 'Pirates of the Caribbean' vibe? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z While Jones lives his madcap life, Cormier is a former Olympic wrestler with a late-blooming MMA career and a stable family existence in the Bay Area. Daniel Cormier’s rivalry with Jon Jones peaks at UFC 214 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z But this is not just a madcap adventure. The Strange Quest to Catch a Massive Greenland Shark 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z He revolutionized the presentation of motion pictures with the addition of the prologue, gala premieres and madcap promotions. Who was Sid Grauman anyway? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z That madcap minute rather summed it all up. John Terry makes his mark in last-gasp Chelsea win over battling Watford 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z “L.A. to Vegas,” a workplace comedy about an airline crew and the madcap group of passengers who every weekend take a round-trip flight from the City of Angels to Sin City. Wednesday becomes a full night of music on Fox, and more shuffles coming to the network in 2017-18 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Last, bring in the various regional interests — China, Russia, Iran and the madcap collection of ’stans — to support this. Opinion | This four-step process for Afghanistan sounds super simple 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z It stuck to its same old tune at the weekend condemning “madcap American nuclear war manoeuvres aimed at trampling on our sovereignty and right to survival”. US carrot and stick approach to North Korea is clumsy but significant 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Forty-five further minutes of madcap fun to follow. Bournemouth 4-0 Middlesbrough, West Ham 0-0 Everton and more – as it happened 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z North Korea said on Friday the state of affairs on the Korean peninsula was "extremely perilous" because of "madcap American nuclear war maneuvers aimed at trampling on our sovereignty and right to survival." South Korea on heightened alert as North Korea readies for army anniversary 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z He’s also, in manner and moviemaking, unflappable and precise - quite unlike the madcap mania of “The Play That Goes Wrong.” With British farce, J.J. Abrams makes his Broadway debut 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z He’s also, in manner and moviemaking, unflappable and precise — quite unlike the madcap mania of “The Play That Goes Wrong.” With British farce, J.J. Abrams makes his Broadway debut 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In the end, and like other Apatow projects, it mixes the madcap with the poignant, Hollywood structure with details drawn from life. In 'Crashing,' amiable comedian Pete Holmes returns to his early struggles to break into show biz 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Welding an active imagination with scientific thought, Churchill produced a few madcap ideas — which he called “funnies” — that he championed while he was prime minister, as a means to defeat Nazi Germany. Lost Winston Churchill essay considers possibility of life on other planets 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Welding an active imagination with scientific thought, Churchill produced a few madcap ideas — which he called “funnies” — that he actually championed while he was prime minister, as a means to defeat Nazi Germany. Winston Churchill: Statesman, Writer and Believer in Extraterrestrials 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Bill Johns brims with madcap vigor in a quartet of supporting roles. Checking in with a Marx Brothers comedy at Taproot 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z He paused so that his students could repeat after him, as if they were reciting some madcap catechism. The Deportees Taking Our Calls 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z This delightfully madcap, sharply observant musical comedy is the kind of show that we’ll look back on one day and think, “I can’t believe that was on network television.” From 'Full Frontal' to 'Fleabag,' it was a fertile year for television 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It is occasions as utterly madcap as this that completely undermine Liverpool’s credentials as title challengers. Bournemouth battle from behind to stun Liverpool with Nathan Aké winner 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Gonzalez had tied the score in the top of Saturday’s madcap eighth inning. Clayton Kershaw has plenty left in his arm to lead Dodgers to 1-0 win over Cubs 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The Cubs are a thoroughly modern team whose hitters take madcap from-the-heels swings. Forecast for Baseball Playoffs: Persistent Drought 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z At the end of that madcap somersault bit, he dizzily stumbles through a door and exits the stage. For Some Athletes, Olympic Rings Give Way to the Circus Ring 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z This was one of those madcap occasions of which the Premier League is so proud, a contest that had once appeared a mismatch eventually providing a compelling if improbable turnaround. Diego Costa seizes Chelsea a point after Swansea’s rapid turnaround 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z There is a madcap sense of invention to the shifting dynamics of the room and the unending series of standoffs. Toronto 2016: Ben Wheatley's 'Free Fire' has a fittingly raucous premiere 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z I spent most of a day talking with Morales, in the hopes of being able to publish an interview with him, and recall him as having a madcap sense of humor. The American Fugitives of Havana 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But the vibe here is so all over the place it can’t fairly be called madcap — just mad. Remembering Gene Wilder: In (not-quite) defense of 'Silver Streak' 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z In this historically madcap election season, it is only fitting that the presidential race would collide with America’s other overbaked news-hogging national spectacle: football. Can We Mix the Debates and the NFL? 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z On the small screen, their adventures were madcap and carefree. ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’: Light on story, heavy on cameos and slapstick 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s not clear, seven months away from his inauguration, whether Trump will cave first on his madcap Mexican wall or his half-baked ban on Muslim visitors. What would electing Donald Trump be like? Like Brexit | Richard Wolffe 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z And when you review the madcap history of contested conventions, you can see why. The convention that could have been: Mourning the Trump/Cruz open convention we’ll never have 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The event promises "madcap events will defy the laws of physics" in venues including Cardiff Castle and the National Museum. Casting call out for 6,000 Roald Dahl event volunteers - BBC News 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Two Leigh Griffiths goals in a madcap win over Motherwell moved defending champions Celtic eight points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership. Motherwell 1-2 Celtic 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Sexton's conversion put the game away, but still there was a last act of defiance from Dunbar, the final score in a madcap Test. Six Nations 2016: Ireland 35-25 Scotland 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The play is madcap on the surface but grippingly serious underneath. Dario Fo at 90: so farce, so good 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z A madcap primary season has proven a huge ratings boon to cable TV, much as a Super Bowl yields the ultimate victory of massive audiences and pricey ad revenue. Who’s Winning the Election? Networks 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Thus, a zany game in which cars crashed into one another became something else entirely, a madcap sport. How 'Rocket League' combined cars with soccer to create video game magic 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z But I'm not sure, even in the madcap world of football administration, a national manager who has never been a boss would be appointed. Why the ENO needs a Fergie - BBC News 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z There have also been a slew of artists who, like Bowie, use madcap style and visual elements to create complex narratives and personas, and they explore wildly different stories from the ones Bowie was telling. Don’t despair about the state of pop – fans are the new subversive force | Sam Wolfson 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The Critic” and “The Real Inspector Hound” The madcap comedies by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Tom Stoppard are staged back to back. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Jan. 7-13, 2016 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Sim’s jubilant, incredulous, madcap romp upon waking Christmas morning to realize he has not in fact been banished to perdition cannot be forgotten no matter how hard you try. Best Christmas films to watch this year 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The same fall, “The Mindy Project,” on Fox, made a brown girl the madcap heroine of a sitcom, not her best friend. One Man’s Crusade to Integrate TV 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z As their madcap journey ensues, our foursome will find plenty of surprises in store. Holiday TV stars chime in on the appeal of made-for-TV Christmas movies 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z What everyone will remember - and vigorously debate - is the madcap finish that lasted for 49 seconds and wasn’t completely decided until a 9-minute review. Wild win: Miami uses 8 laterals in 30-27 win over Duke 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The Pumas’ madcap antics cost them in the semifinals, but true to their word, they didn’t change for the third-place playoff. Springboks finish 3rd at Rugby World Cup 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Mistaken identity at London's Waterloo Station leads to a madcap evening of emotional risk-taking for the romantically challenged Lake Bell and the newly divorced Simon Pegg. 'Spectre,' 'Star Wars,' 'Hateful 8' ... a guide to every holiday movie you need to see 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Welcome to Night Vale ditches the sex and hallucinogens, marrying the rest with a madcap deadpan familiar to readers of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. Welcome to Night Vale: book attempts to can the uncanny and falls flat 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The party, the argument went, would position itself for victory in 2016 by avoiding an embarrassing circus and steering clear of a madcap process that tarnished the party and its candidates alike. RNC chair: 'We're cooked as a party' with 2016 loss 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z He also got a bit – but only a bit – of the madcap humor that the Monkees brought to the mid-’60s scene in a version of their “She.” Jakob Dylan and friends hear California of yesteryear at Echo in the Canyon 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s one of the great films of the past decade: Playful, erudite, funny, talky, suspenseful and madcap, it both loves and laughs at the conventions of genre movies while reimagining and updating them. The Gonzo Vision of Quentin Tarantino 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Scotland responded through Tommy Seymour and from that moment it was madcap stuff. Scotland get it right when it counts 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z It's a pointed, and explicitly pointed-out, reminder that David Tennant's and Smith's young and madcap Doctors still live within him: "It's my party, and all of me are invited." The Doctor is in again, and in finer fettle than before 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The whole day is a madcap celebration of spending your hard-earned money on the latest and greatest "Star Wars" toys, T-shirts and even droid-covered backpacks. Listen to 'Star Wars: Episode VII's' new villain Kylo Ren speak 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z After 53 years on the air, the madcap variety show is ending its run on Sept. 19. Counting down to the end of 'Sabado Gigante' with Don Francisco 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Now, millions of sales later, and with Borderlands 2 distinguishing itself as publisher 2K Games' best-selling title, few would question the wisdom of developing that madcap game. Randy Pitchford on Battleborn, the new genre-busting game from the makers of Borderlands 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z How the scoreline remained blank was a mystery amid madcap defending, brilliant goalkeeping, rattled woodwork and two halves divided between Liverpool's supremacy for the first 45 minutes and Arsenal's recovery after the break. Redemption time for 'brilliant' Cech 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Max out on the Marx brothers with the madcap 1930s-era comedies "Monkey Business," "Horse Feathers," "Duck Soup," "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races." TV This Week, Aug. 9-15: 'The Theory of Everything' on HBO 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z And Wilder’s “Some Like it Hot,” that majestically madcap 1959 comedy, was based on a 1935 French film called “Fanfares of Love.” With a new ‘Vacation’, a look at laughable comedy remakes 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z She strikes a welcome madcap note in what is otherwise a series of bland medium shots of people talking. Woody Allen revisits the murder mystery genre with ‘Irrational Man’ 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The D.M.K. made M.G.R. a star: his madcap energy gave their films the wild charisma they needed to carry their message. What Happens When a State Is Run by Movie Stars? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Secondly, the film is so fast and madcap that it doesn’t really pause to milk some of the more interesting story turns for their comedic value. 'Minions' Review: Sandra Bullock And Jon Hamm Steal The Show 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “They reflect the craziness of my world, wrapped around music and standup and stories about this madcap world that I inhabit.” Sandra Bernhard on today's young actors: 'They don’t have personalities' 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Name of restaurant: Madcapra, a name that combines madcap and capra, which means goat in Latin, opened May 6 in downtown L.A.'s Grand Central Market. Madcapra at Grand Central Market serves falafel, flatbread and sumac-beet soda 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Unlike the blog, however, she focused less on the gossip and more on the madcap excitement of showbiz. Twitter Celeb @BroadwayGirlNYC Talks Anonymity, Positivity On Social Media 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Set at an artists’ retreat in Florence, it is slightly less madcap than “Sunset,” but no less funny and smart. Bricklayer, Bird-Watcher, Literary Sensation 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z "On the Twentieth Century," a madcap 1930s comedy that takes place on a luxury train traveling from Chicago to New York, has been nominated for five Tony awards. Kristin Chenoweth juggles dual roles as Tonys co-host, nominee 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It will reach a broader audience when it is broadcast live on national television on election night, its madcap finale scheduled to coincide with the polls closing. Election fever puts politics centre-stage in London 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z That’s what the folks at “Living on Love” have pulled off with the madcap comedy about an opera singer, featuring Renee Fleming. Review: Renee Fleming delightful in madcap ‘Living on Love’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z “Century” is filled with delightfully improbable madcap action, flamboyant musical numbers and polished, inventive choreography by Warren Carlyle. Theater: Chenoweth soars in manic ‘On the Twentieth Century’ 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z When Becki Johnson’s busy life as a wife, mother and executive assistant gets too hectic, she seeks a break from the madcap modern grind: She plays video keno. When is a casino a big casino? The question vexes Vegas, regulators 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The connective tissue between all three of these madcap projects is that they were technically intended for kids. A Case For A Kid-Friendly 'Pee-Wee' Comeback Movie 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In City Hunter, the camera angles are madcap and the colors super-bright. Seoul Surfing: A crash course in Korean TV 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The show ran at a New York festival a few months ago to critical acclaim, with The New York Times calling it a “hilarious madcap political farce,” The Post reported. ‘Clinton the Musical’ hits off-Broadway, just in time for campaign season 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z This was also a very expensive project that made little sense and drew much criticism at the wasteful expense of madcap politicians. Kalakala: Politicians need to take a risk and stand up for its restoration 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z One was that of Robin Williams, 63, whose madcap, quicksilver comedy, resurrected in endless video-clip tributes, may have drowned out in our memories the more sensitive lines he delivered as an often underappreciated actor. Looking Back: Those We Lost in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Innovation should not just be the madcap race to create more powerful devices with more and more storage capacity. Just say no to digital hoarding 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Looking at the debut trailer, it seems all the madcap physics and bizarre bugs are present. Finally, a 'World of Warcraft' clone where you play as a goat magician 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Next came four years of civic excitement and sometimes madcap governance. How Jane Byrne manhandled Chicago's Democratic machine 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Mondays are madcap meatball night, with every variety imaginable served, even vegetarian. Restaurants: Go, Consider, Stop 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente says the puppets “have a madcap energy to them” that helps “Sesame Street” compete with the many other kids shows that are animated. Sesame Street marks 45th birthday 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z And after another madcap college football evening that saw 999 total yards, two new realities took hold. Late Ole Miss fumble proves to be the difference in loss to Auburn It's a thrilling glimpse inside the madcap mind of the man Google believes is building the future of computing. Watch this surreal, psychedelic TED talk from the guy Google just gave $500 million 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z |
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