| 单词 | misfit |
| 例句 | They are a unit of malcontents, a troop of social misfits. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So there will be a whole tot of us going to the dance together, misfits and fits, couples and not. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Just three misfit witches, a red glow all around them, and the unmistakable truth that Seven was a Spare. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The Home was a misfit operation, lost over the years in a larger system. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It might have been nice, but I knew it wasn’t going to happen for the misfit in the stands no matter how good I was feeling. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Flannery would take me away from here and deposit me into her fictitious world crawling with self-righteous saints and larger-than-life misfits. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The other students were misfits, they all seemed to have dirty hair and oversized mouths and shrunken foreheads and in my estimation were as dumb as the dead. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “But why are the toys all misfits? Square wheels on a train can be fixed easily enough.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z And I, for once, felt completely normal among this group of misfits. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I had little idea what it really involved, but at least it had to be better than the made-up misfit sports we had to play in elementary school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Yes, they’re expecting me—I hope not just for the purpose of denouncing me as a chemical misfit. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were artsy misfits who dressed exclusively in concert tees and ragged flannels, and it was those brooding qualities that intrigued me more than the cookie-cutter athlete and cheerleader types. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Rudolph was a reindeer misfit because of his glowing red nose, and Hermey was an elf misfit because he didn’t like making toys. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “It is illogical to say he is a misfit just because he chooses to ride a different animal, provided he can carry out his cowboy duties.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I figured it was because I knew he would have a good comeback, or maybe it was because he wasn’t a regular in the cast of misfits who hung out at Fang’s. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “What’s so weird about it, Cochran? The boy’s obviously a misfit. He tried in his small ineffectual way to damage the sale and he succeeded in doing the opposite. The school rallied against him.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Since we didn’t have a mother at home, Junior and I were the misfits in our community. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I'm as much of a lone wolf or a misfit or a weirdo as anyone. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He already felt like enough of a misfit without trying to explain his new undead minion. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t bother you at all that she called us misfit toys?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “And what’s wrong with the doll, anyway? Why is it a misfit? It seems to adhere to the standards of a typical doll.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Alas, this gaggle of uncoordinated misfits was rounded up each week and made to play some sort of sport against each other. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In other words: people who are misfits because they’re just who they are instead of “fits,” who are like everybody else. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “He rides an ostrich instead of a horse. That has got to make him a misfit.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The Bacon family didn't mind the misfit food, but soon they found out I was the greater misfit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what the ‘misfit’ means, but I know that part of it is a yearning for a different sort of way.” Opera’s ‘Island of Misfit Toys’ Takes Its Biggest Stage Yet 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z He realized that visionary misfits and troublemakers such as William Blake, van Gogh, T.E. UFOs, alien abductions, the occult: to one man, the building blocks of scholarship 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z He was a kindred misfit, a damaged boy with a difficult history. My fantasies of mass murder 2013-03-05T01:00:00Z "Strictly Ballroom" tells the story of two dancing misfits who team up to try to win a ballroom contest. Plans Under Way for 'Strictly Ballroom' on Stage 2010-09-23T23:12:00Z While they existed concurrently with the third wave of ska in the 1990s, which saw bands such as Reel Big Fish and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones become alternative radio breakout stars, the Slackers were misfits. The Slackers are the ska stalwarts who keep on going 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z These are unexpectedly high stakes but, like the love-struck misfits they play, the stars of “WandaVision” see them as reasons to be more understanding of each other, snot and all. Marvel’s Latest Frontier? In ‘WandaVision,’ It’s the Suburbs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Kesha presents her audience as a brood of misfits and outcasts — though not quite as large as Lady Gaga’s following — but here it’s clear she feels for them underneath their emulatory makeup. Television Review: ‘Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life,’ a Documentary on MTV 2013-04-22T21:45:35Z But that empathy for unglamorous misfits and anti-heroes will no doubt be tested again in “A Great Wilderness,” a new Hunter drama commissioned by Seattle Repertory Theatre. ‘A Great Wilderness’ has world premiere at Seattle Rep 2014-01-15T21:32:35Z Taken together, the writings form an episodic account of a complex persona under construction, the public face of a man who was at once a ruthless opportunist and a creative misfit. We’re Still Talking About Gauguin 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z But I think it’s just this idea of being a social misfit. Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl on the Future of the Web Series 2012-07-10T15:00:54Z “I thought it was such a misfit, but it’s turning out to be a lot more popular than the kid I thought it was,” he said by phone in reaction the news of his award. James Hannaham wins $15,000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z But it was Anthony Perkins's maternally obsessed misfit in Psycho who most perfectly distilled the modern fear of the monster who looks just like you. Psycho: the No 1 horror film 2010-10-22T10:54:00Z Though he recalled being a well-liked athlete in high school, “on the inside I was a misfit kid,” he said. Arts & Leisure: Emma Watson?s Personal Journey to the Suburbs From Hogwarts 2011-10-05T12:00:00Z Satisfying as the standup rhythm is, “The Bedwetter,” which opened Tuesday at the Linda Gross Theater, is sometimes, like its title character, a bit of a misfit. Review: Sarah Silverman’s ‘Bedwetter’ Musical Has Sprung a Leak 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Ethan Stiefel, a former American Ballet Theater principal, returns as the narcissistic Cooper Nielsen, this time judging which of the misfits will make the cut. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Now we all get to be the island of misfit toys in Brooklyn together. Afropunk Festival Brings Music, Dancing and Haute Street Fashion to Brooklyn 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Kendrick is in London to promote Pitch Perfect 2 – the sequel to the hit comedy about an a cappella choir of lovable misfits. Anna Kendrick: real girl in la-la land 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Told in fragmented, strobe-lighted chapters that depict an assortment of misfits, outsiders and eccentrics, the novel sometimes feels like the TV show “The Office” as rewritten with a magnifying glass by Nicholson Baker. Books of The Times: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence 2011-03-31T21:14:33Z “Americana music is the island of the misfit toys; I am such a misfit,” Carlile said, accepting the second award. Grammys 2019: Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves Make It a Year for Women 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Glee, which follows a group of American high school misfits who form a singing club, will pay tribute to Monteith in a special episode to be broadcast in the US next week. Glee star died of drug cocktail 2013-10-03T08:12:56Z “The misfit doesn’t climb in pursuit of safety or profit; she climbs to tell stories,” Coel said that day onstage. Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z They thanked him for helping them "tell the story about misfits who find redemption," said they looked forward to working with him in the future and expressed concern about "character assassinations" and "weaponizing mob mentality." Gillan's great point about "Guardians of the Galaxy" 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z With that, we open our eyes and make the leap from the floor to card tables, which turns the whole show into sort of an arts-and-crafts session for misfits. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z His response: to bring together “the misfits of the industry,” he said, “and be the example — that I’m a beast no matter what.” WilldaBeast, and Other Forces to Be Reckoned With 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The pair already is squeezing out up to 700 bottles of juice a week for distribution throughout the city, sourcing many of the misfits through local produce deliverer From the Farmer. Why entrepreneurs are suddenly finding the beauty in ugly produce 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The kids here are very serious, very devoted to their studies, and that first year I got eight kids who were, honestly, misfits or rebels of one kind or another.” Music: Face the Music, Teenage Alt-Classical Ensemble 2012-03-25T02:43:04Z Anyway, these misfits have a lot in common with those other misfits in The Goonies. The 10 Absolute Best Stranger Things References 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Young Griffin lives with his distracted mother, who dabbles in mosaics made from crushed eggshells, and a series of misfit boarders who compete with Griffin for food, which gives their dysfunctional household a Dickensian-lite atmosphere. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Could stories that are so familiar to many a misfit be too similar to each other? Why ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Never Got Its ‘Lady Bird’ Moment 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z And what I thought then and I still feel now is that it’s because this room was a room full of misfits, outcasts, loners, dreamers, mumblers, delinquents, dropouts. The Artist Wins Best Picture at Independent Spirit Awards 2012-02-26T17:01:53Z But even as these misfits learn to accommodate each other in this dark world, their story is slowly poisoned by a patchwork of grim historical flashbacks, conspiratorial conversations and secret official documents. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future Maybe now “nerd” is a global category, which means that Comic-Con represents a mainstream made up entirely of misfits. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Oddballs, misfits, sad sacks, melancholy, messed-up families — by now we know, or think we know, exactly what we’re going to get. Attention Please, Anne Tyler Has Something to Say 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It is there that she begins to relocate herself, finding a mirror in the “misfits with whom she shares noses and dark hair, restless fits and native tastes.” Dina Nayeri’s ‘Refuge’ Follows the Reinvention of an Exile 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Before the giant ape and the cancan chorus, before the daydreaming misfit and the defiant dancer, before even the dinosaurs and the dragons, first there were the RVs. Four Musicals on Three Continents: An Australian Company’s Big Bet 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z But the book is about so much more: generosity, resentment, racial indifference, Southern misfits, loneliness. New & Noteworthy, From Narco Fiction to Governing California 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z In the engaging but ultimately rudderless Filipino noir “Dead Kids,” a band of teenage misfits cooks up a plan to kidnap the school bully for ransom. ‘Dead Kids’ Review: A Flashy Portrait of Teen Angst Gone Awry 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z So, you know, this is a film that celebrates the outcasts and the misfits and the marginalized and the disenfranchised and the poor. Emilio Estevez on making "The Public," a film about dignity, homelessness and libraries 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Davy is something of a misfit who keeps his head down and sights low. Movie Review | 'Easier With Practice': On the Phone, Alienated and Indulging 2010-02-25T23:33:00Z But the project gave Haley — a misfit at school coming to realize she was gay — a purpose, a peer group and an identity. How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z He introduces her to a band of outsiders and misfits who meet weekly for what they call “choir practice,” a louche and joyful open mic night in an abandoned mall. Bridget Everett Shows Off Her Softer Side. And a Bra. 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But in “The Rover,” he’s received the best reviews of his career for playing a fidgeting, bloodied misfit with a stuttering Southern accent. A new animal kingdom for Michod in ‘The Rover’ 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z I kept turning the pages, following Lydia and Luca, the mother and son, as they flee through Mexico, gathering a misfit band of other migrants. ‘American Dirt’ Plunges Readers Into the Border Crisis 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Strouse's script is less a screenplay than a checklist: A misogynistic misfit takes over a girls' team and discovers that he, gasp, likes these girls -- check. Hoops drama "Winning Season" completely predictable 2010-09-01T23:17:00Z They are lost characters, misfits that travel with the carnival from place to place, drifters with their own rules for life. Horacio Salinas’s Charming Carnival of Creatures 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z "Glee", about an eclectic group of high school misfits in a struggling show choir, won 19 Emmy nominations last week after becoming the most talked-about new show on U.S. television. "Glee" writers drop hints about season No. 2 2010-07-13T19:07:00Z It became a gathering place for a community of outsiders, a daily hangout for 20,000 misfits and their favorite cult bands. Lollapalooza at 20: Highlights, lowlights, revolution and evolution 2011-07-29T05:34:00Z There are serried ranks of wives and lovers and misfits and buttinskies and assorted hangers-on. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Chbosky’s only other published work, 1999’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” concerned a trio of self-styled misfits navigating the complexities of high school, adolescent angst, sexual confusion and assorted personal traumas. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Culture made by and for misfits and oddballs is now a billion-dollar industry, but it wasn’t when the B-52’s played their first gig in 1977, in their Athens, Ga., hometown. The Superbly Original, Gloriously Weird B-52’s Say Farewell to the Road 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Like its sequel, this story of a group of misfits finding each other and forming a makeshift family while fighting a threat that imperils the entire galaxy is smart, action-packed, visually enthralling and surprisingly heartfelt. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z To her, Robert was just part of the creative misfit family. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s the tale of a start-up called Pied Piper and the misfit men running it, who try to navigate the cutthroat big-money digital world as their revolutionary data-compression technology attracts attention. ‘Veep,’ ‘Silicon Valley’ and the Intrusion of Real-Life Events 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Over the years, some of those fans even got to join the influential band that misfit drummer-leader-amateur fisherman Bill Stevenson molded into a perfectionist outlet for fiery, complex thrashers with a distinctly emotional bent. 'Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All' has genuine soul 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z For her, “Shrew” is a parable of discovery in which two misfits find, beneath the social construction of love, its natural contours. Review: Taming ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Under a Tent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The four-room exhibition follows the band from its misfit beginnings to its later acceptance into pop culture, including in animated form on “The Simpsons.” His Brother’s Keeper: A Ramones Tour of Queens 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z "Gather together misfits, I said, and you will get recklessness, ambition, anything at all, and it will lead to what I saw, to the worst sort of catastrophe," she says. Review: There's something (weird) about Mary 2013-04-23T02:16:03Z Here at the VFW was an island of misfit boys and damaged men, who claimed to have believed in the system until it failed them. Men’s rights activists, gathering to discuss all the ways society has done them wrong For the misfits, the outcasts, the night crawlers, it works. The Nightlife Outlaws of East Los Angeles 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Both claim to have been teenage misfits to some degree. Glad to be Glee 2011-01-06T20:30:01Z The '80s are fun, Texan tech magnates have potential and the sight of three misfits jousting with giants is always welcome. 'Halt and Catch Fire' dives into '80s tech war with AMC flair 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But she saw herself as something of a misfit in that world, she said, more enchanted by its infrastructure than by the pursuit of perfection. At the Whitney Biennial, Flood Preparation as Social Dance 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s an excellent sequence that offers back story without forcing these misfits to bond. ‘Black Friday’ Review: Killer Sales Bring Killer Customers 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z It is a far cry from The Breakfast Club, which gave us the full periodic table of archetypes: rebel, jock, square, prom queen, misfit. Does Booksmart spell the end of high school stereotypes? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s a misfit boy and an angry girl on a remote island against the whole world. Gift advice that’ll bring you Knope and joy 2012-11-23T16:00:00Z For more than a century, the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library has flourished, gloriously but precariously, as a shape-shifting misfit within a Dewey Decimal grid. Hands Off the Library’s Picture Collection! 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Just don't mention 'girl power' ... a runaway success with 70s teenage misfits. Great girls' movies don't have to be chick flicks 2010-09-03T15:23:00Z New friends may await the victimized in the bigger world — where the misfits might find a place to fit — if they can just survive high school. Bully: A Punishing Movie Your Kids Must See 2012-03-29T10:45:20Z A terminally ill 61-year-old loner reluctantly agrees to give a 22-year-old misfit a short lift, and the two end up traveling across the country while on the lam. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z He identified with misfits and outsiders, the misshapen, the forgotten and the invisible. Neutral Milk Hotel at the Riviera concert review 2014-02-07T06:28:00Z The surprisingly touching rapport between Darren and Lucy is one instance of the play’s thoughtful and affectionate treatment of characters who, in a shallower work, might be dismissed as nerdy social misfits. Despite able performances, ‘Agents of Azeroth’ needs a reboot 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Gleeson's acting résumé reads like an idiosyncratic collection of schemers, instigators and noble misfits. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The two connected instantly, Mr. Knight, now 94, recalled, because both were “total misfits.” Walter Tevis Was a Novelist. You Might Know His Books (Much) Better as Movies. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z “I’m a, like, misfit. They’re all so . . . I’m more like you.” Review | Anne Tyler’s ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’ is light on drama. Not that we could handle more drama now anyway. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z But thinking of yourself as a misfit or outsider has its traps too. Devendra Banhart’s amazing “Mad Men” finale theory involves Roger’s octopus painting and J.K. Rowling 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Joyce populates Frank’s store with an adorable crew of fellow misfits. Review | An irresistible romantic comedy to begin your new year 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Onstage, he seems to be the adolescent misfit within everyone’s soul. The Human Comedy of Adam Wade 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z “Dr. Ride’s American Beach House” is interested in the moment when women who are only vaguely aware of their misfit emotions begin to imagine “going away” from their preprogrammed lives. Review: Getting Intimate at ‘Dr. Ride’s American Beach House’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z On the window, someone, probably Metzger, has scrawled various slogans, including "misfits at work". Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z Moore wrote in The Times last year that, as a self-described misfit, he connected deeply with Turing's story. Oscars 2015: 'The Imitation Game' wins for adapted screenplay 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Still, in a literary culture that is often as segregated as the society around it, Johnson’s novel is a welcome misfit. Book Review: A gently funny exploration of biracial identity 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Billed as a "theatrical evocation" of Jackson's music, the production follows four misfits on a transformative journey in which they personify Jackson's personality and world view of equality and unity. Cirque du Soleil to stage second Michael Jackson-themed show 2013-02-22T21:23:45Z Lionel evolves a little too conveniently from misfit to paladin, from ally of the marginal and oppressed to their would-be savior. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Instead, there are strange, glancing portraits of misfits – a man who builds a car from scrap, a woman whose mission is to stop her friend committing murder. Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China - review 2012-05-22T12:31:01Z In New York, the two best friends joined an enclave where misfit toys are the rule, not the exception. ‘Shucked’: A Broadway Musical That Doubles Down on the Corn 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Favored by 4-year-olds, misfits and drag queens, wearing cobalt eye shadow means forsaking good taste for a welcome jolt of indiscretion. | Talking Blues 2014-05-01T17:00:39Z “Funny Girl” is a musical that celebrates the oddballs, the kooky and the misfits. Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch bond backstage at ‘Funny Girl’ 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The mostly young and little-known cast is a conglomeration of Feigean misfits engaged in sibling rivalry, romantic longings and institutional satire, with the added component of physics as farce. Q&A: Paul Feig on 'Other Space' and the comedy of close quarters 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z That actually pretty well describes "The Jammer," too, a work that was originally written in a "three-week fever dream" and now proudly attracts "misfit toys whenever it arrives in town." Rolin Jones writes a 'big 'ol dumb comedy' 2013-01-23T14:09:10Z The movie, bloody enough for an R rating, isn’t exactly a cannibal “Twilight,” but its romanticism — its passionate commitment to its vulnerable, misunderstood misfits — is defiantly and uncondescendingly adolescent. ‘Bones and All’ Review: You Eat What You Are 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Finn was a central character on the show, a high school football star turned choir member who defended the school's misfits and played an integral part in advancing the series' theme of tolerance. 'Glee' says goodbye to Finn in tribute to late actor Monteith 2013-10-11T05:45:29Z Young misfits wielding blowtorches do not fit the image the industry hopes to project, no matter how ingenious or exuberant their work. Art you can smoke: the strange and exquisite bongs worth $50,000 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z “The arsonist may be a misfit, an outlier, even a sociopath,” Hooper writes, “but he inhabits the same environment and the same community as his victims.” Untangling the Story of a Deadly Blaze and ‘The Arsonist’ Who Lit It 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The real-life misfits were chasing phantoms of a different kind, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers by tweeting out information, sometimes wrong, about Trump’s alleged misdeeds. Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “My sense was that people knew they were misfits in the broader electronic music scene,” she said. TikTok Is Filled With Sped-Up Remixes. Two Norwegians Pioneered Them. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z "I want you to make sure that this is presented as a positive word, misfits," he said. Like 2020, the Dr. Who special "Revolution of the Daleks" is dark 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z “Community” is about a group of misfit students at a Colorado community college. Harmon: ‘Community’ online won’t be too different 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In “Bridesmaids,” Wiig’s physicality, including her stumbling vulnerability, adds poignancy to her portrait of a woozy misfit. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Four misfit boys go looking for the missing body of a local teenager in Oregon. Africa United reveals the other side of a continent 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z The network was experimenting in its attempt to find a follow-up to “Daria,” which also championed teen misfits and social outcasts. Feeding the nostalgia beast: MTV and other networks bring back their vintage shows 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Beane flirts with the idea of such posturing as a refuge for misfits who have turned a world that might reject them into one long, shared joke. Theater Review | 'Mr. & Mrs. Fitch': In a Gilded World, Theirs Is but to Quip and Sigh 2010-02-23T03:01:00Z In essence, this is just the latest iteration of the “motley crew of lovable misfits overcomes obstacles on its way to nationals” trope. Review: New York Musical Festival Is a Smorgasbord 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z There are so many other misfit sweets to hate on – candy corn, black licorice, those weird peanuts with the bumpy coating – but a classic Hershey product combining coconut and dark chocolate? In defense of loving Mounds candy bars 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z How the company stays in business is a mystery, since the staff is full of misfits preoccupied with personal problems and infighting. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z As they await rescue, Billie calms herself by telling the story of their friendship, dating to junior high school, when both were lonely misfits. Reviews: New Books From Steven Millhauser, Per Petterson and More 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Like Williams’s characters, those who inhabit Ms. Kennedy’s plays are both products of, and misfits in, a circumscribed society. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The last time I saw Ms. Plummer she was unusually subdued, bringing clarity and restraint to an earlier Williams misfit, Miss Alma in “Summer and Smoke,” in a 2006 production in Hartford. Theater Review: Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in Tennessee Williams Rarity 2013-06-21T20:53:00Z McHale's Navy as the commander of a wartime patrol with a crew of misfits and malcontents. Ernest Borgnine dies aged 95 2012-07-08T23:23:39Z He is one of the better-adjusted people on this island of misfit egos, though that isn’t saying much. Cannes: Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars, a (sort-of) Hollywood satire 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z That first feature, about a misfit teen in a small town in Idaho, revelled in its vision of holy innocence without ever making its religious terms explicit. Jared Hess’s Spiritual Gross-Out Comedy, in “Masterminds” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Taken on its own terms, it's a light, sweet, curiously enjoyable misfit romance, whose real star is not Aniston but her magnificently awkward Lothario, Jason Bateman. "The Switch": Jason Bateman steals Jennifer Aniston's spotlight 2010-08-20T00:20:00Z He's right, but it doesn't help that nearly everyone he talks to looks and sounds like a social misfit. Bumbershoot preview: 1 Reel Film Festival at SIFF 2010-09-02T20:05:00Z Her younger brother Perry is a high-I.Q. misfit and drug dealer. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z He's mean to the school's misfit Goth girl — never mind that she looks like she should be on a fashion runway — and she in turn puts a curse on him, making him ugly. 'Beastly': Fairy-tale misfits who look like models 2011-03-03T01:00:09Z Like "Freaks," it's cast mostly with young actors, chosen more for character than typical TV glamour — just the sort of misfit crew the earlier series would lead you to expect. 'Other Space' on Yahoo Screen a sweet, nutty confection 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z His Emory is a misfit sprite who, when life gets ugly, makes his own world — where he can sing, dance and dream his little heart out. 2 quirky comedies have Seattle premieres 2011-09-22T21:28:06Z She processed rejection by finding her own “misfit congregants” and working to bring them into the fold, she said. Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Accompanied by four military personnel whose careers had been directly affected by "don't ask, don't tell," she spoke to every misfit weirdo out there as she picked up the prize for best female artist. 10 best moments from MTV's Video Music Awards 2010-09-13T12:36:00Z He shipped off for a lifesaving stint at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts, which he called “a school of misfits, of 300 oddballs.” How Shahzad Ismaily Became Musicians’ Favorite Musician 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z It isn’t long before Peg takes her talents elsewhere, and the shop she starts with a crew of misfits leads to an interagency feud. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Athlete A’ and ‘Married at First Sight’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z As Alfred Uhry’s book — also a Tony winner — relates, Leo, the manager of a pencil factory owned by Lucille’s uncle, is a misfit in Atlanta: a New York Jew but also a cold fish. Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in ‘Parade’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Music, of course, is what saves these tormented misfits, beckoning toward horizons they can barely imagine. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z But after the local troop rejects her for being a social outcast, she recruits the town’s other misfits and starts her own group. ‘Troop Zero’ Review: A New Generation of Underdogs 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z This book is a sublime and painful conjuring of a family’s grief and the misfit creature with the power to both haunt and help them. Max Porter's debut 'Grief Is the Thing With Feathers' soars with complexity 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z In "Assassins," Weidman and Sondheim present a cavalcade of misfits, the desperate and the disaffected who killed or tried to kill the president of the United States. Roundabout to present Sondheim's 'Assassins' 2012-08-21T15:38:07Z It was a monologue about a guy who lives in what, in the U.K., we call a wardrobe — quite a dark, sort of strange piece about this guy who’s a misfit. An ‘Obsession’ With Philip Glass Inspires a Director’s Memory Play 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z In the British comedy “Get Duked!,” four misfit adolescents come face to face with a familiar existential threat: other people. ‘Get Duked!’ Review: The Kids Are All Fight (and Jokes) 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Judging from his work one might expect Mr. Clowes to be a dyspeptic misfit himself, hunched over a drawing table in some squalid cartoonist’s lair. Daniel Clowes?s Retrospective at the Oakland Museum 2012-03-30T13:43:38Z Geoff Stults plays a soldier who gets reassigned to the base where his two younger brothers are stationed, a sort of island of misfit toys for troops who are not really battle ready. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z The narrator feels alienated from her own body, and identifies an unsettling correlation between her unstable identity and the neighborhood of misfits. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z I’m drawn to playing outsiders, freaks and misfits. Rainn Wilson: In Defense of the Anti-Hero and Cracking Offensive Jokes 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Movie audiences know him as the upbeat misfit Benji in the two “Pitch Perfect” movies, easygoing comedies about college a capella singing groups. Ben Platt, on pitch in ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The dead moth and that missing sense become symbols woven through a narrative that charts Coel’s progression from a misfit growing up in London to a misfit writing and producing her own successful show. Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “It’s like a bunch of driving school misfits,” Crystal said, adding about Mike, “And he’s trying to teach them to be funny when he’s really not that funny himself.” In ‘Monsters at Work,’ the Scary Part Is the New Business Model 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z There are a lot of outsiders in my novels, sexual misfits among them. By the Book : John Irving: By the Book 2012-06-07T15:45:22Z With a dark scowl and a monotone enameled in malice, Ellie is a glaring caricature of a troubled teenager, a misfit determined to out-mean the mean girls. Theater Review: Shuler Hensley in ‘The Whale,’ by Samuel D. Hunter 2012-11-06T03:00:22Z When the musicians released their debut album, “Hear It Is,” in 1986, who could have predicted that this band of Okie misfits would not only survive 30 years but actually thrive? Wayne Coyne, mad scientist: “If the Flaming Lips make a wrong move, so what?” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Douglas is a moderately talented drummer, his band mates are misfits, and his father hates every inch of what he wants to be, but he almost can’t help himself. Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z And then what happens is that you find yourself rooting desperately for this band of misfits that they put together. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: James Lipton 2012-02-15T19:11:11Z His leading characters both male and female are spiky misfits, deliberately alienating themselves from their families. Frances Ha – review 2013-07-27T23:07:03Z Take for example "Glee," Ryan Murphy's cult classic series about a group of high school show choir misfits. What that "Sex Education" disability story could learn from reality TV 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z The links among the works in the last gallery are the loosest, suggesting a collection of misfits. '6018 Wilshire' at Edward Cella: Last show before the wrecking ball 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The three are high school misfits, but their world is fairly satisfying . . . until the new issue of Playboy arrives at Zelinsky’s Typewriters and Office Supplies. ‘The Impossible Fortress,’ by Jason Rekulak 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z In the charming coming-of-age movie “Metal Lords,” misfit teenage musicians form a band. ‘Metal Lords’ Review: Shred of the Class 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z This gripping debut about a Mexican-American misfit is alive and crackling — a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. Love and Other Ties That Bind in This Fall’s Y.A. Novels 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Similarly spooky latter-day misfits practice occult rituals in the full light of day in “Midsommar,” a film about a pagan community ensconced in the remote Swedish countryside. Are Hippies the New Goths? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z A misfit at school, she is befriended by a teacher and two boys, and her struggle to break free of her vicious, volatile father commences. ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ is one of the best new audiobooks of the month 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z And when Grant-Suttie denounces personal liberation as "another form of confusion," it's a hint that the misfits are not Black's heroes. Lewis Black's comedy 'One Slight Hitch' lacks his signature bite 2012-06-18T17:32:03Z “Many, however, are made into misfits because life looks at them differently; the U.K.’s Black, Asian and ginger communities, for example.” Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Set in Athens and visibly haunted by the specter of Greece’s economic crisis, the film follows a charismatic ensemble of misfits who make their living — at least nominally — as street performers. ‘Broadway’ Review: Life on the Margins 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The darkly funny mystery traces the story of the restless Brooklyn misfit, and Shawkat’s knack for playing stunted growth is one the show’s best draws. Alia Shawkat on Going From 'Sassy Teen' to the Lead in Search Party 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The film is worth praising for what it is and admiring for what it’s not — there’s no sappiness or false emotion, and none of the clichéd, quirky misfits who populate so many commercial comedies. Review: ‘Menashe’ Finds Faith and Fatherhood Sometimes at Odds 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s understandable if Majok’s intention is to not demystify these misfits, nor impose a tidy plot on them. Satori Group takes you into the wild 2013-03-06T22:26:43Z It means to be an oddball hymn to an oddball, the kind of play in which you ask of the misfit hero, Is he crazy or does he see more clearly than everyone else? | 'Love Song': Not Much to Steal but a Heart 2011-04-17T22:22:46Z We were strangers lodging in a strange American fantasyland wrapped in the enigma of Asia, watching a family of misfits come to grips with their oddities and unite in triumph at the end. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “There’s something about the way that there seem to be these artists who are pursuing making music not really having a clear directive from the onset,” Cilker says, referring to Carlile’s “island of misfits” comment. Brandi Carlile is Americana’s latest transcendent star. And she hasn’t forgotten her roots 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Frankly, I found this band of misfits to be somewhat mechanically assembled for maximum charming quirkiness in the movie. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z Three misfit teenage girls form the world’s worst punk band in 1980s Stockholm in this comedy. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2014-05-02T22:02:27Z Dipsomaniacal uptown girls—one is never far from a drink in this tale—these serious ladies find pleasure downtown, in the company of lunatics, clowns, and misfits. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z But even that crew of mutant misfits turned protectors of humanity exists in a circumscribed imaginative space. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movie 2012-06-27T16:13:49Z Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses. J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: We've Read It, Here's What We Thought 2012-09-27T05:01:21Z Mr. Lindahl describes his staff as mostly “punk kids” and “misfits.” Hipster Culture and Instagram Are Responsible for a Good Thing 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z By his own account, Wilson also understands what it's like to be something of a misfit. For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z This long opening section, nearly a third of the novel, is charmingly written, if a tad too reliant on the boilerplate YA origin narrative: sensitive, supernaturally gifted misfits versus mean people. Charlie Jane Anders' 'All the Birds in the Sky' has the hallmarks of an instant sci-fi classic 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Really, Other Space is a workplace self-discovery comedy about misfits finding their place, in a office that just happens to be floating in an alien dust cloud. Review: Other Space Is a Cosmic Blast 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z His old friend Patti Smith, writing in The New Yorker, called him “our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.” Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z At the time, Danes was struggling in junior high – not a misfit exactly, but not popular, either. Claire Danes's secret diary 2011-04-01T23:03:12Z Not only does Glee promise a place for misfits, it suggests they can be heroic. Glad to be Glee 2011-01-06T20:30:01Z A dark comedy set in Topanga Canyon, where See lived for many years, the story builds around misfits, free spirits and the starry-eyed graduates of self-help workshops. Carolyn See, award-winning Southern California writer, dies at 82 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In recent months we have witnessed a misfit parade of public figures laid low, most recently Anthony Weiner and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Books of The Times: Shame on Me, and You for Taking Pleasure in It 2011-08-02T21:23:10Z But is he just an isolated misfit, or a symbol of a more widely felt sense of alienation? Wintry passions 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z An entirely predictable, mostly honorable movie, “McFarland, USA” tells the story of a washed-up coach who turns a bunch of misfits into a team of champions. Review: In ‘McFarland, USA,’ Kevin Costner Coaches Cross-Country Runners 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Nerdy works, however mainstream they now seem, give misfits a way forward, a social life and an imaginative home, which itself leads to further creation. What Even Is a Nerd Anymore? 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z He was once a quiet misfit, dumped into the care of his grandmother after his own mother was murdered. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Not bad for a guy who endured his own school days as a self-described "freak," "misfit" and "outcast." Springsteen presents charity honor to Van Zandt 2012-10-17T11:46:04Z "Glee", the Emmy-winning Fox show about a group of misfit high school students in a choir, produces five or six cover versions per episode of pop, Broadway, rap and jazz songs. "Glee" cast surpasses Elvis on U.S. singles chart 2011-02-16T22:02:51Z In Mr. Storey’s stage world, characters were misfits, at odds with their roots, their environment, their work, their relationships, their inner selves. David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Though I hadn’t read the play, all accounts of it suggested that no one in his right mind would want to grow up to be like the miserable and vicious misfits it depicted. Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter Sniping in ‘The Boys in the Band’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z This isn’t Lee Marvin’s Dirty Dozen, a platoon of martial misfits on a single mission. The Monuments Men is George Clooney’s Art of War 2014-02-06T14:25:53Z We started the show as a ragtag group of misfits, and six seasons later, when we filmed the last episode, we were still the same bunch of misfits. Actress Naya Rivera, who rose to fame on ‘Glee,’ dies at 33 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Oddballs and misfits found passing moments of harmony. Review: Barnard/Columbia Dances at the Miller Theater 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s Lonely for the Last Human Left Heroism is thrust upon the misfit protagonist of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist comedy “Rhinoceros,” hanging on his slumped shoulders like an ill-fitting suit. Theater Review: Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-10-06T00:13:55Z Moonlighting as a nonfiction professor, I taught fellow misfits to explore their obsessions, chronicle their humiliating secrets, harnessing the power of artful reinvention. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z "Perks" features "Harry Potter" co-star Emma Watson alongside Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller in the story of a troubled high school freshman taken in by a clique of senior misfits. 'Watch,' 'House,' 'Curve' land in photo finish 2012-09-23T21:16:04Z Thoreau’s zealous rejection of conventionality is especially designed for young misfits who hear a different drummer. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z A representative for Subway told The Hollywood Reporter the company would not be running its ads on Monday's second episode of the drama series about misfit teens who dabble in drink, drugs and sex. Subway joins growing ad exit from MTV show "Skins" 2011-01-25T02:15:41Z Set in a US high school, the action focuses on a bunch of misfits who make up the school's Glee Club; an all-singing, all-dancing group who compete against other schools with ever-more sophisticated routines. Glee star Jane Lynch swaps tracksuits for Madonna's conical bra 2010-04-23T22:04:00Z This is especially urgent for Otto — the Dr. Frankenstein figure in this fable — a social misfit who relies on Mary to be his real-world eyes and ears. Review: In Fox’s ‘Second Chance,’ a Life Resurrected 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Vodka had been a way to overcome shyness and depression since my misfit teens. My boyfriend, the sex addict 2013-06-10T00:00:00Z As connections form among these misfits, Eddie struggles to find the courage to embrace the new. ‘Last of the Whyos’: It’s a bold story, but it doesn’t budge 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Homeland Security enlists some brainy misfits in the new series "Scorpion." TV This Week Sept. 21 - 27: 'The Good Wife' on CBS 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Watts — who died in London on Tuesday at 80 — was a misfit among misfits, a gentleman lost at sea with hungry pirates, a cool jazz mind in the world’s most insatiable rock-and-roll troupe. Perspective | Charlie Watts was a gentleman in the world’s most dangerous band 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z He’s a social misfit from the country who rents an apartment in London that she owns. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Suttie is the true heir to Victoria Wood; armed with a folksy voice and a guitar, her neatly crafted songs tell stories of doomed love between misfits in northern towns. Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup 2011-08-06T23:06:23Z Zeke, “Hellbender” Fourteen years since releasing their last album, Seattle’s blue collar misfit punks return with a rejiggered lineup, still louder and faster than a hundred beer-guzzling chain-saw operators and every bit as dangerous. The 17 best Seattle-area albums of the year (so far) 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s the reason why when offered the chance to make a movie with any DC character he wanted, he chose not Superman but the misfits of “The Suicide Squad.” Director James Gunn assembles his perfect ‘Suicide Squad’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z There are a number of reasons why Red State, the story of a group of misfits who encounter extreme fundamentalism in middle America, has struggled to find funding. Kevin Smith gets good news at least | Ben Child 2010-03-24T10:11:00Z Says Holliday about their group of “misfits”: “On the court we push and shove and laugh, and at the end of the day, we’ve got each other’s back.” Three decades of a pickup game ends, but the bond and friendships play on 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z As a quiet misfit in a foreign place, Daphne hungers for human connection even as she physically deteriorates. The Loneliness, and Danger, of Being a Young Woman in a New City 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z She faces off against a team of misfit superheroes who are not particularly thrilled about working with one another: Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Daredevil. Here Are All the Trailers From Comic-Con 2017 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Based on Stephen King's 1974 novel, it told of a high school misfit who uses telekinesis to punish her tormentors. Carrie set for New York comeback 2011-06-01T10:30:55Z As an actor, Kapoor was a leading man who played poets and misfits and lovers. Critic?s Notebook: MoMA Presents a Raj Kapoor Film Festival 2012-01-05T22:50:33Z Instead Mueller opted for youth -- the average age of directors in the main competition is an unusually low 47 -- and Hollywood misfits rather than A-listers this year. Venice film fest fights its corner as crisis bites 2010-09-07T10:50:00Z Directed by Dean Israelite, the film tells the backstories of the five teenage characters - a misfit, a loner, a school bully, an intellectual and a drop-out - and their transformation into action heroes. Rebooted Power Rangers return to big screen 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z One of the hallmarks of the so-called golden age of television is the family of lovable misfits who can’t seem to get their lives together. Casual season two focuses on friends – with benefits 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z In Monáe’s dystopian but somehow ebullient alternate universe, “dirty computers” are misfits and outcasts whose identities are seen as bugs or flaws that need correcting, the way we might think of problematic software. Janelle Monáe brings an eclectic sound and idealism to her ‘Dirty Computer’ tour 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The award-winning series about a group of misfit students in a struggling competition choir saw its biggest audience ever Tuesday night, positioning the TV show for a move from cult fan status to mainstream hit. "Glee" almost doubles audience on return to TV 2010-04-14T17:55:00Z This industry attracts misfits of all stripes to what is a very unhealthy lifestyle --lots of smart, well meaning folks in the business but also a lot of creeps thriving on the chaos and dysfunction. Scandals Keep Breaking, but Restaurateurs Have Yet to Own Up 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Any woman could play the dowdy outcast at a bridal shower, but Ms. Stone turned that character into the rasping, earnest misfit Wallis, holding her own in the sketch opposite Kristen Wiig. Television: Anna Faris and Other Female Hosts on ?Saturday Night Live? 2012-02-26T03:04:12Z “We are a bunch of misfits,” laughs Sean Quigley, 33, the backup singer who is also a classically trained actor from London, giving him no need to fake a British accent. The Knights of Medieval Times Will Carry Union Cards With Their Lances 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Based on a book by Jonathan Ames, the film tells the story of two misfits in New York City who become roommates. Notes from the SIFF front lines 2010-05-21T17:11:00Z When our protagonist, a dewy-eyed young man named Hughie, encounters the depravity of one such hero, he joins the Boys, a gang of misfits led by a mysterious man called Butcher. “Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z “This setting, this little bar, has become a bit of an enclave for folks who might feel like outsiders or weirdos or misfits,” Bonds said. For Two Broadway Stars, a Love Story Blossoms in a Honky-Tonk Bar 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z I have taught my daughters and son the difference between creeps and social misfits.To be independent and speak up. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z In his own sketch comedy series Kroll Show, he played at least a dozen different characters ranging from the expressionless pet plastic surgeon Dr. Armond to a Degrassi-inspired Canadian high school misfit. Nick Kroll Turned His Embarrassing Puberty Stories into a New Series 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z But at least one person had not given up on Jim Henson’s colorful felt misfits. On ‘The Muppets,’ Miss Piggy Has a Talk Show and a Chatty Staff 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z “Teeth Dreams” expands Mr. Finn’s roster of misfits and uncertain strivers. New Music: New Music by the Hold Steady, Future Islands, Caetano Veloso 2014-03-24T22:45:20Z Garbus and her gang of Oakland misfits did exactly that at a sold-out Fonda Theatre on Thursday night. At the Fonda, tUnE-yArDs gets primal 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z In the music video for the “Royals” singer’s latest track “Team,” released this week, the famously young artist finds herself on what appears to be an island of misfit teens. New Lorde Music Video: A Warning to Teens? 2013-12-05T17:25:35Z Unlike most films in the Disney-animation canon, B&B is a love story, a union of misfits. Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment 2012-01-12T17:33:27Z But by the ’90s, when the misfits and freaks he once cavorted with suddenly became mainstream, Bowie became both an insider and an outsider. David Bowie’s “Earthling” is 20 years old today 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The book’s other characters are even cuter misfits. Books of The Times: ‘The Good Luck of Right Now’ Is a Story of Cute Misfits 2014-02-10T21:44:43Z Showtime is airing “How to Build a Girl” alongside Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” another sweet and sour coming-of-age comedy about a teenage misfit, which starts at 7:25 p.m. What’s on TV This Week: Documentaries on David Driskell and Abraham Lincoln 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z With his ethereal voice, Pears portrayed the fisherman as an alienated dreamer, a misfit in a narrow-minded town. Jon Vickers, Opera Star Known for His Raw Power and Intensity, Dies at 88 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z A precocious misfit from his earliest days at Frighten Elementary School, Mike dreams of scaring children as another boy would strive himself for major-league stardom. Pixar’s Monsters University: When Hairy Met Scary 2013-06-13T18:12:17Z He felt compassion, not fear, for the hunchbacked Richard, identifying with him as a fellow misfit. Patrick Page, Onetime Green Goblin, on Playing in ‘Cyrano’ 2012-09-23T04:38:14Z Though “The Breakfast Club” came a little later, Gen Xers might also flash on that movie’s stereotyped teenagers locked in detention: Here, too, we have a jock, a pretty princess and a few troubled misfits. In ‘Cyclorama,’ Former Classmates Confront an Extra Problematic Drama Teacher 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z And what I thought then and I still feel now is that it's because this room was a room full of misfits, outcasts, loners, dreamers, mumblers, delinquents, dropouts. 'Artist' wins best-picture at indie Spirit Awards 2012-02-26T02:46:03Z In "Bad News Bears" fashion, he's asked to coach a team of misfits, including his grandson. Thumbnail sketch of ABC's new season 2013-05-14T19:14:19Z The playwright claimed his “first contact with a free society” in the city’s French Quarter, whose misfit transients inspired characters like Stanley and Stella from “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Heads Up: Tennessee Williams?s 100th Birthday, Marked in Columbus, Miss. 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z As the movies expanded and internationalized, and characters came and went, the ideal of an automotive misfit fraternity remained at the center of each story. Review: In ‘Furious 7,’ a Franchise Continues to Roar 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z “Americana music is the island of the misfit toys. I am such a misfit,” said Carlile, flanked by the twins while accepting their second award during the Premiere Ceremony, which was livestreamed at Grammy.com. Brandi Carlile wins first 3 Grammys ahead of tonight’s big show; Seattle Symphony wins 2 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z To the untrained eye, they are just misfits. Has Congress gotten so pathetic that even the protesters aren’t bothering to show up? “Des Moines” showcases many of his signatures: deadpan absurdism, misfit characters, heavy drinking and drug addiction, deception, and statements on the bleak, incontestable fact of human mortality. ‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Young Jordan befriends a trio of middle-school misfits, and teaches them about either the joys of hard-won wealth or the importance of being true to yourself, or something. ‘Little’ Review: Too Much Caution and Not Enough Regina Hall 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z "I wanted to find the tribe of misfits and artists and crazy people," says Arias, who arrived in 1976. Antony Hegarty's Meltdown: New York pioneers who walked on the wild side 2012-07-28T23:05:37Z Padura’s most brilliantly portrayed misfit is a young Jewish painter in Amsterdam, striving for greatness under the tutelage of Rembrandt — only to be driven into exile by doctrinaire rabbis who consider his work transgressive. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z With the exception of Amy, we were all generally unknown, a bunch of misfit toys finally able to shine with all of our idiosyncrasies. How we made Parks and Recreation, by Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman and Mike Schur 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z In “Assassins,” Weidman and Sondheim present a cavalcade of real-life misfits, the desperate and the disaffected, who killed or tried to kill the president of the United States. Classic Stage Company has a treat: Three ‘Assassins’ casts 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z As Steinman said, "He looks like every kid who thinks he's a misfit." Meat Loaf taught me it's OK to have big dreams 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z “The bachelor is something of a social misfit, but an acceptable one,” he remarks. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Murphy’s shows are big and brash, but they’re not run-of-the-mill television: they centralize women, queer people, and misfits, those who live on society’s fringes. American success story: how Ryan Murphy became Netflix's $300m man 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Take Sam, the misfit narrator of “Arcade,” Smith’s debut novel, released in paperback original this week by Los Angeles-based independent publisher Unnamed Press. Sex and Texas: Drew Nellins Smith on fiction, fact and his debut novel, 'Arcade' 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z In Missouri Mr Hodgman is a misfit, but writes with humour and self-mockery that bring levity to the painful, central subject of “Bettyville”: caring for a parent on the threshold of death. How to remember 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z This fan base of self-described freaks and misfits made a community out of people otherwise excluded from mainstream culture. Which Show Is Good, Clean Fun: ‘Rocky Horror’ or ‘The Music Man’? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The series, with Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, was one of the earliest examples of what has since become common fare: programs built around characters who are distinctive misfits. 2010-01-09T04:30:00Z Surely, Joan of Arc, that maundering Maid of Orleans, falls solidly into the category of fascinating, exemplary misfit. Lidia Yuknavitch blasts Joan of Arc into outer space 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Jonathan continues to teach Will that being a misfit is the coolest. The Best Stranger Things Season 2 Moments in 10 Memes 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z In her current one-woman show, Julia Sweeney shares the story of how she acquainted her teenage daughter with her most famous “Saturday Night Live” character, an adenoidal social misfit of uncertain gender named Pat. Who Is Julia Sweeney Coming to Terms With? It’s Pat 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z She chalked up the color’s renewed impact to a welter of factors, not least its longtime affiliation with beatniks, punks and other misfits, tribes that are being revisited in the popular culture. What Pops in a Sea of Shrill Color? Hint: It’s Not Pink 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Wrapped gifts and seasonal ornaments deck out the space around a hearth; and some misfit toys sit over to one side. Skipping Yuletide cheer, Pointless Theatre offers a dour, profane sendup of the holiday 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 This show, like its creators’ previous series, “Glee,” is all about outsiders/misfits/rejects versus insiders. ‘Scream Queens’ Season 1, Episode 6: Slumber Party 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z But it’s primarily the agony of being a misfit facing his first day as a high school senior — with a crush on a junior he can’t bring himself to approach — that gives Evan the jitters. Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Puts a Twist on Teenage Angst 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z He is forced to claim his spot among this group of misfits — and, even more unnerving, to acknowledge the possibility of alien life. 12 TV series to watch this fall 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Feeling like a perennial outsider, Coel also took the opportunity to redefine what it means to be a misfit. Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Set apart and threading through, Mr. Williams, with his creaturely grace, seems a misfit. Dance Review: Douglas Dunn’s Autobiographical ‘Aubade’ 2014-01-28T22:32:46Z I was a post-college misfit and backpacked around Central and South America, Syria, Lebanon, all over Europe. Close-Up: ‘Story First, Maps Second’ 2013-12-04T17:05:38Z These efforts fail — dully or hilariously — because once Fitzgerald’s poetic language has been stripped away, “The Great Gatsby” is just a silly story about a misfit obsessed with a gangster who’s stalking his cousin. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z I found out about Waters’ movies sometime around the end of that decade, after he had begun to accumulate a following of misfits, renegades and social rejects in major cities all over the country. John Waters, revolutionary: “Multiple Maniacs” is much more than camp 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z In the exquisite “Aliens” a couple of 30-ish misfits pass the time on the grotty back porch of a coffeehouse. Amy Herzog and Others Bring New Voices to Stage 2012-06-07T16:47:59Z When he started, 25 years ago, “climbing was a pretty fringe activity,” he said, “and it was usually kind of like the misfits, who couldn’t play ball sports, or weren’t great at team sports.” Social Climbing Has a Whole New Meaning 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z "American Idiot," like its youth-musical predecessors, follows a group of young misfits through a tumultuous, bittersweet rite of passage. 'American Idiot': Youth in crisis, set to Green Day's boisterous beat 2012-06-06T21:30:10Z It’s to Doerr’s credit that he quickly manages to humanize Seymour, a lonely young misfit who has become a radical misanthrope after developers encroached on the wilderness he loves. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z But while this traveling band of misfits was far from home, they were not unwelcome. Music Review: Face Paint and (Playful) Fistfighting for This Tribe in Brooklyn 2010-06-15T23:02:00Z She picked on the misfits and bullied the teachers and she turned out to be sort of a murderer. Eoin Colfer's top ten villains 2013-05-23T11:09:56Z The story about an East German singer who suffered a botched sex-change operation is something of a paean to misfits and losers, set to rock music. Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes) 2010-08-27T22:59:00Z The rest of the cast is peppered with expertly played misfits, perverts, eccentrics and even decent people. From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Ron Perlman stars as a strapping demon with red skin and a right hand and forearm that resembles a block of concrete, a misfit who fights evil wherever it rears its ugly head. 10 Underrated Comic Book Movies You Need to See 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But he hadn’t seen the movie, wasn’t familiar with the mythology of the character and couldn’t comment on the feasibility of a radioactive spider bite imbuing a misfit teen with super powers. What's with All the Lizards in The Amazing Spider-Man? 2012-07-10T12:00:04Z “Only a unique army of people is equipped to undertake such an enterprise. Since its inception, this merry band of misfits has defied the odds.” ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z And both balance natural good looks with a slightly sheepish charm that’s endeared them to insiders and misfits alike. James Blake plays it both ways at the Roxy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z A Broadway musical about America's favorite homegrown brand of Christianity from the genius misfits of "South Park" and "Team America," and Robert Lopez, the raunchy composer of "Avenue Q," could be expected to be irreverent. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z Green’s droves of fans are sure to speculate who will play the book’s supporting cast of quirky misfits who help round out the story. Cara Delevingne Lands Lead in John Green's Paper Towns 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z But in 90 minutes, Delaney's play gives us a broad satirical scamper through a labor market that's brutal for qualified folk — and murder on nice, inept misfits. '99 Layoffs' lays on a lot of laughs 2012-08-10T19:51:06Z Despite his popularity, Daniel is something of a misfit, as tigers go: a docile, people-loving creature who lives inside a cuckoo clock. Fred Rogers’s Life in 5 Artifacts 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z It is the place where many arriving malcontents cheer up and misfits feel at home for the first time. Tabboo! Paints a Valentine to New York City 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Flik, the misfit protagonist of “A Bug’s Life,” defends his colony against evil grasshoppers. From mall cops to sex buddies: 14 times movies about the same thing came out at the same time 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Starring a young, untarnished Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, “Heathers” was the bold template for later, more successful films like “Mean Girls,” not to mention cherished misfit television series like “Freaks and Geeks.” Theater Review: ‘Heathers: The Musical’ Brings Back Guilt-Free Mayhem 2014-04-01T13:23:48Z The fate of the world in Percy’s novel depends on the ability of a motley gang of misfits to head off the satanic forces emanating from the murkiest recesses of the internet. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z “The Family is a group of misfits,” Mr. Salazar said, “but the things that make us strange and different are the very things Joe enjoys.” The Guy Behind ‘Be More Chill’ Is Keeping It in the Family 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z But hacking proved a powerful social outlet for the sometimes sickly misfit uninterested in student clubs, which he described as “empty, meaningless groups of people.” Sean Parker Brings Facebook-Style Skills to New York Social Scene 2011-12-17T12:39:01Z Selina, with the help of her staff of misfits, has done what vice presidents do: bungle one thing after another, to great comic effect. ‘Veep,’ ‘Silicon Valley’ and the Intrusion of Real-Life Events 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The way I read it, he wants to see Wharton as, at heart, “an isolate and a misfit, which is to say a born writer,” and no doubt a lot like himself. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z It’s a self-portrait in which affected and determined young misfits continue to find consoling reflections of themselves. Theater Review: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center 2014-04-18T02:00:15Z Directed by Dean Israelite, the film tells the backstories of the five teenage characters - a misfit, a loner, a school bully, an intellectual and a drop-out - and their transformation into action heroes. Rebooted Power Rangers return to big screen 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The group’s “weirdness” — the assorted levels of proficiency, the lack of cohesion — was its strength in this comic mini-drama about misfits going crazy for music. Suzanne Farrell Ballet soars in ‘The Concert,’ stumbles in ‘Swan Lake’ In a season filled with garments of mixed media -- wool sport jackets with nylon parka sleeves, pinstriped suits with checked panels -- Junya Watanabe's merry band of patch-worked misfits were right at home. T Magazine: Paris Top 5 2013-01-21T21:54:14Z Its debut album “Facelift” — which recently got the 30th anniversary reissue treatment — became the first grunge record to go gold, setting the stage for a pop culture takeover by an unlikely brigade of Seattle misfits. Alice in Chains talk wild rise, hard times ahead of receiving MoPOP Founders Award 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Cooper and Lawrence excel as two misfits who wonder if it'll be easier to keep it together by being together. This week's new films 2012-11-24T00:04:01Z The myth debunking begins immediately, as Albert, a glaring misfit in the frontier town of Old Stump, complains to anyone who will listen how much he hates the West. Seth MacFarlane’s ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z For more than three decades, Broadway treated him — and by extension, us, the misfits who have always loved and been drawn to the romance, spectacle and heart of musical theater — as stars. Farewell to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which welcomed outcasts 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z I like the character because it's novel for me, although I've played more than my share of misfits and losers and guys behind the eight ball. William H. Macy on 'Shameless' and his respect for writers 2011-01-03T23:11:31Z It’s a sore point for Disney, which has struggled to figure out what to do with the family of felt misfits created by Jim Henson. Arts & Leisure: New Muppet (and Movie), Leading Franchise Into New Era 2011-11-16T16:00:12Z It details a murder spree by one Frank Zito, a disturbed misfit who scalps his victims to decorate crude mannequins, the only company that will tolerate him. Maniac is still nasty but it's a cut above most horror remakes 2013-03-15T13:00:00Z It’s the ongoing tale of five entrepreneurs who are misfits even in a realm that glorifies misfits. HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley,’ still tip-to-tip efficient at sharply observant satire 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z It is no longer a haven for sexual misfits and exiles. The Joy of Mass Intimacy: A Look at ‘Future Sex’ 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Her narrators own their misfit status, but are also self-aware enough to realize that some of it is a protective pose. Lorde reigns at Aragon 2014-03-19T05:37:00Z Being brainy, bulky and gay must have made her feel like a misfit pretty much everywhere she went. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z Bowie transcended music and was a touchstone for generations of musicians, music lovers and misfits. Where to honor David Bowie on his birthday and anniversary of his death 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z "Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell," Abrahamson says. Lenny Abrahamson: 'Good guys can be complex too' 2013-01-03T17:00:01Z Is it pigeonholing you if I say that I saw flashes of some of your best-known “S.N.L.” characters — uncomfortable loners like Penelope and larger-than-life misfits like Target Lady — in your performance? Kristen Wiig Would Have Said Yes to One Line in ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z It was, Port writes, “a misfit stepchild of a guitar that extended creative expression past what any other standard model allowed.” Behind the Guitar Heroes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z As she moves through the first semester of her junior year, she becomes close friends with other misfits, holds her own against an idiotic teacher and successfully weathers romantic disappointment. New Y.A. Crossover From Morgan Parker, Renée Ahdieh and More 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z A “house” is both a team and, literally, a home, and Blanca assembles a crew of misfits and castoffs in her apartment. Review: ‘Pose’ Demands to Be Seen 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z We looked like Victorian misfits sounding off, spitfires. Losing my twin 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s about outcasts and misfits in plain sight.” New this week: ‘Don’t Look Up,’ new ‘Matrix’ and ‘Sing 2’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Many viewers of “Cartel Land” have observed that the sections of the film about Mireles and the Autodefensa movement are stronger than those dealing with Nailer’s band of Arizona misfits. “Cartel Land”: A crazy, violent trip into Mexico’s deadly drug war and America’s border paranoia 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Around the agreeable leads is an ersatz family of misfits and music obsessives who trade banter and Replacements bootlegs. Review: ‘Roadies,’ Building Each Night’s Stairway to Heaven 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z She said she glazes and ships the pieces, but, based on the collection of misfit artworks, many students don’t leave a forwarding address. dIn North Carolina, the Art of Living Retreat is a balancing act of rest and activities 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z She’s a bit of a misfit too; she anonymously sends him a video monitor that lets him watch her at home. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Suddenly, all the misfitting parts of me came into an orderly pattern, and there wasn’t anything to lose by following it. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z "Love Hard" feels like a misfit created in a Christmas lab as opposed to a confectionery treat. "Love Hard," a holiday catfish story masquerading as a romance, is a swipe right and a miss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z These artists – mostly male, it has to be said – skew more towards dedicated misfits than louche bohemians. Pixel wizards: meet the CGI creatives building cinema's brave new worlds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Boy, were we misfits, and I loved it. When ‘Homicide’ Hit Its Stride 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The quartet adopted the Screamers name and were immediate icons among the sea of misfits flocking to the city. Screamers, a Missing Link of Los Angeles Punk, Is Missing No More 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Its readers were beautiful people and misfits, insiders and outsiders. Paper Magazine, the Oral History: ‘They Were Wide Open’ 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z That’s the message of David Whitehouse’s second novel, “Mobile Library,” a sometimes touching, sometimes heavy-handed tale about a group of misfits who become a kind of family. A makeshift family journeys toward epiphany in ‘Mobile Library’ 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “A misfit is one who looks at life differently,” she said. Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “Wail’s” detail will be welcome to scholars, but for lay readers, it slows down a compelling and unutterably sad tale of a misfit genius tossed from one self-interested caretaker to the next. ‘Wail’: A biography of Bebop piano pioneer Bud Powell 2013-06-26T22:25:54Z The show, created by Alex De Rakoff, is, like the movie, a cheeky journey into the criminal underworld of London, focused on some misfits with a knack for getting in over their heads. Review: ‘Snatch’ and ‘Jack & Dean,’ Rich in Clumsy Criminals 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Janiak was also looking to subvert the horror genre she loves by focusing more on misfits and outsiders, the frequent heroes of Stine’s series. Binge-Viewing Movies? Netflix Bets on the ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z When the death of a lawyer reveals a mountain of debt, the Engels, his family of connect-the-dots misfits, decide to continue the family business. Hail 'Welcome to Sweden,' despair for 'Working the Engels' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The success of Glee and High School Musical proves that groups of misfit teenagers singing and dancing their way to salvation are the stuff of global entertainment franchises. Our Day Out 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z For a certain swath of misfit millennial music fans, the Blood Brothers was a formative act. The Blood Brothers blow up punk -- again -- at FYF Fest 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z There is something intriguing about portraying a misfit as cool or a glamorous person. The enduring tragedy of Christine Chubbuck: “She got headlines for blood and guts, which is what she abhorred” 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Not to mention Adamsberg’s team, misfits who are nearly as eccentric as their boss. From Shanghai, Paris and Mississippi: new mysteries 2013-07-11T17:50:57Z His squad mates are kind of a Dirty Half-Dozen — misfits of one sort or another, not keen on authority and not shy about dishing out the rough stuff. ‘Gangster Squad’: Crime drama goes down in a hail of bullets 2013-01-09T22:44:00Z In 1978, he hit it big, producing "National Lampoon's Animal House," a juvenile comedy about the exploits of an out-of-control fraternity full of misfits at a preppy elite liberal arts college in the early 1960s. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Connie Converse’s songs, misfits in their own time, seem eerily prescient today in expressing our ache and ambivalence. Connie Converse’s Time Has Come 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Eisenberg, who as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network established his screen character as the impatient misfit always too smart for the room, spends the first half of Night Moves speaking barely at all. REVIEW: Night Moves: Political Thriller at a Slow Boil 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z When a two-suiter faces a misfitting hand, it is bad news for that side. Bridge: Open Swiss Teams at District 3 Winter Regional 2014-01-26T22:20:31Z Much of the movie follows the singer on the road in Europe, as she tussles with her band, a largely untalented group of misfits. Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z While this particular era may now be drawing to a close, the idea of the director as wilful misfit isn't dead, it's just got an awful lot older. Harmony Korine: still an enfant terrible at 37? 2010-06-18T14:16:00Z “If you want Kamau, I’m going to come with a band of misfits,” he told the Root. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z Trying on clothes isn’t an option, and colors often appear different in person, leading many shoppers to buy an item in multiple sizes or colors with the intention of sending back the misfits. Many Unhappy Returns? Online Holiday Shopping’s Big Hangover 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z He played in a couple of Orange County bands as a teenager, but felt like a misfit socially. Nick Waterhouse finds the right musical language 2012-10-04T16:30:00Z “Americana music is the island of the misfit toys. I am such a misfit,” she said. Brandi Carlile is Americana’s latest transcendent star. And she hasn’t forgotten her roots 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z To bring to life his latest collection of fictional misfits, Mr. Garcia turned to a real-life cast of oddballs and unlikely leads. When Hope Is a Thing With Diapers 2010-09-17T18:28:00Z Not until you fully believe in the story and in these beleaguered but spirited misfits does he slide a convincing bit of magic from his play’s tattered sleeve. McPherson keeps the faith in Irish drama ‘Night Alive’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z We were all roughly the same age, we were all misfits, and all that any of us wanted was to stop being afraid. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 21: It 2013-05-28T16:23:21Z A mysterious man tells her about a job at a bar called Millie’s, and soon Hallie is swept into a world of cheeky misfit bohemians. Review | Best new science fiction and fantasy this month 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Each of these men is a desperate misfit -- the stuttering prince and the would-be Aussie Shakespearean -- badly in need of a new friend and a bit more self-esteem. "The King's Speech": Colin Firth's Oscar-bound performance 2010-11-24T02:01:00Z It’s understandable if Majok’s intention is to demystify these misfits, nor impose a tidy plot on them. Satori Group takes you into the wild 2013-03-07T04:16:08Z The family friendly adventure follows a group of misfit dolls who learn to embrace what it means to be unique. Box Office: 'Avengers - Endgame' Assembles Second-Biggest Second... 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z In his book “The Big Short,” Michael Lewis focused on the Wall Street misfits who bet against the subprime mortgage bubble. Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z Barrowman hopes that this episode reminds people about what believes is extraordinary about "Doctor Who," that its hero accepts strong-willed and good misfits into their life without question. Like 2020, the Dr. Who special "Revolution of the Daleks" is dark 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z That’s what Hawkins and his band of extraterrestrial misfits are after, and exactly what the pair of seasoned storytellers that brought them to life did with the source material, warts and all. ‘Treasure Planet’ at 20: Disney’s Failed Space Odyssey Deserved to Soar 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The characters are straight out of a Wes Anderson film about well-heeled misfits, but real. Ivanka Trump is a person, allegedly 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z His brain throbs with misfit royalty, glamour as punk survival, attitude as liberation, style as revolution.” On the Runway: Rethinking the Mugler Man 2011-01-20T00:29:52Z A “Frankenstein” that ended with either misfit finding a comfortable place in the world would be a travesty. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z Dubbing them "misfits deserving of their win" and their album "deeply anomalous... bewitching and alluring", he added that "a lack of commercial success doesn't necessarily indicate a lack of commercial potential". Were Young Fathers the right winner? 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Carrie White, you’ll recall, is a high school misfit, sheltered by her religious-fanatic mother, who becomes the school laughingstock when she freaks out in the gym shower at having her first menstrual period. Carrie Is Back: The Resurrection and the Life 2012-03-05T14:35:27Z Instead, she runs away with a hokey crew of “mag kids” – young misfits who sell magazine subscriptions. I've never seen ... American Honey | Suzanne Moore 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z This part, too, is about punk rock, at least laterally: A 12-year-old misfit finds an outer expression of his unhappiness, and thus a small cure for it, in listening to the music. Hate, Hope and Healing at Under the Radar 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Contrary to common myth, bullies are less misfits than they are socially attuned Machiavellis. Studied: Studies Show Bullies Want Friends, Too 2010-05-21T23:50:00Z But further beneath those impulses, some fans wonder what this self-selected tribe of misfits and outcasts stands for. Beneath the Greasepaint, the Roar of ?Fam-i-ly!? 2011-05-01T22:37:41Z “High Fidelity’s” other obsession — record collecting — is an obvious misfit in the Spotify age, which the show doesn’t stop to fully ponder or, better yet, use as a means to fan an argument. Review | Sampling too much from the past, Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ remix fails to find its own groove 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z He gravitates to the kind of regional misfits who drew Flannery O’Connor’s eye, and his dialogue is snappy and eccentric, like a combination of two masters of the craft, Elmore Leonard and Charles Portis. Books of The Times: ‘A Million Heavens’ by John Brandon, Set in New Mexico 2012-07-17T21:16:28Z Popular follows the joys, miseries and "social fascism" of golden kids and misfits at fictional Kennedy High. Your next box set: Popular 2010-10-01T07:21:00Z “Game of Thrones,” plays the leader of the misfits, Walter O’Brien, whose history with Homeland Security types stretches back to long before there was a Homeland Security. Awkward Geniuses Battle Online Terrorism in ‘Scorpion’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Brisick offers nostalgic and often hilarious stories of a time when surfing was dominated by misfits and flamboyant eccentrics. Jamie Brisick describes Peter Drouyn's journey to 'Becoming Westerly' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z How this privileged young man became such a misfit remains a mystery. ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’: in Alaska, a patriarch runs amok 2013-08-01T22:57:59Z For all its lurid trappings — including nudity — this show really is a traditional American musical: a heartwarming tale of misfits who create a community by putting on a show. New in L.A. theater: 'Herland,' 'Harvey' and the porn musical 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z And who can stand against those forces except for some ragtag group of misfits who find common cause – funded, naturally, by a very wealthy and justice-driven benefactor? Want to punch a Nazi? Amazon's "Hunters" is the show for you 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z “After weeks on the road,” he continued, “I’m just finally realizing that I’m not the misfit on the tour — I’m accepted.” Reggie Watts, a Master of Improvisation 2010-05-28T22:35:00Z But refreshingly, they dive in as partners, not misfits yoked together by an umbilical cord. Review: Catastrophe Is Knocked Up, Grown Up 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z And what I thought then, and I still feel now, is that it’s because this is a room full of misfits, outcasts, loners, dreamers, mumblers, delinquents, dropouts – just like me. The Carpetbagger: Michelle Williams Amid Her Independent Tribe 2012-02-26T16:16:50Z Then, along with a misfit friend, Paul McCormick, Amy commits an act of industrial terrorism that leaves a man dead, jeopardizing her plans for college and maybe the rest of her life. Stabbed in the Convent, Murdered in the Yard 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z How ‘Freaks and Geeks’ went from misfit dramedy to cult classic, as told by its cast and creators: ‘People just like it so much that it thrusts itself from the grave’ Review | Seth Rogen’s hilarious memoir ‘Yearbook’ earns its superlatives 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z In outline the story told in “Terri” could not be more familiar: A misfit high school student, isolated and misunderstood, finds companionship with other oddballs, as well as a measure of self-acceptance. | 'Terri': Another Teenage Misfit Trying to Like Himself 2011-06-30T22:04:07Z Bras have been misfitting for years; suppliers failing to approximate women’s actual shapes. Are women's breasts getting bigger - or is it just our bras? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Director and writer James Gunn has an inimitably edgy, witty sensibility that is a perfect match for a story of outlaw misfits who form a dysfunctional but loving family unit. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z The show’s vaudevillian patchwork of stories about volatile 19th- and 20th-century misfits who murdered a president, or tried to, makes us laugh and leaves us humming. Review: This Revival of Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ Misses Its Mark 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z The trick to songwriting in Nashville, Clark said once, was “to find your group of misfit toys.” ‘Shucked’: A Broadway Musical That Doubles Down on the Corn 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Servers talk about Maydan’s lamb shoulder as if it’s a misfit toy, a treasure with caveats. Review | Maydan is the gathering place we’ve been waiting for 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Sympathy for the misfits and the marginalised is also leavened by self-mocking wit, as when Holly laments that, because she's "cursed with brains and looks", no one takes her seriously. Loserville – review 2012-06-27T16:53:55Z But music, and its power to unite a community of outsiders and misfits, remains the least-examined weapon in his arsenal. Charles Manson’s Musical Ambitions 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z His down-home mannerisms and his focus on misfits are offset by the fact that he is well educated, well traveled and also, in part thanks to Gilbert, who has introduced him around, reasonably well connected. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z Her party of misfits includes Numb Finger Pete, Sweet Tooth Sam, a pampered pet raccoon, and a man who was sentenced to 25 years in jail for a double homicide. ‘Lackawanna Blues’ Review: A Soulful Master Class in Storytelling 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z I like that Jerri was such a misfit and an outcast. Amy Sedaris on Her Hilarious New Show and Jerri Blank 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The Umbrella Academy, the comic book series about the adopted siblings and misfit heroes who inspired the Netflix show by the same name, is getting a spinoff: You Look Like Death. The Umbrella Academy Has a Spinoff: You Look Like Death 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The real monsters are the kids — misfit addicts, two-faced drug dealers. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: The World Starts to Crumble 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z A decade ago she was the spiky R&B misfit who screamed: "I hate you so much right now!" Kelis 2010-10-03T21:30:00Z On the upside, it’s got energy, lavish production values, and a talented cast playing a colorful collection of music-business misfits. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 5: Hannibal’s Anagrams 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z But despite the misfit nature of the characters and the stylishly gritty locales, the series was not made on the cheap; the budget is in the millions of dollars. ?Legion of Extraordinary Dancers,? Online Adventure 2010-06-25T04:17:00Z What you’ve seen him in: Playing one of the misfit boys in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and as a very scary teenager in “We Need to Talk About Kevin.” 5 up-and-comers to watch in 2015 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Baz, who becomes the leader of this band of misfits, asks Vic only two questions before offering him a place to stay: “Do you need help?” and “Did you hurt anyone?” Y.A. Crossover 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Disney, on the other hand, is always pretending to be something it’s not: it is a highly efficient profit machine that presents itself as a place where a merry band of misfits conjure happiness. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The three are in some ways a crew of misfits. Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Damien Chazelle Shoot for the Moon 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z It is clear that many white protagonists of the original wild west epic are in some sense misfits in, or refugees from, "civilisation", but that is not, I think, the main essence of their situation. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z While my white friends could lean into empathising with Kat as a fellow misfit and edgy alternative to Bianca’s bland popularity, I was aware that, if this movie was real life, I’d be the Chastity. Token ethnic friends: how pop culture taught me I was support, not the lead | Zoya Patel 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z They are misfits and never felt they belonged anywhere. "Free Solo" filmmakers recreated Thai soccer team cave rescue: "A massive and chaotic operation" 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Did she really just say “this merry band of misfits”? Yes, she did. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z "The Way, Way Back," about an introverted teenager who becomes friends with a group of misfits who work at a water park, drew cheers from Sundance crowds. The Carpetbagger: Pace of Sundance Sales Picks Up 2013-01-23T20:47:19Z It is a love story, in other words, about a misfit and a store. Sayaka Murata’s Eerie “Convenience Store Woman” Is a Love Story Between a Misfit and a Store 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Already shy, he was even more of a misfit in a place where he spoke the local language, Twi, with an American accent. Moses Sumney Does Not Sing Love Songs 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z He motions to one end that contains shirts in incongruous oranges and purples, the realm of misfit colors. For a Composer’s Style, Statement Pieces to Play and Wear 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z A brilliant misfit, loved and loathed by Helen, Lara terrorized her family for years. Their Parents Were Holocaust Survivors. That Wasn’t Their Only Secret. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Everything turned out fine, and the film, “Fun Size,” about a smart but disturbed teenager who loses her misfit younger brother on Halloween, is heading toward an October release. Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage Make Films for Paramount 2012-02-01T23:10:23Z It tells the story of a band of young misfits asserting themselves in a world that refuses to see their value. Review: ‘Patti Cake$,’ a Classic Striver’s Tale With a Hip-Hop Beat 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z By the mid-2000s, the misfits and drag queens she had nurtured had mostly fled to the outer boroughs, replaced by bankers and bottle service. Not Going Gentle Into That Good Night 2013-07-10T21:41:08Z Ah yes, we're deep in Thompson territory in "The Rum Diary," a chaotic land of misfits, cynics, hustlers and drunkards. 'The Rum Diary': Johnny Depp is intoxicating 2011-10-26T22:12:05Z “Guardians of the Galaxy” follows a motley team of otherworldly misfits, including a talking raccoon, led by Pratt’s character. Marvel announces ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ sequel 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z As these misfits suggest, Southern stereotypes run as thick here as in any episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Review: ‘Trial & Error’ Features a Confederacy of Dunces 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z I was 16 when, at the end of a particularly tedious summer term, I returned to peacetime Brittany a half-grown English misfit. John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z A caseworker is sent to investigate six magical misfits at an island orphanage. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z But perhaps because the material runs in the same emotional grooves as that show — also a story of misfits finding self-acceptance through competition — true inspiration arrives only intermittently here. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z The prose in “A Gambler’s Anatomy” is nearly always this good, and Mr. Lethem has a touching sense of the lives of obsessive misfits. Review: In Jonathan Lethem’s ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy,’ a Hustler’s Luck Runs Cold 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The genius of basing a show on misfits is, of course, that everyone has, at some point, felt out of place, misunderstood, under-appreciated. Glad to be Glee 2011-01-06T20:30:01Z The biggest joke of all is that these motley misfits are not just teaching language but imparting English values to eager foreigners; yet they themselves embody, to a fault, the English failure to connect emotionally. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z Second of all: The Cannes authorities are stupid too, by granting one misfit film director's idiotic remarks more power to injure than they should reasonably possess. Cannes: Lars von Trier's "Nazi" scandal gets even dumber 2011-05-19T16:35:00Z Now he's playing another smart misfit in DreamWorks Animation's "Home," which opens March 27. Jim Parsons on the acrobatics of his animated role in 'Home' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z A clique of misfit teenagers in suburban England sit on adulthood’s cusp, lamenting their middle-class lives and fretting for their futures. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z She mentions 1989’s Steel Magnolias, in which she played a frowsy southern misfit behind thick, horn-rimmed specs. Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The sweet 9-year-old misfits make a pact to get married in secret. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “It’s the whole aspect of this island of misfit toys that’s untapped,” he said. | Below the Line: The Oscar-Nominated Editor of 'Moneyball' Deconstructs a Scene 2012-02-08T18:00:35Z Like Shakespeare's antihero, the misfit at the centre of Little Shop of Horrors gets his first break through his own skill and resourcefulness. Little Shop of Horrors – review 2012-06-07T17:15:01Z He was the original rock critic as misfit. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Curtis Armstrong made an unfortunate name for himself as the grumpy and misogynistic campus misfit Booger in the classic ’80s comedy “Revenge of the Nerds.” WATCH: Curtis Armstrong’s ultimate nerd revenge 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z It felt like the kind of thing you read in a storybook, like Swallows and Amazons or something, a group of misfits, who barely knew each other bonding over a moment. The Good Old Days: two Libertines fans share their stories 2010-08-27T15:19:00Z The old, the misfit, the infirm – they don't need to be denied their dignity whatever the circumstances. How a modest Italian film trumped the extravagance of Donizetti 2010-06-18T09:00:00Z The 2004 film starred Vaughn as the slacker owner of a gym who bands together with his misfit friends and enters a dodgeball tournament to foil the plans of Stiller and his corporate gym. Dodgeball to bounce back to big screen 2013-04-23T12:41:54Z By 2012, the young people who came to San Francisco were neither dropouts nor misfits. Sex in Silicon Valley: are millennials better at free love? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z He calls this grab bag, which includes Benjamin Franklin, Damon Runyon and James Thurber, “a strange collection of geniuses, worldly failures, drunks, misfits, cripples and gifted idiots.” Books of The Times: Laughing Matters: Discuss 2010-12-07T23:00:00Z He’s the straight man in a family of misfits who just wants a chance for his needs to matter more than his brother’s do. Speechless: Minnie Driver's fast-paced sitcom has a lot to say 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s a neat trick, because in Gaga world, almost everybody qualifies as a misfit. Album review: Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way' 2011-05-20T05:36:35Z Another day, another collection of socially dysfunctional misfits convinced they are the next Whitney Houston or David Blaine. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z An abused mother and her children move into a house full of misfits stuck in the 1960s. Lukas Moodysson’s ‘We Are the Best!,’ About a Punk Band 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z “Everybody in that school was a misfit or a reject,” Green said. Danny McBride Keeps It Righteous 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z “The most joy we had,” Ms. Blair said, “was seeing all our friends, who are this group of misfit toys, all glamorous and dressed up and feeling themselves.” From ‘Yes, and’ to ‘I Do’ 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Arbus's images were transgressive in both their form and content: harsh black and white shots of so-called freaks, outsiders and misfits. John Szarkowski 2010-07-20T11:05:00Z The presentation of Stalin and his cronies as a collection of foul-mouthed misfits serves little useful purpose. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Reworked considerably from the original material, the film became the story of a young robotics prodigy who forms a team of misfit superheroes to defeat a mysterious masked villain. Disney's animation building getting a Pixar face-lift all its own 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z She was a photographer forever at home among the artistic misfits. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z The addictive “My Husband’s Wife” is populated with messed-up yet sympathetic misfits who remind us that the past can maintain a stranglehold on the future. Best mysteries and thrillers to read this month 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z "The Inbetweeners" TV show followed four misfits through high school, while the movie sees them graduate and embark on their first boys' vacation. Record opening for `The Inbetweeners Movie' 2011-08-23T12:01:07Z It was just weird and silly enough that I could connect with it, and then this touching ballad between two misfits came along and sealed the deal. The Short List: Show tunes we love 2013-06-05T22:13:52Z The story follows Jade Daniels, a 17-year-old misfit who dyes her hair with shoe polish and food coloring and counts overalls and combat boots as wardrobe essentials. Review | Stephen Graham Jones’s ‘My Heart Is a Chainsaw’ will delight horror movie fans 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Krekel, who plays Aurora, said the dancers in Ms. Pyle’s group connect as “the misfits of ballet.” Katy Pyle and Her ‘Misfits of Ballet’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Some of the material feels fairly standard, as they share misfit upbringings and showbiz gossip, but each veteran comedian lends an unpredictable element through self-deprecating candor. ‘Joy Ride’ Review: Still Standing 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In it Caroll unveiled a new layer, speaking candidly about his childhood trauma, about feeling like a misfit himself and the extent to which he was bullied for not fitting in. Big Bird was my pen pal: Here's what I learned from Caroll Spinney 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Enter the fictional Ms. Phelps with a plan to stock her team with misfits and over-the-hill veterans so that fans would stay away and trigger an attendance clause that would let her relocate to Miami. Margaret Whitton, ‘Major League’ Actress, Dies at 67 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Prince Harry’s new book, “Spare,” has made headlines this week for its revealing descriptions of his life as a misfit royal. Analysis | Prince Harry’s rejection of fashion is a fashion statement of its own 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z "ParaNorman" - in U.S. movie theaters on Friday - follows the journey of a young misfit with the ability to speak to the dead. Zombies get new lease of life in "ParaNorman" 2012-08-15T21:30:19Z The icing on this amusing cake is Mary McCormack, who plays Casey, an American and the no-nonsense vice president of the company that bought the four misfits’ concept. Review: ‘Loaded’ and the Amusing Pitfalls of Sudden Wealth 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z It's a nice touch that extends a wide embrace to renegades and misfits and anyone brave enough to flip conformity the bird. 'Girlfriend' visits the sweet, tender and perilous summer love of two young men 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The Angels' Share is a dramatic comedy about a visit to a whisky distillery by a group of misfit young offenders who are inspired to change their lives. Haneke wins his second Palme d'Or 2012-05-28T11:19:37Z Behind it are intricate algorithms, and the ability to manipulate them fuels Zuckerberg’s rise from social misfit to captain of industry. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z In the sequel, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow reprise their roles as members of the misfit college a cappella group the Bellas. Box Office: 'Tomorrowland' battles 'Pitch Perfect 2' at the top 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Having left behind a life of privilege, Suttree spends his days fishing, trawling Knoxville’s seedy underbelly and mingling with drunks, grifters and misfits. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z For Murray, "Rock the Kasbah" promises to offer up another of the quirky-yet-melancholy misfits he has come to specialize in as an actor. 'Rock the Kasbah' trailer: Bill Murray is down and out in Afghanistan 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z You know the one: a bunch of rag-tag misfits band together and beat their far more talented, far more mean-spirited rivals at the movie’s climax. 20 Things We Learned About The Sandlot After Talking With Scotty Smalls 2013-04-09T16:03:08Z When the B-52’s played “Rock Lobster” on “Saturday Night Live” in January 1980, a few months after releasing their debut album, it was a lightning-strike moment for a generation of young misfits and oddballs. The Superbly Original, Gloriously Weird B-52’s Say Farewell to the Road 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z I call them my misfit toys, and they build a home together at the bar.” How an Elvis impersonator-turned-drag queen was born: Playwright Matthew Lopez on 'Georgia McBride' 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z But what started out as an odd, emotionally charged series about motley misfits getting their lives back together is in the process of becoming… something to be determined. Review: Community Comes to Yahoo, the Same But Different 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Eventually he returns to a kindergarten class, where he is again a misfit. Music Review: ?Benjamin Button,? the Opera, at Symphony Space 2010-06-16T21:11:00Z "How to Build a Girl" is tailor-made for Feldstein's talents, allowing her to shine as a misfit teen who is often humiliated, but uses her smarts to get the upper hand. Playing a teen rock critic "scared the crap out" of Beanie Feldstein in "How to Build a Girl" 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z After that it became a little tougher to see him as a lovable misfit on-screen when he behaved like such an irresponsible brat off it. Confessions of a Reformed Shia Labeouf Fan 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z A gifted musician in a family that forbids music, he is a bit like Remy, the “Ratatouille” rat whose kin were hostile to his artistic ambition, and like Mumble, the misfit penguin in “Happy Feet.” Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Previous books, she felt, “all treated the single girl like a scarlet-fever victim, a misfit.” Helen Gurley Brown, 1922-2012 2012-08-13T20:07:00Z That volume, dense with misfits and often comically poisonous thoughts that act as coagulants, read as if the author were playing many games of blitz chess at once. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z A misfit college baseball team schemes to raise $50,000 in one day to avoid being disbanded. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Some lesser poems feature lines that teeter on the precipice of bluntness and cliché: “You’re contrary/You are the misfit/All along/Though you don’t think it/You are wrong.” Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z During their trials, prosecutors convinced the juries that the murders had been part of a Satanic ritual by the town’s adolescent misfits. Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z “Tales From Soprano Isle” is the autobiographical “Cinderella”-like story of high school misfit obsessed with musical theater who escaped captivity to realize her Broadway dreams. Review: Laura Benanti Shows Range With Songs and Stories 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The Danish photographer finds something of real beauty and excitement among this population too often dismissed as misfits and hard cases. New art photo books explore the famous and 'unfamous' among us 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The way the story goes, this musical collaboration widens and includes a misfit pickup band they recruit for a recording session. ‘Once’ again bares the soul of a Dublin busker, this time on stage 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z A show aimed at theatergoers who are — or ever have been — adolescent misfits has a potentially endless audience. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But in a remarkably short time, he had moved to Milan, where after a brief stint designing furniture, he began showing artworks that dramatized his own sense of being an untrained outsider, a misfit. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z What is interesting about the divers is that they dedicated their lives to something that is obscure, weird, or random because they are misfits and can't fit, and they found a place to fit. "Free Solo" filmmakers recreated Thai soccer team cave rescue: "A massive and chaotic operation" 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Why was I a misfit geek in a family of extroverts? — while presenting other mysteries that Hannah Olson’s documentary “Baby God,” streaming on HBO Max, meditates upon rather than vainly attempts to solve. ‘Baby God’ Review: Sins of the Father 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Inspired by the 1990 indie film “Slacker,” Richard Linklater’s “day in the life” portrait of misfits and eccentrics in Austin, Texas, Smith eyed his own workaday existence as a convenience store clerk. The Not-So-Silent Friendship of Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z His character, Seaman Joseph Haines, one of a crew of misfits aboard a World War II PT boat, was known as Happy. Gavin MacLeod, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and ‘Love Boat’ Actor, Dies at 90 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z For years, dabbing has been considered an outcast subculture within the misfit world of cannabis. Wanna get really high? Take a dab in the world of concentrates 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s not like falling off a cliff, or perhaps going through life without finding a community where misfits can shine and excel. Chills, Thrills and Spills: How Alex Honnold Conquered El Capitan 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But watching Denzel Washington, its star, lead a band of misfits on a revolver-toting frolic through the Old West is still a fun outing. What’s on TV Friday: ‘A Land Imagined’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’ 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z New York artist Kathy Butterly has spent the past couple of decades crumbling clay into cheery, misfit forms that appear to topple, yet don’t. In London, Collectors Get Fired Up for Ceramics 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The hero, fighting off an invasion force of alien robots, falls in with a motley group of misfits, in whom he must instill the competence and confidence necessary for the task. ‘Lightyear’ Review: Infinite Buzz 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z This is fundamentally an Eisenhower-era misfit story, and there are a lot of those. A New Biography of Janis Joplin Captures the Pain and Soul of an Adventurous Life 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Smith's baritone echoes with villains and misfits, drunks and philistines. Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Attenborough played underdogs and misfits in a string of character roles after World War Two, notably "Brighton Rock", "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" and "10 Rillington Place". Oscar-winning British film director Richard Attenborough dies: BBC 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z For Season 3, it’s junior year for the ragtag group of misfits, and it brings all the joys and horrors of high-school life. Tuesday TV Picks: Season premiere of MTV’s ‘Awkward.’ 2013-04-15T21:54:17Z His superpowers come at a price, so he relies on an entertaining group of misfits to help him overcome his paranoia and live a normal life. TV highlights 11/07/2012 2012-07-10T18:59:01Z “We are like a little circus of misfits,” Ms. Anderson told Blackbook at the time, “living little wild lives that just fit together and are somehow complementary.” Richie Rich, the ’90s Club Kid, Goes Virtual for Beauty 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z She's part of the ensemble of "Scorpion," CBS' new drama that premieres Monday and is about a group of misfit geniuses recruited by U.S. 'Scorpion' with singer Katharine McPhee may ease the sting of 'Smash' 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of misfit role that Eliza Dushku played in “Bring It On,” and lest any viewer miss the cues, Marti plays a DVD of “Bring It On” to prepare for her tryout. | 'Nikita'; 'Hellcats': Lethal Woman With Weapons Is Out for Covert Vengeance 2010-09-07T22:00:00Z Mr. Askins possesses a perfect ear for teenage voices and the aggressive jostling for position among troubled or misfit adolescents. Theater Review: ?Hand to God,? by Robert Askins, at Ensemble Studio Theater 2011-11-12T00:45:29Z For now, though, his triumph is an absolute blast to witness, akin to the scrappy band of misfits pranking the rich kids from across the lake in some ’80s summer-camp comedy. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 2: Part of the Firmament 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z When someone finally put her in touch with Seidenberg, "it all congealed – I took this ragtag group of misfits and made them into a team". New York magazines – start spreading the news 2013-01-06T00:07:33Z Mr. Harmon was sweating every minuscule detail in this NBC comedy he created about misfit friends at a lackluster community college. Dan Harmon on ‘Community’ 2013-12-18T17:00:01Z Like the misfit musicians who bought the Velvet Underground’s first album, the young kids of the seventies who pored over the first set of D. & D. manuals all went out to make their own games. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z GP Fashion is this funny, dysfunctional playground for misfits. Guido Palau’s Good Hair Days 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z They speak of their practice as inclusive and pluralistic, but also self-define as rejects, misfits and seekers, drawing a protective boundary around their own otherness. Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Jackson grew up working-class, in a family mostly uninterested in the arts; in school, he felt like a misfit, bad at sports, socially unredeemed by his talent for violin and piano. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z As a misfit teen in rural Appalachia, music was a lifeline for me. Sitting in front of David Berman's old apartment in the middle of the night 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Still, it’s not hard to imagine how a kid who couldn’t help standing out in the schoolyard would grow into a misfit incapable of forming genuine bonds with those she meets and discards. ‘Return to Seoul’ Review: Found in Translation 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z And there is something of Jacques Tati in Tora-san’s eternal outsider status: the slightly old-fashioned misfit who will never adapt to modern ways of doing things. DVDs: Amiable Tramp Drifting Through Postwar Japan 2010-03-05T23:18:00Z They settle on a galactic hinterland that's home to their very distant relatives, along with pioneers and misfits making the best of homesteads, uncertainty and dismissal by supposedly superior societies. Lord brings Caribbean voice to science fiction 2013-02-11T13:43:08Z He wasn't above raiding the classic rock fortress for ideas, but also excavated deep below in search of subterranean misfits to emulate. "Nevermind" 30 years on — how Nirvana’s second album tilted the world on its axis 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Texas congressman Pat Fallon called the insurrectionists "a mob of misfits." What "Loki," "Lucifer" and "Cruella" tell us about our love affair with rewriting ugly stories 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Yet the story didn't end with a trio of misfits going off to prison, or with a tidy sense of justice for a shattered community. The West Memphis Three rewrite their own endings 2011-08-22T22:10:00Z Films about a band of intergalactic misfits, two terminally ill teenage lovebirds and a frat-battling newlywed couple are among the nominees for this year's MTV Movie Awards. MTV Movie Awards: 'Guardians,' 'Fault,' 'Neighbors' lead nominations 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It revolves around this band of misfit kids who are really quite smart. "The View" alum Sherri Shepherd doesn't want any more drama 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Although Gough's mannered elegance was hardly suited to the social misfits erupting in the new wave of British drama or the theatre of the absurd, he did not ignore either movement. Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z The "arts" conjures up images of committees of bores, worthily reverent exegesis, the horrors of dance, the misfit between opera and even a 42-inch screen, and ancient avant-gardist cliches – "ahead of its time", "ground-breaking", "controversial". Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z Corgan was a stoop-shouldered suburban misfit from a splintered household, much like many in his audience, and “Siamese Dream” became a soundtrack for a significant portion of his generation. Smashing Pumpkins revisit breakthrough albums 2011-11-27T21:47:00Z David Bowie’s dense catalog is a rich portrait of the ways in which he subverted rock and pop norms, exalted his fellow misfits and delighted in reinvention. All the Young Bands: The Artists David Bowie Championed 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Do the show's producers really think a parade of tone-deaf misfits is entertaining? 'American Idol' judges come down to earth in the City of Angels 2011-02-04T06:46:04Z And so back to the river and the Isle of Dogs, the misfit peninsula three-quarters cut off from the city. First the gangsters, then the bankers: how The Long Good Friday foretold the future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Richie gives a speech about how music makes misfits feel that they’re not alone and encourages everyone to go crazy and spray paint the walls. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z The strength of the X-Men franchise has always been its metaphorical embracing of diversity; a celebration of the talented misfit in an age of bland conformity. X-Men: Days of Future Past review – star-stuffed extravaganza 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Moreover, there are plenty of remarks about the orphans being feared and stigmatized, misfits and outcasts, as well as second-class citizens. Aw, shucks! "12 Mighty Orphans" is the Depression-era underdog sports hokum you've been missing 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z "Love Hard" feels like a misfit created in a Christmas lab as opposed to a confectionary. "Love Hard," a holiday catfish story masquerading as a romance, is a swipe right and a miss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z It’s always comforting to be back among the misfits and malcontents of the fictional Spilling police department. Review: In Sophie Hannah’s ‘Woman With a Secret,’ Mysteries Multiply 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Skinny, twitchy and at times startlingly graceful — Phoenix is one of the modern screen’s underrated dancers — Arthur has a physical and psychological resemblance to Freddie Quell, the misfit drifter Phoenix played in “The Master.” ‘Joker’ Review: Are You Kidding Me? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z McCartney enclosed a mix of some of his tunes, including "Michelle," and asked Murphy to consider using them on the series about high school misfits in a glee club. `Glee' co-creator says Paul McCartney is a big fan 2010-08-03T01:48:00Z It may be one of the last first-person accounts of the Great Depression — complete with Ira hopping boxcars with hobos and misfits. 'An American Type': Henry Roth's monumental saga concludes, thanks to a New Yorker editor 2010-07-07T20:48:00Z Scanners are misfits with telekinetic powers who don't fit into society. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-04-06T05:00:10Z Both are misfits navigating that scary bridge between adolescence and young adulthood. ‘Edge of our Bodies’: a teen lost in reality, memory 2014-04-03T21:26:07Z From my perch on the second floor, the women and a third dancer, Addys Gonzalez, looked like poetic, almost tragic misfits in a landscape dotted with picnicking families and bluegrass bands. River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Bo and a barnyard of misfits are drawn into the couple’s journey to Bethlehem and evil Herod’s plot to find the newborn king of the Jews. Kids holiday movies offer a generous helping of entertainment 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Here is a rundown of Cumberbatch's best misfits in movies that prove his genius as an actor. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Despite the diamond misfit, North correctly evaluated his heart and club honors. Bridge: At the Game?s Highest Level, Communication Is Everything 2011-05-22T21:58:39Z I suspect Arbus, a champion of underdogs and interesting misfits, would have preferred it. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z In the film, Art Carney plays a crotchety old man who, with his cat, Tonto, travels across an America populated by misfits, including his own children. Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z "Guardians," the newest franchise from the Disney-owned Marvel universe, follows a rogue band of misfits on an intergalactic space adventure. 'Guardians' rallies summer box office with $11.2 million opening night 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The TV show followed four misfits through high school while the movie sees them graduate and embark on their first boys vacation. "The Inbetweeners Movie" holds London premiere 2011-08-16T13:00:12Z Answers will arrive, but good luck catching them in the ensuing melee when Kate is rescued by a raggedy band of misfit soldiers that excels mainly at delivering B-movie dialogue like “Kill anything that shrieks!” ‘The Lair’ Review: Going Underground 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z A natural comedian, he thought he was a misfit and constructed an endlessly playful persona for himself. Eiji Kusuhara obituary 2010-05-27T17:58:00Z If only all social misfits were as stealthily charming as Eric Muller, the nerdy narrator of Gabriel Roth’s sparkling debut novel. Books of The Times: ‘The Unknowns’ Is Gabriel Roth’s Debut Novel 2013-07-10T20:23:36Z |
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