| 单词 | oddball |
| 例句 | I really am an oddball, he thought, with a feeling of disappointment. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Other mutant flies had forked bristles; sable-colored bodies; curved legs; bent, batlike wings; disjointed abdomens; deformed eyes—a Halloween’s parade of oddballs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There were practical jokes, including one on Hubert Hudson, the navigator, who was generally considered an oddball and a sitting duck for jokes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Geeks, nerds, and oddballs have the right to attend school in safety. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of his new employees were distinctly oddballs for an academic laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many of these lads felt like targets of a new hunt for oddballs—suspects in a bizarre, systematic search for the strange and the alienated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later the oddball vendor wheeled his wagon out onto the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A few oddballs from the Political Science department wore black armbands. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The others at Camp Jupiter saw him as a traveling oddball, about as harmless as the fauns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “But for God’s sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z In every package there’s one oddball thing from Adah, a sort of secret message is how I think of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By the third week in September, although the sixth graders were still teasing April—from a safe distance—they were beginning to think of her rather proudly, as their own private oddball. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z To be sure, people sensed he was an oddball at the time, disconcertingly gifted, outspoken, irreverent - in short, a strange mix of child and sage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “That’s okay. I lose myself. It’s just my oddball way of accounting for someone I don’t really understand any more than you do.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z But I had a striking sense that if I’d had a son, he would, at the core, be a lot like this brainy, combative oddball sitting in a musty apartment in a small Idaho town. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Calder wondered if he was becoming just as much of an oddball. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z They use ’em for oddball stuff, like holding back wires or keeping wood together while it’s being glued. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But I don’t have one, because I’ve only ever felt like an oddball. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z In the secret world of cryptanalysis, Meredith Gardner had earned a reputation as something of an oddball superstar. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the educational system’s pervasive responses to Littleton was to lecture oddballs and geeks about the importance of not slaughtering others. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His accomplishments with Seabiscuit were the wonder of the racing world, and the man who had been considered an obscure oddball a year before now enjoyed cult status among his peers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Reynie did, but he had always been alone in this, had always been considered an oddball. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A humane society truly concerned about its children would worry less about oddballs, computer games, and clothing, and more about creating the kind of schools kids would never dream of blowing up. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the tale, banished lovers meet in the forest amid disguises, danger and a motley collection of oddballs. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ on Asphalt, From Shakespeare in the Parking Lot 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s a gentle comedy that focuses on the oddballs in the town, and the relatable, warm and refreshing dynamics of Emma and Daniel’s friendship. ‘There’s no Brexit or Trump’: how Rosehaven became 'the best thing to watch while hungover' 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The Signature Theater’s production of Stephen Adley Guirgis’s play about a group of oddballs who gather to mourn a beloved nun prepares to rest in peace. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z So begins this oddball love story between Nakajima, a young student, and Chihiro, a young artist, who both live in Tokyo. Newly Released Books 2011-05-18T22:35:53Z 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 He’s an oddball by nature who also seems to have genuinely cultivated a disregard for conventional success. Norm Macdonald’s Often Funny, Always Fabulist ‘Based on a True Story’ 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Like all of Mitchell’s subjects, Gould was an eminently quotable oddball. Review: ‘Man in Profile’ Studies Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z With the help of several oddball characters, Byx realizes that finding the colony is crucial not only to her species but to creatures of all kinds. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Unlikely Heroes’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z This raucous celebration brings to mind a recent live show by another oddball experimentalist. Reggie Watts, the Tip of Comedy’s Absurdist Spear 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z It was quite a mad, rough place back then, full of oddballs and artists. Peter Doig: the art of the foreign 2013-07-27T21:00:01Z As an oddball character actress, she has rarely played roles that felt true to her own experience, she said. Greta Lee Is Still a Pool Shark 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z “Big River” is a show with an oddball nature. Review: A New ‘Big River,’ Endearing but Ill Timed 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Saturated in regional detail and studded with oddballs, it has the flavor of Southern Gothic without the bitter aftertaste. In ‘The Kingdoms of Savannah,’ Oddballs Circle Around a Murder Mystery 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Every day we would text each other a single photo from our oddball work lives: a Nascar race in Charlotte; a tricycle factory in Queens. I Wanted to Be Dominated. But Not Quite Like That. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z She understands being the oddball outsider at high school. Rukmini Callimachi: the podcasting terror expert getting into the minds of Isis 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The oddballs around her also lighten the mood: her hostile black housemaid; her dangerous, Byronic drug connection; and her wayward yardman. A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Naomie, you have been bashing Cambridge, saying it was awful and that you felt like an oddball. Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet' 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z While the crowd lapped up pre-encore fan favorite “Go With the Flow,” “Villains of Circumstance” – the new record’s quasi title track and closing opus – proved an oddball highlight earlier on. Queens of the Stone Age returns to its birth city for a ferocious concert at Seattle’s KeyArena 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z This baffling, lysergic rabbit-hole of oddballs in a deeply weird town redefined what television could be – more like a film than TV, more like a novel than a film. #TeamLogLady! How the world finally caught up with Twin Peaks 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Barnum started his career not with exotic animals but with human oddballs. Kids holiday movies offer a generous helping of entertainment 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z It was an oddball choice, not just for a rapper from Harlem, but even in an age where the line between rapping and singing has been all but obliterated. Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg, Hip-Hop Progressives 2013-08-15T16:50:54Z A defiantly gay Los Angeles band making proto punk and oddball disco through much of the 1970s, Smokey gunned for mainstream success while remaining totally unwilling to hide their truth. Throwbacks: Summer reissues of strange surf music, gay proto-punk, 'Robocop' and more But the production team fails to capitalize on an obvious opportunity to use Morini's home to expound on her oddball personality - instead placing her in an apartment that is generally nondescript. Review: Artist meets artisan in 'The Morini Strad' 2012-04-04T15:10:12Z In 1966, she had a role as Tuesday Weld’s suicidal mother in the oddball serio-comedy “Lord Love a Duck,” for which she won a best-acting award at the Berlin Film Festival. Lola Albright, alluring actress in stylish ‘Peter Gunn’ TV series, dies at 92 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z One online tourist site describes the museum as “of oddball interest only.” 3 Quiet Museums in Rome 2013-09-06T17:28:54Z He’s easy enough to talk to, with a pleasing dose of oddball intensity lurking beneath his sleepy exterior. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I would love to not talk about my personal life’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The very essence of our chronotype makes us oddballs, prone to looking at life through a different lens. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z But “Idol” was also a kind of oddball variety show. ‘American Idol’ Ends With One Final Argument Over the Winner 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z That was part of it, especially as Liz Lemon found just the right oddball match for herself in Criss these final two seasons. 30 Rock Finale: I Lizzed, I Cried 2013-02-01T02:01:45Z With such oddballs as these two holding forth, social criticism is very much a spectator sport. Dancing some pleasing duets at the Contemporary American Theater Festival Lynne Sherman, 71, a semiretired patternmaker, said she had gone to the film because “I just like oddball black-and-white old films.” The Last Picture Show? Moviegoers Cautiously Take a Seat 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The prize, which is open to any English-language book published in the United Kingdom, went last year to George Saunders’s soaring, oddball short story collection “Tenth of December.” 'Family Life,' by Akhil Sharma, Wins Folio Prize 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z AJC The oddballs have been buzzed out of the building and now the ratings rhino hits a week of live semi-finals in which the public bash those phone lines to vote for the new Pudsey. TV highlights 27/05/2013 2013-05-27T05:59:01Z And I was sort of an oddball,” recalled the director, known for “Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men” and “Word Is Bond.” Coming to Terms With the Legacy of Rick James 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The short version is this: A bunch of oddballs — nerds and fanboys, toy collectors and cosplayers, gamers and fantasists — invaded the mainstream and planted themselves at the vital center of the entertainment industry. At Comic-Con, It Feels Like the Year of the Woman 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But thanks to the niche imperative, this charming, oddball exercise in cultural excavation is back for a second season, beginning on Wednesday. Review: ‘Documentary Now!’ Skewers Politicians and Food Fetishists 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z "She does weird, like, quirky things. Like, she doesn't like dill but she loves parsley. She loves olives, but not the black ones . . . she's a little bit of an oddball." Jenna Lyons brings introvert representation to "The Real Housewives of New York City" 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z Into this turbulence stepped Vahey, who some staff members thought of as an oddball. How did one of the worst paedophiles in history get away with his crimes? | Robert Booth 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z TV has always had a soft spot for geeks and oddballs, and critics zeroed in on the actor and role when “The Middle” made its debut in September. Television: Peculiar on and Off Set: Atticus Shaffer of ?The Middle? 2010-05-08T03:09:00Z By summer's end, the good doctor's hyper-enthusiastic voice will be heard only on the Internet as it introduces oddball classics such as "There's a Fungus Among Us," "Fish Heads" and "Dead Puppies." Dr. Demento leaving radio for the Internet 2010-06-30T14:52:00Z He played “Castles,” with its oddball Riff Raff sample, and “Ace Hood Flow,” his statement of purpose about the uniqueness of British rap. Review: Skepta Returns to the Rugged at Palisades and MoMA PS1 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z There were these oddball shapes and things that were compositionally whimsical. Comics artist Scott McCloud on art, death and drawing bad sculpture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z “Florida” is bright and goofy, a low-key hangout show full of oddballs and strange schemes; think “My Name Is Earl” but with more bathing suits, less karma and one rotting manatee carcass. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z She’s joined artists, aging hippies and retirees in finding sanctuary in this charming town of oddballs. Valerie Plame, America’s most famous ex-spy, finds her new identity 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Around that same time she snapped pictures of men on the street who whistled or cat-called when she passed, oddball mug shots that were also sly tributes to overlooked New Yorkers. Abroad: When Art and Energy Were SoHo Neighbors 2011-04-29T18:01:57Z While other designers were casting their shows with classically beautiful runway swans, Margiela was plucking oddballs from the street to walk in his shows. Perspective | Martin Margiela did himself a favor: He anticipated fashion’s future — and its failures 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Others in their Asian American community see Moon as an oddball and not a great influence on Christine. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Discovering Secrets’ 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z If he's going to do bad movies — and his tax bills and oddball tastes say he must — at least let him do good bad movies. 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance': Nic Cage at his wound-up out best 2012-02-17T17:33:02Z Or will he now appear perfectly, boringly at home and no longer the neurotic oddball among laidback Californians? Will a move from LA to New York Curb Your Enthusiasm? 2010-05-20T09:55:00Z The character is prickly, slightly perverse and definitely an oddball, which puts him pretty squarely in Hart's wheelhouse. Kevin Hart: Five movie roles you probably forgot about 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z But inside Bloom's introverted, oddball self lies someone with an intense desire to find success in the corporate world. Jake Gyllenhaal prowls wild side in LA thriller 'Nightcrawler' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Each episode features the story of one of his oddball clients, who are always looking to puff for very different reasons. The week's best TV: American Horror Story and High Maintenance 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z But elsewhere, the prevailing assembly-line, build-it-yourself model baffled me; there were too many mix-ins and toppings, including oddball interlopers like corn and kale, and the marinades were more like heavy sauces. Home to Hawaii in Search of Poke 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z When it comes to discussing what these oddball shapes might mean, Mr. Price is notoriously elusive, so one infers what one can. The Blobs Aren?t Talking 2010-03-03T23:54:00Z Shannon, tousled and fidgety and barking out his lines as if they hurt, provides some oddball humor; telling fellow cops, as an excuse to go back to his desk, "Um, I forgot my bullets." 'Premium Rush': Bike-messenger chase delivers popcorn-movie fun 2012-08-23T15:57:05Z It is worth recalling the words of that manager while watching Ant-Man, an oddball addition to the Marvel movie stable. Michael Peña: 'I'm not funny. I just point out what's funny in others' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Here and in the earlier picture it’s perhaps easy to apprehend Dumont’s approach with a “What’s this oddball up to now?” smirk. ‘Joan of Arc’ Review: The Saint Is Revisited in Song 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The film works because Mr Lewis’s book focused on a group of oddball outsiders who realised before anyone else that the American economy was heading for disaster. Short and sweet 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z "Dune" may have defeated David Lynch in 1984, but it didn't ruin him; time has transformed the convoluted debacle into an oddball classic many view with affection. "Dune" is the masterful adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic we've been waiting for 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Bonham Carter is the establishment’s oddball – uninhibited, direct, forceful, funny and, at times, vulnerable. Helena Bonham Carter: ‘Standing up to Harvey wasn’t easy’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Overlooked by the guild were past nominees Quentin Tarantino for his slave-revenge tale "Django Unchained" and David O. Russell for his oddball romance "Silver Linings Playbook." Spielberg earns 11th Directors Guild nomination 2013-01-08T22:16:06Z He is challenged by Galifianakis' Marty Huggins, the oddball scion of an old political family who is reluctantly called up to run on the Republican ticket. Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis: Seattle crowd was 'quite a shock' 2012-07-25T21:48:09Z At the center of this universe sits Papageno, a colorful, intractably disorderly oddball in muddied outdoor gear, an everyman turned unlikely superman who, in spurning the cultural mores that would shackle him, rises above them. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Howard's score captures Zátopek's oddball personality by setting him at a slight harmonic variant with the rest of the field. Zátopek! – review 2012-06-18T17:35:31Z He has the knack of creating a unique atmosphere for the show, playing great tracks you wouldn't otherwise hear side by side, and keeping the show a little bit oddball and unpredictable, but also friendly. A week in radio: John Cooper Clarke on A Month of Sundays 2012-05-31T20:00:02Z “At first, I thought I’d do an international show of real people who haven’t been discovered, who understand art but are outside the establishment — the mystics and oddball characters,” he says. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z It features Christopher Walken in a beautifully controlled, quietly moving performance; without a whiff of the usual oddballs he tends to play. And now, a few words from Christopher Walken 2012-11-12T18:03:15Z To Caitlin Sandburg, her hometown of San Francisco provides a safe haven—for oddballs. These Are America's Quirkiest Cities 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But in any entertainment incarnation, this oddball species, whose hairlessness is only one of its unusual attributes, doesn’t have to worry about similarly themed competition. Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z In one show, an oddball family debated whether to sell their dead parents’ home. No Script, No Roles: It’s No Problem for the Actors of ‘Stolen House’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Sources say the character in the sequel's script is described as "an agoraphobic oddball." Stephen Fry to play Mycroft Holmes in "Sherlock 2" 2010-09-27T01:51:00Z The action grows symphonic in scope, but it's a strangely lumpy symphony with an abrupt wrap-up and an oddball disproportion between themes stated and themes explored. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z It sounds like the theme to an oddball TV series, such as Six Feet Under or Jonathan Creek. The Men Who Stare at Goats: blink and you'll mistake it for reality 2010-04-21T12:04:00Z Eventually it dawned on me: I wasn’t just visiting oddball attractions; I was witnessing a region striving to reinvent itself. Germany’s Ruhr valley beckons with converted coal mines and a unique industrial heritage 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Back then, it was just a bunch of oddballs, starting afresh and celebrating their new-found freedom with a wild abandon. Antonio Banderas: Almod?var and me 2011-07-29T21:59:00Z Something so innocuous as a wrong turn or an oddball memory can upend the personality — and isn’t that the real magic of the form? Review | ‘I Hold A Wolf by the Ears’ offers the greatest distillation of Laura van den Berg’s talents to date 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z These actors play members of an oddball Italian-American family in the Greenwich Village of the 1970s. Theater Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z These pats and puffs generate the soundtrack for Forsythe's fascinatingly oddball composition of tics, triggers, loops and slips – part high-concept choreographic mechanism, part low-key slapstick. The Forsythe Company – review 2013-06-19T12:35:07Z It's got far too much oddball fun to be dismissed so easily, but you can see why the squares didn't dig it. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z Some of these oddball moments do work to illustrate our heroine's sense of disorientation. In Hanna, Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett Put a Feminine Twist on the Bourne Formula 2011-04-07T09:20:00Z His jokes can’t translate to the page, but every sentence has something funny in it: An oddball pronunciation, an exaggerated emotional response, a surprising opinion. Best Comedy of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z “I’ve always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family,” Ms. Parton once said in an interview. Dollywood: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Also playing there this weekend is “Trailer War,” a selection of oddball movie trailers compiled by the great Alamo Drafthouse; it screens Friday and Saturday at 11 p.m. Poster sale, holiday fare and more 2012-12-13T22:33:21Z But the album has a certain oddball integrity, and, if nothing else, demonstrated Ms. Fleming’s fearlessness. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The song choice is an endearingly oddball detail. ‘Pol Pot & Associates, LLP’ at Callan Theatre: A wonky, talky whodunit Lessons on residential segregation slip in quietly among oddball portraits of city residents who harbor, hunt or otherwise relate to the creatures. Review: In ‘Rat Film,’ a City of Rodents and Racial Oppression 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The networks may never be prone to experimentation, but they can usually be counted on for one or two oddball or simply puzzling choices. The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z In comedy clubs, with their gaggles of oddballs and cranks, he found friends. Pete Davidson Nuzzles Up to the Prickly Joke 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z You can catch echoes of that metaphysical drama’s cosmic oddball moments here. Review: ‘Maniac’ Is a Hallucinatory, Emotional Dream Machine 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Things start to turn around — at least in Dud’s eyes — when he ends up in front of a shabby fraternal lodge that introduces him to a friendly group of oddballs. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Lodge 49’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The show is stocked with a genial, five-member bluegrass band and a rogues’ gallery of oddball comic performers. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Speaking of originality, there's the character of Pee-wee Herman himself, Paul Reubens' oddball man-child with the nasal voice and the too-tight gray suit who goes on a cross-country quest to find his beloved, stolen bike. 5 favorite Tim Burton movies 2012-05-10T16:16:12Z Plentiful jokes, precision timing, memorable oddballs, kooky situations and beautifully executed physical comedy — “What’s Up, Doc?” has it all and more, including the blissful, counterintuitive pairing of Ryan O’Neal and Streisand. When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z There was no fetishizing of the oddball, no crippling nostalgia, no lack of gravitas, either in that desire or in its result. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z Where in the sprawl could I find the oddballs able to see through the glare and take advantage of the city’s unmatched energy? Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z Another oddball success, “Fat People Skate Well. A Cardboard Cabaret” won a number of awards in France this year, and they were thoroughly deserved. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z "Toy Story 3" is the oddball among this year's best picture nominations: it's the only animated film, the only G-rated film, the only sequel and the only one primarily aimed at children. Oscar countdown: "Toy Story 3" 2011-02-23T19:47:04Z The press association has worked hard in recent years to jettison its reputation for oddball nominations that were interpreted more as efforts to populate its televised banquet with stars than honor the year’s best performances. ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z And this fall, she also has a role in the oddball cannibal flick “Gravy.” Sutton Foster: From ‘Star Search’ to centerstage at the Kennedy Center 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Gethard moves his comedy call-in show, with its panel of oddball friends, now starting its third season, from Fusion to truTV. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘What Would Diplo Do?’ and ‘The Guest Book’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z This novel, based on the life of the celebrity fiction writer, fabulist and professional oddball Jerzy Kosinski, has a light touch but manages to lift heavy subjects. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In all these shows, the offices are all staffed by eccentric oddballs who want to do literally anything other than their day job, yet somehow they almost never get fired. Forking hell! Is The Good Place the ultimate TV show for our times? 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Once the band dissolved, however, it was only Ringo who maintained an interest thanks to a range of oddball turns. Clip joint: the Beatles 2012-10-10T08:41:11Z One of the oddballs that Sarah picks up on her way through the Labyrinth, what Sir Didymus lacks in sense of smell, he makes up for in eccentricity. Clip joint: five of the best creatures in 80s fantasy cinema 2013-07-24T13:35:27Z Herzog's parade of oddball commentators and his own inimitably dry delivery of such coincidences as the close proximity to this cave of albino crocodiles make this, too, a beguiling experience of wonderment. Berlin film festival ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:49Z If this scenario sounds at all oddball to you, please put those feelings aside. Five science fiction novels for people who hate SF 2013-06-28T09:44:47Z And in so many ways, “Glee” is exactly the kind of oddball, underdog show that’s impossible not to root for. Riff: How Football Players Got Trounced by ?Glee? 2011-06-03T12:00:00Z Forget pratfalls and pies in the face, though Beth Henley’s oddball new “Laugh” certainly goes in for both. Classic antics of ‘Laugh’ an uphill climb in Beth Henley’s latest 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z You've got Oliver Platt, known for his ability to pump vim and vigor into other oddball premium cable shows like "Bored to Death" and "Huff." "The Big C": Kooky, unsexy cancer 2010-08-14T23:01:00Z Now the publisher is also promoting it as a cliffhanging beach read about an “exclusive and shadowy world” populated by “obsessive archivists, oddball collectors, forgers and thieves.” Antiques: Antiques Beach Reading (Yep, That?s Right) 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z Other objects are oddball silly, like an old snowshoe or a deflated basketball. Kurimanzutto Expands (Way) North 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Like an admiral on the bridge of a battleship, Mr. Zanchi surveyed from his cramped booth a sea of yachting journals, home decorating magazines and oddball gewgaws stretching before him. Abroad: When in Rome: Newsstands as Mini-Malls 2010-06-04T22:53:00Z This oddball novel’s appearance here, five years after it was first published in Britain, is worth cheering. Reviews: New Books From Anne Roiphe, Nickolas Butler and More 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z James leads a winding tour through nearly every famous American criminal case, cramming in a truckload of barroom speculation, oddball original thinking, and merciless logic. Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “He was an oddball and not forthcoming or gregarious,” he said. Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Marti’s mission as curator, he said, was to redeem works that had been languishing in storage — the “oddball players, minor characters and extras.” Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z Europe in Mr. Akin’s films, whose stories often hinge on unlikely coincidences and plot contrivances, is a teeming potpourri of oddballs and hustlers. | 'Soul Kitchen': In Fatih Akin?s ?Soul Kitchen,? Restaurant Slapstick 2010-08-19T23:12:00Z What emerges is a fuller picture of how the record renaissance of the past 15-odd years is no longer the domain of the older, oddball or affluent; it's a populist unifier. "Record stores changed our lives": New doc "Vinyl Nation" celebrates Record Store Day at home 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Morris shows that these oddball spiritual liberators are not just historical footnotes. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Otherwise her thorniness sits uncomfortably inside a stylized comedy that’s equal parts oddball and striving for the outrageous. Review: In Netflix’s ‘Girlboss,’ a Heroine Who’s a Tough Sell 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z There were no wild cards, no deep cuts, no oddballs—just books that were already best-sellers, pieces of clothing I knew wouldn’t fit me or that I already owned. Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores Are Not Built for People Who Actually Read 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps a clue to such Englishness lies in that camp, oddball hybrid of the enigmatic and the loopy, the mysterious and the facetious. Paul Morley meets morris dancing trio The Belles of London City 2010-04-23T11:37:00Z He was an adult entertainer, a children's entertainer, a satirist, an oddball and a lover of pop music. Frank Sidebottom ... 'He'd have died to be in?the charts' 2010-06-25T23:15:00Z And at that precise moment a posse of models marched through the door, a herd of gazelles wearing jeggings and T-shirts led by Tanga Moreau, the oddball beauty with a drive-thru gap in her smile. Gimlet Eye: A City Gets Its Groove Back 2010-09-16T17:59:00Z On display for three months or more instead of just one month, the new series, renamed "Chicago Works," will debut in November with an installation by oddball Milwaukee painter and filmmaker Scott Reeder. MCA's new identity 2011-06-10T15:44:00Z McCracken’s long-awaited new novel offers a rich family saga, a history of candlepin bowling and a burlesque chronicle of American oddballs. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z His first-person portraits of the heartbroken, heartbreaking and misunderstood, and his political satires, have earned him a loyal fan base, the admiration of his peers and the occasional oddball controversy. Randy Newman cared enough about his new album to help pay for it 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Gotye's massive and oddball pop hit, "Somebody I Used to Know," picked up record of the year. Varied winners at Grammy Awards 2013-02-11T15:32:09Z On the few occasions when the western is successfully resurrected, we get fascinating oddball movies such as Dead Man and Meek's Cutoff. Frances Ha: black-and-white cinema is dead 2013-07-22T05:00:00Z Like her father, she was a bit of an oddball in a community where, as she described it, the goal was survival. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z "Everyone thinks of Tim as the guy whose specialty is wacky stuff with crazy sets and oddball angles and special effects," he said. 'Big Eyes' the latest in Tim Burton's gallery of pop-art portraits 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z But the Internet has magnified those feelings of alienation for the oddballs. A Former Geek Offers Hope 2011-05-25T18:02:31Z Part of this was about an era where, if you were that age, making movies, you were an oddball. JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes' 2011-08-01T19:30:01Z That’s when this oddball clash of cultures takes a delicious and fantastical turn. ‘Better Living Through Plastic Explosives’: a gleefully twisted take on Vancouver, B.C. 2013-01-25T00:50:30Z Mr. Piedmont and Mr. Steele met as writers at “Saturday Night Live,” where they specialized in the more oddball “10-to-1” sketches that close out the show. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The audience loves you for being an oddball. Perspective | I won clown contests as a kid. It didn’t win me friends, but it showed me I could do anything. 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z Hall is luminous, with Snow White coloring, but she's also one of those very special oddball types for whom freckles, a gummy smile and a coltish physical awkwardness are assets. Review: Ben Affleck Goes to Town 2010-09-16T22:10:00Z We’ve always been able to laugh together about the oddball nature of people. Texas Monthly: Lovett and Keen, From ‘Front Porch’ to Texas Concert Partners 2013-05-25T22:28:45Z Misanthropic oddball Lawrence nicely subverts that with this image, which supports his show's title while also giving an indication of the simmering, suppressed anger that drives much of his comedy. Paste masters: the art of the Edinburgh fringe poster 2010-08-26T15:27:00Z Four rotating taps offer unusual beers from regional Czech and Bavarian producers, with several oddball specialties available in bottles, like the Regenator doppelbock from Germany’s obscure J. B. Falter label. Next Stop: In Pilsen, Beer?s Not the Only Thing on Tap 2011-05-27T18:52:25Z These display tables made the place look more like a curiosity shop or an oddball museum — the Queens version of Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence — than someone’s dwelling. A Hoarder’s Tale of Redemption 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Falling into “Lodge 49” is like hanging out at an oddball dive bar that you ignored the instinct to keep walking past. Review: ‘Lodge 49,’ Where Beautiful Losers Join the Club 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z It would be an oddball one-woman show; as more and more puppets are produced from her pockets the audience would have to become the puppeteers. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z “Khumba,” the second feature from the South African animation studio Triggerfish, is a wondrous and slightly deranged story about oddballs embracing their differences. Movie Review: ‘Khumba,’ an Animated Film Set in South Africa 2013-12-06T00:36:18Z And then just the oddball lunacy of the paintings taking over the world, and the fact that it was a big art fraud. 'Big Eyes' and the Pact Between Writers and Painter 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z "Mostly, 'Addams' Just Festers," said the New York Daily News, punning on the name of Uncle Fester, one of the family's oddball members. "The Addams Family" musical disappoints on Broadway 2010-04-09T17:07:00Z It has the promise of a dynamic show, but the oddball texture of the staging is let down by an inconsequential story. Raspberry 2010-04-06T20:30:00Z For years, Mr. Stern was known principally for pushing the limits of taste as the ringmaster of a raunchy circus of pranksters, oddballs and strippers. Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Lynch hopes that the Book-It dramatization preserves the "independent vision of an oddball outcast," and "amusement factor of the mostly invisible border between the U.S. and Canada." 'Border Songs' and more on Seattle stages 2011-09-15T19:25:05Z Tonight's opener is all about oddball Frankie, firmly in the former camp, who transfers to Roundview College for a fresh start after being bullied in her old town. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-01-27T08:00:01Z He tried “Sketch 3,” an 80-second piano reverie he considered “an oddball.” Tim Hecker Helped Popularize Ambient Music. He’s (Sort of) Sorry. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The book is written from the mad-diary-like perspective of Joe, a charmingly oddball Brooklyn hipster who grows dangerously obsessed with a woman he meets at the bookstore where he works. The dark side of Twitter: A digital-age tale of Brooklyn hipsters gone mad 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Lacey has been oddball comedian, actor, painter and sculptor, briccolage inventor of robots and automata, post-hippy shaman, errant guru to travelling bands of new age travellers, and who knows what else. The Bruce Lacey Experience - review 2012-07-06T17:08:31Z This last entirely preposterous detail is one of an initial sprinkling of oddball and leftfield touches that, for the first 10 minutes, delude you into thinking you might be watching something out of the ordinary. Dead Man Down – review 2013-05-03T10:12:34Z Overflowing with subplots and oddball characters, “Virginia” vaguely aspires to be something like Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” but set in and around Virginia Beach. Movie Review: Schizophrenia in Dustin Lance Black?s Film ?Virginia? 2012-05-17T23:03:55Z The seedy motel is inhabited by menacing creeps and oddballs who lurk for no apparent reason. Movie Review: ‘The Bag Man,’ Starring Robert De Niro 2014-02-28T00:34:03Z THE new kid is a bit of an oddball. Music: Drake?s ?Take Care? Goes to Moody Places 2011-11-16T15:30:13Z Phoebe is presented to us as the extreme one, the oddball sidekick, the manic pixie antecedent with a résumé that would read like satire. 25 Years Later, It Turns Out Phoebe Was the Best Friend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z He plays an oddball hustler midway between his characters in Rain Man and Midnight Cowboy. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “Fisk” has a fun and offbeat style, not quite as strange as “Stath Lets Flats” but set in a similarly askew world populated by enchanting oddballs. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Lest the film’s description sound at once saccharine and morbid, rest assured that “Breathing” is neither an oddball triumph of the human spirit nor another artily austere, stacked-deck entry in withheld redemption. Movie Review: ‘Breathing,’ Directed by Karl Markovics 2012-08-30T23:18:16Z But then quirkiness is nothing new for Wilson, an actor with a pronounced affinity for oddball roles and an earnest, spiritual side in an industry more prone to cynicism. For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The left is particularly the province of the solemn and the self-important – at least on the right there are expressive oddballs. No laughing matter: Comedians from Italy to the US are reforming politics 2013-03-04T16:09:27Z The usual oddball assortment of soft and squishy geeks and freaks, the OK dudes shake and quake as Mike resists their charms and fights for their right to be Scarers. Movie Review: ‘Monsters University’ Unfolds Before ‘Monsters Inc.’ 2013-06-20T18:56:08Z “The Consultant” doesn’t have that kind of energy at its center — Waltz, recycling his oddball cultivated-creepy persona for the umpteenth time, is amusing but not much more as the coldblooded, possibly diabolical capitalist. ‘The Consultant’ Review: Silicon Valley Goes to the Devil 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The hour-long movie about a bus trip across the English countryside with the Beatles and a cast of oddball characters had no script and no plot. Beatles romp at latest Woodstock Film Festival 2012-10-10T11:41:17Z With its oddball marriage of boiled sweet colours and transparent plastics, the iMac was certainly eye-catching, and it also sold – two million in the first 12 months. Steve Jobs: iDesigned your life 2011-08-25T13:08:12Z It’s the sort of wild, folksy sound you might expect from Jones, 31, whose roles are largely bonded by their oddball nature, sometimes charming and at other times creepy. Caleb Landry Jones is known for playing weird, kind of creepy characters. His new album is also weird and kind of creepy. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z An obsessive oddball, he occupies “the same rung of the social ladder as beggars.” Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Sylvan Esso’s sparse, synthetic sound is a departure from the duo’s previous outfits, which specialized in oddball Americana. | Sylvan Esso’s Quirky, Caffeinated Synth-Pop 2014-05-12T17:30:10Z What follows is a wild blend of violent chases, narrow escapes, mistaken identities, oddball disguises, deadly betrayals, bumbling slip-ups, and fierce revenge. Jared Hess’s Spiritual Gross-Out Comedy, in “Masterminds” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It combines the intellectual exchange of an academic forum with the oddball bonhomie of a “Star Trek” convention. Meet the super-serious Sasquatch chasers of America’s premier Bigfoot conference 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Since the mid-two-thousands, the band has reconfigured record promotion as a kind of oddball scavenger hunt, embedding unlikely clues in unlikely places, a method that’s been adopted by younger bands like Arcade Fire. Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z While The Buddha of Suburbia is a masterfully comic tale of rise and fall that loves its characters, there's something a lot more sinister about The Black Album, making it the oddball in his output. Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books 2010-12-22T11:17:38Z Linda is his enthusiastic partner and cheerleader, and the kids are distinctive oddballs, each messy in their own way. ‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ Review: A Breezy, Engaging Summer Refreshment 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Much of Ansari's older material was riffs on popular culture, his infatuation with R. Kelly, texting women and goofing on his oddball nephew Harris. Aziz Ansari, smooth talker from 'Parks,' brings stand-up to Seattle 2012-06-20T21:54:05Z “It’s just been a couple oddballs like us who just wanted to share things with our friends.” Green Book: the true story behind the Oscar-buzzed road trip drama 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z We’ve got a fairy-tale-style omniscient narrator who notes the exact years, months and days since certain events; oddball aunts who raised a bookish niece; and police investigations that are more whimsical than gory. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Rather, he built his books in nuggets and epigraphs, oddball observation by peculiar found fact, to portray the mind of the narrator, who was generally an artist in some state of mental distress. David Markson, Postmodern Novelist, Dies at 82 2010-06-08T03:22:00Z This rage, marked by a hostility toward anything poetic or naïve, reaches its full expression in the comments directed at Jose Canseco’s feed, a highly pleasing outpouring of slightly oddball, gnomic pronouncements. Circa Now : Nasty Comments on Twitter 2013-04-26T22:39:53Z There was an endearing, oddball quality to the program he led near the end of May, telescoping between the intimate and the grand. For Riccardo Muti, a Grand Sort-of-Finale in Chicago 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Running through all his shows is an unambiguous moral code – based around friendship, collaboration and principle – to which every character, no matter how oddball, ends up adhering. Forking hell! Is The Good Place the ultimate TV show for our times? 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z For fans, it's an intriguing glimpse into how their process, and their oddball shared imagination, works. The Pajama Men – Edinburgh review 2012-08-08T17:01:22Z The other interviewees largely speak of him with affection, and the movie mostly buys into their assessment of him as an oddball visionary who approached projects with a theater man’s show-must-go-on determination. ‘Spaceship Earth’ Review: A Mini-Planet With Mini-Planet Problems 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Should you fail to do so, be warned that these bits of written detritus may not be safe from posterity, as this engaging oddball of a new musical attests. ‘Found,’ a Musical Based on Literary Detritus 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Every city has its oddball denizens, its dirty, screaming bands, its delicious greasy spoons known to only a select few. Television Review: Finding the Offbeat Off the Beaten Path 2011-06-23T22:31:27Z The couple met in 2012 at a wedding reception in Manhattan when they were both seated at what they described as the “oddballs” table. Mollie Fox, John Young Jr. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z 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 Stunningly shot oddball indie drama following two friends as they apocalypse-proof their muscle car. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-03-09T06:00:09Z Merrill Markoe was instrumental in forging the groundbreaking structure of "Late Night with David Letterman," including creating "Stupid Pet Tricks" and its oddball field segments. Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The works at Artists Space create an unlikely cohort of American oddballs, artists and nonconformists who chafed at — and eventually withdrew from or railed against — the strictures of society. Last Chance: Works by James Benning and Others at Artists Space 2014-02-21T23:09:28Z So something is lost by letting an audience laugh away the scene’s subtle discovery as drunk and oddball “otherness.” Review | A plump ‘Raisin in the Sun’ at Arena 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z He bristled at the fame, the random calls at night, the oddball requests from strangers who thought they owned a piece of him. Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The gift shops overflowed with oddball items you would never find in Orlando, making shopping a delight. What I Discovered by Visiting Every Disney Park 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z They’re easy and comfortable but all too often safely insulated from the rhythm of local life, making those chance meetings and oddball experiences that create great travel memories all too rare. A Fortress in the Clouds, a Guinea Pig in the Pan 2010-07-14T03:00:00Z It was a culmination of all the ways I was never really given any support or encouragement to be me, because I was a bit of an oddball. Talking Shop 2010-05-12T08:16:00Z Hughes, who died in 2009, had a soft spot for oddball pairings of oddball humans, and here that affinity shines through in his joyful, jocular script. The Best Thanksgiving Movies to Stream 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z And for when a gun just won't do, an oddball collection of household items - a shovel, a hammer, a baseball bat and an icepick- show the creative side of some of America's most notorious killers. New Vegas museum highlights mob bosses, tommy guns 2012-02-14T13:01:04Z All, from oddballs to flagrantly self-promoting windbags, are described in an effective, relatable way that is never malicious — more like, affectionately barbed. Dripping Slow and Sweet, Four New Books About Honey and Bees 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Subjects, the same but different, arrived bunched like flowers – an assortment of weddings, six kinds of amusing animal, umpteen dinners sizzling in pans, oddballs of different stripes, people caught in religious observance. Rewind TV: The Men Who Made Us Fat; Britain in a Day; Dead Boss 2012-06-16T23:05:40Z In recent years, Malkovich has taken detours through the world of opera -- or more precisely, oddball hybrids of theater and opera featuring the actor sharing the stage with classical singers. John Malkovich goes eccentric in 'Casanova Variations,' photo exhibit 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z In other words, she is one-dimensional by the standards set by the oddballs and headcases in this show. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: What Kind of Show Is This? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Doyle did the same thing for Stephen Sondheim’s marital musical “Company,” but the instrument-toting characters looked like oddballs late for band camp. Review | This ‘Color Purple’ may have won a Tony, but it’s cut to the bone 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z And so it was that we bid goodbye to our women for another week and headed into the aisles, an oddball quintet in search of snacks. Modern Love: A Life to Live, This Side of the Bars 2010-03-25T22:15:00Z At the Amazon store, there are no wild cards, no deep cuts, no oddballs—just a tiny selection of books that are already best-sellers. Weekly Culture Review: Wonder Woman, Sarah Silverman, and More 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The authors seem to relish the freedom of packing as many oddball visuals into the book as they'd like without the podcast's constraints. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z So what if this oddball foray into insecto-tourism coughs up occasionally empty passages? Books of The Times: The Weird, Wide World of Bugs in Hugh Raffles?s ?Insectopedia? 2010-03-24T23:08:00Z No. 4, the 2015 Polarity from Heart & Hands in the Finger Lakes, was an oddball. Even Bad Jokes Can Make Good Thanksgiving Wines 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z If you are an actor known for playing cameos in oddball comedies and you are not in First Day of Camp, you need a new agent or you are dead. Review: Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Seems Like Old Times 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z As O’Brien finishes his run on late night on June 24, he leaves behind a massive legacy, a comedically ambitious fixture on late night for nearly three decades who influenced a generation of oddball comics. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z It embraces its oddball subjects — con artists, Craigslist obsessives, exhibitionists, even dogs — and the city that, for all its demands, gives them the space to be who they are. How Three Quirky Sitcoms Capture the New York Hustle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z In trying to combine Mr. Kelley’s oddball idealism with elements of a crime procedural and long-arc thriller, he’s set himself quite a challenge. | 'The Firm': ?The Firm? on NBC, With Josh Lucas - Review 2012-01-07T00:39:40Z I like this gallery and suspect that it has quite a few oddball surprises to reveal. Art Review | Independent: An Abundance of Room, an Absence of V.I.P. Gloss 2010-03-04T23:16:00Z The fifth Bennet sister, Mary, is an antisocial oddball, who is pursuing her third online master’s degree. Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Eligible’ Updates Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But like Mr. McDonagh’s early Irish dramas, the play is as much about the strange language and repartee of its oddball characters as it is about plot. Martin McDonagh’s ‘Hangmen,’ a Mordant Stage Homecoming in London 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z But that’s OK, since van den Brink’s film throbs with suspense and lobs oddball scares, like an uncanny scene in which Betriek encounters a possessed kid in an elevator. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The main sleight-of-hand at play in the illusion-themed sequel, “Now You See Me 2,” will be convincing audiences that a single oddball idea — and four bickering, bragging leads — can support a successful franchise. Review: ‘Now You See Me 2’ Illusionists Are Out to Save the World 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Europeans have far more exposure to various bidding systems and, in particular, oddball multicolored two-bids. Bridge: Norway Faces Germany in Dutch Tournament Finals 2014-04-20T21:17:12Z The journal shows that Lil Wayne’s mind during this period was alive, in all of its oddball glory, even if his music didn’t reflect it. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z We also are biological oddballs: upright bipeds with big brains, language, increasingly complex technology and the ability to alter our planetary habitat — and even explore other planets. When the Aliens Arrive, What Will They Look Like? A Zoologist Has Answers 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z “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 As teenage oddballs with a love of punk rock, Andy Kaufman and classic comedy, they pushed each other to perform. Bobcat Goldthwait Has Moved On. Why Can’t We Catch Up? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Wilson — it’s not clear if that’s his first or last name — is a misanthrope with a sentimental streak, a guy whose grouchiness is leavened by oddball touches of Minnesota Nice. Review: ‘Wilson,’ With Woody Harrelson as a Misanthrope 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z In their investigation, the two meet a band of oddball characters, such as a flamboyant gay psychic and an older woman looking for her lost dog. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Below, how to build an oddball executioner in seven easy steps. Making a Murderer, David Fincher Style 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Vile knows he’s got an oddball mind. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z 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 Despite being financed by Disney, this oddball musical was very much an Altman movie, throwing caution and sometimes coherence to the wind. Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z “And he had the lyricism and the power, and a rawness and vulnerability that made his portrayal of the character as an oddball dreamer so affecting.” ‘A Vocal Figure Skater’ Makes His Mark as an Operatic Hamlet 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z As Ms. Finn traces how her five oddballs react to the prospect of life after the fair, the backstage chatter grows more honest, sometimes too honest. Theater Review: ‘The Faire,’ About a Limping Theater Troupe 2014-02-14T21:00:55Z The strange underground world Prokopi inhabits inevitably brings us in contact with some serious oddballs, each of whom is introduced by Williams with the economy and evocative precision of a haiku. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The show featured a family of macabre oddballs who believed they were normal, and was famed for its catchy finger-snapping theme song. Addams Family actor Pugsley dies 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Kingma says the effort remains a "work in progress," attributing the relative absence of oddball choices in the last two years to studios showing them movies in a more timely manner. More sophisticated Golden Globes a growing force in awards season 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Moss is drawn to intelligent oddballs, characters who are deeply moral, ambitious, and willing to be perceived as uptight or difficult in order to get what they want. Elisabeth Moss: 'How I found my inner tough guy' 2013-07-02T17:12:01Z Deliberately underplaying his lines at the “Arrested Development” audition, Mr. Bateman got the role of Michael Bluth, the guy closest to sanity and decency in a family of self-centered oddballs. Arts & Leisure: The Team Player Who Blends Into the Comedy 2011-06-30T15:23:03Z Julià presents its "stars", including a waiter who performs traditional dance with oddball hip-hop inflections and a bored blonde waitress in Basque costume, with the big movie glamour that Scorcese brings to small-time hoods. Artist of the week special: Asier Mendizabal, Alejandro Vidal, Adri? Juli? 2011-03-30T16:24:00Z Thank the TV gods: The show is still its oddball, beautiful self. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘High Maintenance’ and ‘Fleabag’ 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Season 2 of this oddball political dramedy is finally here, almost two years after the first season was released. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z McCollum’s version of the city is, at best, a community of disconsolate oddballs. Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The writers decided to focus on the Addams as an oddball but close-knit family, and went through several ideas — including doing "the Woody Allen version." From cartoon frame to 5th Avenue Stage: 'The Addams Family' (snap, snap!) 2012-10-17T21:51:13Z Even in an age of oddball TV experiments, there really is no place like “At Home.” Review: The Haywire Hospitality of ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z In general, there are two types of songs on “Art Angels”: the oddball and the slightly less oddball. Grimes wages battle with herself on the wild and wonderful ‘Art Angels’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Primarily made of either latex or silicone, Meier’s “Hyperflesh” line of masks are most frequently inspired by topical, pop culture figures — “characters,” he says, “oddballs and people who might not be the most perfect.” This man makes terrifyingly realistic Donald Trump masks 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Peopled with resilient oddballs mangled by life, “Abundance” had its premiere Off Broadway in 1990, at the end of a decade that started with Ms. Henley’s Pulitzer Prize for “Crimes of the Heart.” Review: In ‘Abundance,’ by Beth Henley, Mail-Order Brides Find Husbands and Lice 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Set in a neurological ward of a Copenhagen hospital, Kingdom featured oddball characters in unlikely situations dealing with the supernatural phenomena that plagued the hospital. Imported gems 2010-04-20T12:59:00Z Teddy is a 20-something oddball who lives at home with his infirm mother and nosy uncle in rural France. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The book’s grifters, oddballs, protagonists and Tom Clancy-esque tech backdrop are capably and invitingly handled by the author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short.” ‘Flash Boys’: skimming fortunes on a rigged Wall Street 2014-04-04T20:58:57Z Not every writer is a grab-bag of neuroses, a being riddled with phobias, self-doubt, antisocial impulses and oddball obsessions — but let’s just say that personalities of that sort are overrepresented in the literary profession. A neurotic writer aboard the USS George H.W. Bush 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z This short series of small gigs is a reminder that La Roux, whose current on-stage configuration is Jackson and four backing musicians, are still with us and watchably oddball. La Roux – review 2013-03-29T17:06:00Z She decided to explore that feral energy during a visit to Koneko, a cat cafe on the Lower East Side, an oddball setting for an interview, as she noted wryly. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Which means she is an oddball in school and elsewhere. A Beautiful Mind 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z This first novel is as oddball and rambunctious as it sounds. New Books: ?Irma Voth,? ?Boxer, Beetle,? ?Cabin,? ?Headhunters? 2011-09-14T22:31:31Z At its best, the book provides an occasion for Gilbert to unleash her fresh, oddball sensibility on an international stage. Review: ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ by Elizabeth Gilbert 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Here are all the hallmarks of old Wayne: concise construction, tricky assonance, oddball imagery, black humor. Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne Each Sidestep the Traditional Album Cycle 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The backdrop would be an idyllic Connecticut town full of oddballs and eccentrics, and the tone would be a blend of character-driven comedy and drama, all set to a screwball pace. Why ‘Gilmore Girls’ Endures 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Outside of the oddball interpolations of star announcers in “The Big Short,” there’s hardly a giggle or a guffaw in any of the Best Picture nominees. The Baffling 2016 Oscar Nominees 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “Couple of oddballs,” he said, with a steelworker shake of the head. Love’s Road Home 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z That’s not the lead-up to some oddball joke — it’s what happened this month in this town near the Colorado state line. Big sky and small-town log cabins await travelers in rural Kansas 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Like other members of Stern’s Wack Pack of oddball callers and in-studio guests, Mr. Lynch landed several TV roles over the years. Eric Lynch, a member of Howard Stern’s ‘Wack Pack’ who called in with tirades, dies On first exposure the collision of oddball aspiration with old-fashioned showbusiness determination to entertain is dynamite, but it reveals its richness over time. Albums of 2010, No 1: Janelle Mon?e - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) 2010-12-17T00:05:02Z Vector Families is a group of peers from the Upper Midwest, including Anthony Cox on electric bass, Brandon Wozniak on tenor saxophone and Dean Granros, a visionary oddball, on electric guitar. At NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon, New Faces Make Their Mark at Grooving Places 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Over the last couple of years, this Atlanta rapper has been a certified oddball, with a scraped-up voice that’s forever imbalanced. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z “Here and in the earlier picture it’s perhaps easy to apprehend Dumont’s approach with a ‘What’s this oddball up to now?’ smirk,” Glenn Kenny wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Joan of Arc’ and ‘Princess Mononoke’ 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It was an idea that found its purest comic expression in the new millennium, not in mainstream Hollywood comedies but in the oddball annals of late night cable television. Celebrating a decade of disgust with Tim and Eric 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z It has some nicely pitched documentaries – I've been enjoying Mark Hodkinson's oddball northern reports – and there's its drama, but otherwise the daytime schedule is dominated by news. Is Radio 4 just too gloomy? 2013-01-19T18:01:01Z In a way, that incongruous casting choice may be as much a tribute to Mr. Philbin as it is an effort to mimic the oddball chemistry of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. The TV Watch: Regis Philbin Says Goodbye on ?Live!? 2011-11-18T22:00:56Z The movement grows more eccentric: arm-swinging walks in place, some oddball elbow wiggles. Love, death yield mild results from Mark Morris Dance Group 2014-02-15T17:36:00Z There was a mismatch between her pleas of innocence and her cold, oddball demeanor. Who’s Lying to Us and Who’s Telling the Truth? Malcolm Gladwell Has Some Ideas 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z "He wasn't represented by galleries. He just plugged away and did his thing. He was the oddball outsider," he says. Artist Archibald J. Motley Jr.'s Jazz Age imagery on display at LACMA 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z An utterly wacky graphic novel written entirely in palindromes — words or phrases that read the same forward and backward — it is packed with oddball characters, startling dialogue and surprising settings. Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z In the absence of a similar involving element here, it's unlikely viewers will show the love this time around, especially with an oddball title that does doesn't exactly sell the hard-hitting goods. 2010-01-29T07:12:00Z “Really,” he said in a video interview promoting the exhibition, “I feel like I’m an outsider. I’m really an oddball guy who managed to, like a jackal, eat whatever the pigs leave behind.” Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z But the narrative is driven by Skeeter’s journey from oddball college graduate to rebellious neo-liberal muckraker, action that happens in the book but is given more prominence in the stripped-down screenplay structure. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z Though on recent trips I’ve made it a modest goal to seek out some of Tucson’s more oddball Modernist structures, I tend to lodge at one of its gentler traditional ones. In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Try for contrasting flavors, shapes and colors, with at least one oddball, such as husk cherry. Forget flowers this year. Try decorating your holiday table with fruit. 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Her Commissaire Adamsberg series begins with "The Chalk Circle Man"; it's a delightfully oddball concoction, as much psychological puzzle as crime thriller. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z Mr. Rockwell’s oddball brand was an ideal fit for “S.N.L.,” even though a fine might be coming the show’s way. ‘Saturday Night Live,’ With Help From Old Friends, Skewers ‘Morning Joe’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z With Michael Keaton starring as a rumpled former star attempting a comeback in theater, the black comedy promises an oddball showcase. In Venice, Kicking Off the Fall Movie Festival Season 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z And if you yield to its oddball rhythms, the movie’s questioning innocence and arc toward hope might just persuade you to tag along. ‘I’ve Got Issues’ Review: Seeking a Point, Starting to Break 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z With her thrift-shop style and cheerful demeanor, at first it seems the story might drift along the lines of oddball girl gets gallant guy and they live happily ever after. Review | Katherine Heiny’s ‘Early Morning Riser’ may be the funniest novel of the year 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z It’s a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Or will his oddball behavior take a more devious turn? Why is BJ always drinking milk on "The Righteous Gemstones"? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z This oddball charmer radiates warmth and wit from spooky start to surprisingly sob-worthy conclusion. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z He is smooth as he becomes oddball co-workers and demanding shoppers. Review | A comic ‘Santaland’ needs frost 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z And the prize for most surreal podcast of the year goes to … Neutral Milk Hotel’s Julian Koster and his oddball offering set in a variety show at the top of the Eiffel Tower. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “New York City was the site of my great success,” he wrote in “Based on a True Story,” his delightfully oddball quasi memoir with an unreliable narrator. Norm Macdonald, Comic Nonpareil. (That’s a Word He Might Use.) 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But it also matches the sensibility of the show’s creator, Michael Schur, whose “Parks and Recreation” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” are each about oddball co-workers who bring humanity to institutions. ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘The Good Place’ Took Us to Hell and Back 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z I definitely have an affinity to playing oddballs, people who are nonconformists. Rainn Wilson and Friends band together to support Mona Foundation 2010-10-20T23:54:00Z They travel through what feels very much like a half-civilized stretch of frontier, encountering a motley collection of bandits, farmers, stagecoach drivers and talkative oddballs. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z These oddball science fiction flops are original in sometimes perversely derivative ways. Follywood: how Valerian earns its place among film's strangest big budget flops 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But she sees no contradiction in her oddball trajectory. Arts & Leisure Preview: Katy Perry, Pop Cartoon Sprung From the Playbook 2010-08-19T17:54:00Z We were the outcasts, the oddballs, the bohemians. The Show’s Delayed, but They’re Still Keeping ‘Company’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z "A Child's First Book of Trump" is perhaps the most child-friendly of the oddball books that have come out in recent months about the candidate. 'A Child's First Book of Trump': a Donald Trump primer by Michael Ian Black 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z "Inherent Vice" references and evokes plenty while being its own oddball, abstract, inscrutable thing. NYFF: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The director notes that they present very different parts of the city - you won't read about drag queens and serial killers in a Tyler novel - but both have an affinity for outcasts and oddballs. Anne Tyler, still making it up 2012-04-03T12:39:08Z Perhaps this fueled his intense sympathy for loners, oddballs and outcasts. Hamburg Ballet’s ‘Little Mermaid’ — adrift in a sea of despair 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Its single installation, Indigenous Parts, is a maze of plinths on which witty oddball combos of objects make allusions to figures as far-flung as Johnny Depp and Fats Domino, sparking dizzying associations of ideas. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z This oddball monologue moves from somber to superficial as quickly as it does from high to lowbrow. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z In one sequence, he imitates the oddballs of his boyhood. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The result is a documentary that makes you root for this wonderful assortment of oddballs despite recognizing how amazingly terrible they are. Turning Sports Statistics Into Riveting Cinema 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Among the oddball surprises there is a pint-size chapel that doubles as a yoga studio. The ‘other’ San Juan islanders go their own way 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The campers, who paid up to $599, were a self-selecting group of exhibitionists and oddballs for whom Mr. Waters’s movies were a beacon of belonging. Camping With John Waters and His Band of ‘Filthy Freaks’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z You need something else to bind you to them, whether it’s mystery, charisma, an oddball personality or, well, just the filmmaking. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Though sometimes self-consciously precious, “Frances Ha” feels true to a certain time in life; it’s an oddball charmer. SIFF week 1: 10 movies to see 2013-05-16T17:52:44Z If you were a fan of “Teddy,” that other oddball French drama about a young werewolf, you’ll fall for this film’s charms. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Bagnall’s baffling story about a trio of oddball outsiders is stricken with a galloping case of romantic whimsy and falls short of its serio-comic aspirations. Review: ‘Funny Bunny,’ About a Trio of Outsiders 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Date Lab is, admittedly, an oddball, especially now that online dating has become so dominant. What I learned as Date Lab’s longest-serving matchmaker 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z And for when a gun just won't do, an oddball collection of household items - a shovel, a hammer, a baseball bat and an icepick - show the creative side of some of America's most notorious killers. New Vegas museum highlights mob bosses, tommy guns 2012-02-14T12:31:12Z Actually, it’s just a very traditional workplace comedy with a bunch of oddballs forced together. Superstore: Walmart-inspired sitcom isn’t such a bad deal 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Noel Fielding brings his energetic oddball surrealism to the Canadian audience. Tonight's TV highlights: Britain's Next Big Thing 2011-04-12T07:00:04Z First staged in 1936, You Can't Take It With You details the comic mishaps that ensue when an impending marriage brings the bride-to-be's family of oddballs together with her groom's strait-laced relatives. James Earl Jones returns to Broadway 2014-04-25T08:25:08Z Ghosts, animals and an assortment of oddballs accompany him on a trek that’s sometimes comical and sometimes melancholy, but never less than clever. Theater Review: ‘The Old Man and the Old Moon’ at the Gym at Judson 2012-10-09T22:59:41Z If there’s one thing we can predict about the Grammys, it’s that the oddball act might actually win. Will Grammy voters take the ‘Old Town Road’ on Sunday? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Then the oddball comic-book films these guys love, like the new , will sell more tickets and maybe reign as No. 1 at the box office. Box Office Weekend: An Old Dragon Rises to Nick Kick-Ass 2010-04-18T23:00:00Z The outlaws and oddballs of “Yonder Stands Your Orphan,” in thrall to a sinister character named Man Mortimer, earn the author’s pity. Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z A native of Midland, Mich., she was the artistic oddball in her family. Katherine Heiny’s Road to ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Leavened with flashes of oddball humor, his works succeed in drawing in the listener — not as consumer or worshipful celebrant, but in a spirit of easygoing camaraderie. Reviews: Chelsea Music Festival, Gregg Kallor and St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z We end the year still thinking about the searing performances, challenging stagecraft and oddball experiments that make theater anything but a safe space. Memorable Theater of 2016: Twining Twins, Bathroom Sex and Cod Kisses 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z By the normal rules of Hollywood, an oddball character actor such Stanfield would be relegated to a “kooky best friend” role, but in Riley’s universe he’s the lead. Sorry to Bother You: why Boots Riley’s surreal race allegory is this year’s Get Out 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z 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 Leichter has managed to blend the oddball and the existential into a tale of millennial woe that’s both dreadful and hilarious at once. Review | ‘Temporary’ puts a whole new spin on millennial woe 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Green seems determined to push the gig into event status through sheer oddball antics alone, embarking on a rambling critique of the local museums and crowdsurfing unbidden. Adam Green and Binki Shapiro – review 2013-04-15T17:13:24Z Featuring the feminine wiles of the aforementioned Minaj, “Make Me Proud” is one of the few instances where the oddball Barbie’s bizarre inflections or controversial rhymes don’t overwhelm the track. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z Whether audiences turn out or not, we haven’t seen the last oddball puppet film. Made of Blue Felt and Working Blue, Too: Dirty Puppets on the Big Screen 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In the last two years, Ms. Gevinson has morphed from punky oddball into a winsome beauty with girlish blond bangs, a look she modeled partly on Laura Palmer, the murder victim from “Twin Peaks.” Tavi Gevinson: The Oracle of Girl World 2012-07-27T21:24:36Z Given that the handsome, the charismatic and the well-connected already enjoy so many other advantages in life, it seems only fair that this perk should devolve to the world’s oddballs. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z The extroverts are on the dancefloor, the oddballs are in the kitchen and all manner of surprising couplings are taking place in the room where the coats are stored. Pop music is in a sickly state – but could 2013 bring a great revival? 2013-01-01T07:00:42Z The trousseau gris is an oddball wine, and there’s the charm. Four natural wines to electrify your taste buds, starting at $15 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z 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 You feel their animating spirit in his own projects, populated as they are by oddballs and outsiders. Steve Buscemi: ‘I feel I haven’t fulfilled my true potential' 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z I have a lot of oddball books on my shelves, many of them presents from my brother, Harry, including a book of candy recipes written by the comedian ZaSu Pitts. Elizabeth McCracken: By the Book 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The oddball reputation is all misconception, Noonan and Jason Leigh tell me. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z One book that really does appear to deliver on the oddball promise of its title is Joel Silverman's What Color Is Your Dog?. Genghis Khan workplace manual dominates oddest book title shortlist 2011-02-21T16:16:54Z As Balthazar, Mr. Cage, having worked with the director, Jon Turteltaub, on the popular “National Treasure” series, refines the oddball intensity he brought to those pictures and mixes in new flavors of wackiness. | 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice': Nicolas Cage Teaches a Dweeb He?s Magic 2010-07-13T21:29:00Z In other words, I modelled my characters on the two dominant cultural constructions of old age: the doddering, depressed pensioner and the ageless-in-spirit, quirky oddball. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In “Life of the Party,” Ms. McCarthy gets a makeover; in “Ocean’s 8,” the female oddballs slip into gowns to strut down the steps of the Met. The Trouble With Hollywood’s Gender Flips 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The two have concocted a predictable tale of culture clashes between the oddball Addams crew and the square, straight-laced Ohio family whose son wants to marry almost grown-up Wednesday. 'The Addams Family' mines macabre musical comedy 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z It's too serious to be a parody, and oddball enough to qualify as original. Pitchfork Music Festival day one 2013-07-19T23:27:00Z But both were oddballs who took refuge in detective novels, and they quickly bonded over their mutual love of Sherlock Holmes and the Rover Boys, spending long afternoons reading mysteries in their treehouse sanctuary. Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The book boasts notably above-average characterizations: the oddballs, the canny English cop, the meticulous French inspector — they're all lively and well-rounded. New in crime fiction: Benjamin Black and Jacqueline Winspear 2010-04-07T23:22:00Z Craig Wright’s play is set at a high school reunion, and the Hub production seems to teem with oddball erstwhile classmates. Review | Hub Theatre’s ‘The Pavilion’ revisits the past 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The diminishment of the middle class is the great subject of this oddball series, a melancholy hour-long comedy that tries to be philosophical about feeling gloomy. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Strange, then, that just when the mean-spirited, oddball humor of "Glee" is firing on all pistons, the dramatic dialogue remains utterly tone-deaf. "Glee" could be great -- if it weren't so awful 2010-10-09T23:01:00Z “Lily, thank you,” McKinnon said, “You turned playing lovable oddballs into a viable career option.” Kennedy Center rocks the honors roll to salute Sting, Green, Hanks, Tomlin, McBride The performer hits the sweet spot several times in his oddball solo show “The Object Lesson,” running at Studio Theatre as a kind of deadpan clown piece amid stacks and stacks of cardboard boxes. Clowning around with yesterday’s junk in ‘The Object Lesson’ 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Preak: An oddball who goes to a racetrack to enjoy the infield mud. Style Invitational Week 1350: Find inspo in new dictionary words 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z This explains why Callaghan's new play has some fun but oddball theatrical gestures to keep it aloft and spastic. Sheila Callaghan plays with gender identity in 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z In Paris, other oddballs wheel by, lubricated by wine and palaver: a private detective, a medium who can sense when people are about to die, an American dame desperate for Frances’s friendship. The Stealth Absurdism of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The quartet’s exhilarating brand of emo, primarily from their stellar album “I Became Birds,” blends the fiery rage of hardcore with the oddball existentialism of indie recluses Neutral Milk Hotel. Three emo bands fight the alienation of the online world by rocking out IRL 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z It's not a stretch to say that Dostoevsky, though a hundred years Vonnegut's senior, influenced the oddball writer from Indiana. Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut! 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z This happens a lot, because Dinner Date does a nice sideline in low-key oddballs. Is Dinner Date perfect teatime telly? 2011-07-21T12:06:31Z It’s a book about oddballs and joy-hogs and the especially drunken and/or irascible, and it may be the best yet. A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z I felt elated, but also a bit like an oddball. I was determined to visit all 50 states. I soon discovered I wasn’t alone. 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Founders of great companies tend to be oddball outsiders; of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs while at school. From one who should know 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A beekeeper recounts his experience moving from novice to master, providing ample advice and presenting the eccentrics, oddballs and, as our reviewer, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, put it, “flagrantly self-promoting windbags” he encounters along the way. New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Mostly though, it is satisfying to hear the snowy-haired statesman of art rock find an equally creative oddball to spar with. Cabin Pressure; In Concert: a week in radio 2013-01-10T18:00:01Z I am fascinated by the oddball genius David Sedaris, who is fearless and unique. What Moves Nina Stibbe Most in a Book? ‘Dogs’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Mason Bates’s irresistibly oddball collection of four bagatelles layers electronics and percussive accents on top of a crisp, angular score. Classical Playlist: Conrad Tao, 'Scrapyard Exotica' and More 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z But Mr. Linderman also researches and tells the stories behind the items, disclosing an underground history of American popular culture one oddball tale at a time. Art: Jim Linderman Collects It All, Vintage Sleaze to Baptism Photos 2012-02-12T15:28:58Z But as I watch Jazmin laugh uproariously at a silly joke, it strikes me that even without the foreign influence, she would have been an oddball. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Our modern tech titans also come off as maladjusted oddballs on screen, from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. Greed is ... good? Why Hollywood can't make its mind up about billionaires 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Barney Miller, which was set in a New York City police station populated by oddballs and eccentrics. Veteran character actor Steve Landesberg dies 2010-12-21T05:46:04Z But it was a distinctly Chicano brand of Dada, by way of David Bowie and Frank Zappa, drag and Pachuco culture, telenovelas and oddball UHF television stations, and New Wave and silent movies. Works by Asco at the Los Angeles Museum 2011-08-27T04:10:06Z Books for younger readers are displayed alongside the large storefront windows, which are opposite a mural of the Doom Patrol, oddball heroes who include a sentient street named Danny. In New York, Every Borough Is a Comic Book Destination 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z There’s the sun-drenched time-lapse photography, they “Hey, let’s shoot from…over there!” approach to camera placement and oddball angles, and those breathlessly baiting cold opens. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z And that motif fits cozily with the obvious theme of the power the outsider, the oddball and the stray possess if they only realize it’s there. ‘Extraordinary’ Review: The Power of Powerlessness 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Hannon doesn't worry about labels; he's happy with his position as an "oddball" of the music scene. Neil Hannon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z “They don’t believe it — that some oddball Savitsky put it together, and then a new group of oddballs are preserving the collection,” she said. ?Decadent? Russian Art, Still Under the Boot?s Shadow 2011-03-07T23:09:00Z Gucci’s mystique, skill, omnipresence and oddball instincts — in 2011, he had an ice cream cone tattooed on his right cheek — all came together to make him something like a folk hero. Gucci Mane, Buff, Sober, Out of the Pen and Ready to Flow 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z “I want to understand the world from their point of view, rather than just dismiss them as people who are oddballs,” he said. In ‘Landscapers,’ True Crime Meets Hollywood Fantasy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Misty and Crystal gab about how it wasn’t all that bad, and Crystal — that oddball — confesses it wasn’t the first time she had eaten a person. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Hunger Games 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Retired teacher Christopher Jefferies was portrayed in the press as an oddball, his photographs published as if they were evidence against him, in a murder case in which he was proved completely innocent. Jimmy Savile was hiding in the light 2012-10-04T16:21:10Z She is also, like her latest character, an oddball. Why Kate McKinnon will be the breakout star of ‘Ghostbusters’ — and the election 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z In a career filled with oddball roles, the actor said, "it was refreshing just to get into the skin of Charles Foster." Northwest native Kyle MacLachlan is back on the big screen in 'Mao's Last Dancer' 2010-08-11T22:56:00Z Can two oddball kids prop up the town? KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Lifters’ 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z At the same time, “GLOW” becomes an insightful story about making art from trash, as an oddball alliance forms between Ruth and Sam. Review: In Netflix’s ‘GLOW,’ Empowerment Comes Through Power Slams 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Brawny infrastructure and an oddball assortment of public institutions add an urban edge. Randalls Island Paths for Urban Biking 2012-10-12T05:25:30Z How did the oddball character David S. Pumpkins materialize? Bobby Moynihan opens up about David S. Pumpkins, Kate McKinnon’s “Hallelujah” and “SNL” after the election: “I think it’s both a scary and empowering time” 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z From there it pulsates with such an oddball sweetness that every new episode invites the unsuspecting viewer further into its moth-eaten gothic shenanigans. Smart Watch: "What We Do In the Shadows" is a comedy with bite 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z And part of Keaton’s strength, despite his slight build, was his ability to play a dark, kinetic oddball. Perspective | Why Robert Pattinson — yes, the former vampire — is a promising pick to play Batman 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z As well as sharing some of the same artists and oddball inventors and obsessives, both exhibitions focus on personal cosmologies, and the extreme strategies people undertake to hold themselves together. Far-out show celebrates world of outsiders 2013-06-10T17:26:04Z An outlandish, pointedly allegorical conceit is inhabited not by symbolic figures but by terrestrial oddballs. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z How would we know that Lawrence and Pratt really are all they’re cracked up to be if there were no oddballs like Sheen against whom to compare them? Michael Sheen, Passengers and why Hollywood's hottest leads need a quirky Brit 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z That’s also why I find myself wishing for stranger shows, and imaging oddball settings. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Greenleaf’ and ‘Thirteen’ 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z And Mr. Gorey’s work, in turn, has imprinted itself on the consciousness of generations of oddballs and bookworms, who have found in his offbeat world a measure of existential solace. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The show, which is fueled by the refreshingly flawed characters' lies and deceptions, has a bit of a "Friends" vibe with a tight-knit group of six pals, with a few more oddballs orbiting. Comfort TV: 9 comedies to binge as an escape from our nation's madness 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z It’s a family attic of oddball art, historical installations, satirical drawings and cartoons. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z He satirizes certain kinds of hack comedy but finds an oddball spirit all its own. Stand-Ups Get Experimental in Five Adventurous New Specials 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Dolemite was his rhyming alter ego, sometimes called the godfather of rap, who specialized in kung fu and oddball put-downs. Eddie Murphy Is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Women in Marvel was a low-key end to my first Comic-Con, but the past four days had already thrown up a healthy share of oddball highlights. Comic-Con 2010: My favourite bits 2010-07-26T14:23:00Z In true Gen Z fashion, Dapperton found a ready online audience for his idiosyncrasies — including his bleached bowl cut and oddball song titles, like “I’m Just Snacking” and “Prune, You Talk Funny.” 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The redress sought is acknowledgment that these oddballs are part of the solar system, part of "a whole new tribe of worlds." 'The Case for Pluto': a plea for respect for the 'weird uncle' of the solar system 2010-03-23T21:12:00Z There was an unexpected oddball sitting in the audience early in the evening, and his name was Teddy Perkins. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2018 Emmys 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Like the elusive, oddball actor, Stipe gives the impression of existing entirely inside his own self-contained universe. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z Instead, it’s Mr. Coyne who runs away with his scenes, finding the fervent oddball in a familiar type. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Brenda’ 2013-08-21T22:06:18Z Jonathan’s love of offbeat and oddball culture is what earned him the title “American cinema’s king of amusing artifacts.” Jonathan Demme: The mentor, the maestro, the model 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Pitbull is spraying himself with champagne, Calvin Harris hogs the stereo, Britney wanders around looking sad and lost, Jessie J is everywhere, and all the oddballs have gone home because nobody was talking to them. Pop music is in a sickly state – but could 2013 bring a great revival? 2013-01-01T07:00:42Z Hanks as the oddball David Pumpkins in a haunted house worked for fans of absurdity and deliberate nonsensicalness. SNL: Hanks makes American dads great again as Baldwin’s Trump tics on 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z On a conventional set of scales "Lost River" is decidedly light, while on another it is more than worth its weight in the oddball Americana of old TVs, junker cars, copper piping and paper mache. 'Lost River': Ryan Gosling's evocative, messy feature filmmaking debut 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Even though the sheer oddball novelty factor of such a stunt usually brings a larger audience than usual, they tend to all be creative duds, full of floundering tone and superfluous characters. How to Get Away with Scandal and the problem with crossover TV episodes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s the sort of oddball, breezy read that’s perfect for a long flight or train trip. ‘The One-Cent Magenta’ is a brisk tale of ‘the most valuable stamp in the world’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The gravity of the ugly passions at work in the relationships in “Colossal” doesn’t prevent Vigalondo from delighting in the oddball byways of the utterly unrealistic monster fantasy that arises from it. “Colossal”: A Monster Movie Hiding Ugly Romantic Passions 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z I also think there's a part of it here you have this group of people, oddballs mostly, a dysfunctional family. "Your worst nightmare is to lose your child": Amy Ryan on her new Netflix film "Lost Girls" 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The scale of the musical is relatively intimate, and its oddball style has a novelty quality that can seem slight, particularly in the beginning. 'Amélie's' magical bread crumbs lead to storybook ending in musical's Berkeley premiere 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z While de Wilde’s pictures have a lo-fi feel, they tend to avoid two of the more pronounced signatures of music portraiture: cool detachment or oddball energy. T Magazine: The Many Mutations of Beck 2011-12-05T19:07:03Z We spend a lot of time either going to oddball museums, looking around small towns, shopping in pharmacies and grocery stores that are local, really getting a taste of the area. ‘Roadfood’: Michael Stern reflects on more than 30 years of American eats Jewel tones and childlike drawings add to the joy quotient in “The Okay Book,” Todd Parr’s relentlessly affirmative, warmly oddball book. Illustrated Books to Help Children Embrace Their Differences 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z These songs aren’t much more than melodic rants, but that’s enough for Mr. Nash, who’s never been a forceful singer, but whose talent for cramming oddball twists into R&B remains unparalleled. Albums From Terius Nash, George Strait, Cymbals Eat Guitars 2011-09-05T22:44:58Z It was the kind of oddball concept that Mr. Letterman pioneered in the middle of the 1980s, when his show was required viewing for the cool, young and caffeinated. How David Letterman’s Mother Endeared Him to Viewers 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Given Ligeti’s stature in the pantheon of the 20th century’s classical oddballs, the curiosity value of the piece and the tardiness of occasion, Mr. Gilbert could claim bragging rights just for playing the music. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z He’s on the lookout for these oddball things. Art: Jim Linderman Collects It All, Vintage Sleaze to Baptism Photos 2012-02-12T15:28:58Z When your character is a selfish, unformed person—but also a bruised, struggling oddball whose failures are human—that’s one thing. Goodbye “Girls”: A Review of a Fittingly Imperfect Finale 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z But once I learned how to read Finnish, I never stopped, becoming both an oddball in our household and a frequent sight at the small school library. Read Your Way Through Helsinki 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s a groundbreaking, wonderful oddball among the architectural monuments in this city. Critic's Notebook: A Vision to Avoid Demolition for ’70s Pioneer 2012-10-17T19:46:04Z Meanwhile, Daz asks his girlfriend's oddball housemate for help in choosing an engagement ring. TV highlights 15/02/2013 2013-02-15T07:00:35Z Ween runs through psychedelia, prog, R&B, dinosaur rock, country and calypso with arch humor and oddball eclecticism that contrast its serious musicianship. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z And the absurdity of the story lines, a general knowingness to the characters and oddball figures like the eternally freaked-out Garfield parody Bill the Cat, kept it from becoming cutesy. Bewildered in “Bloom County”: How its long hiatus transformed the still-beloved comic 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z A Healing House A tinkerer’s ode to a tinkerer, and a romantic’s tribute to a romantic, Brent Green’s “Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then” radiates an oddball homemade charm. | 'Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then': A Healing House 2010-05-07T01:52:00Z In "NY Med," a heart transplant fails because the organ is damaged during transit, and a surgeon treats an oddball patient who eats metal. 'NY Med': Laughter, tears, Dr. Oz and more in TV documentary 2012-07-13T19:27:05Z Watching this joyous physicality, we understand how these oddball characters find fulfillment and catharsis in rockin’ out on nonexistent frets and strings. Review | In ‘Airness,’ the axes are invisible but the play is loud 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s a classically oddball New York story, and it doesn’t sound remotely out of place. Critic’s Notebook: Ratking’s EP ‘Wiki93’ Is Thoroughly New York 2012-11-06T22:30:05Z Anyone familiar with life in an office will recognize Gloria as that anxious oddball whom no one takes seriously, who by virtue of an off-putting manner ends up being treated rather callously. Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Despite these oddball interludes, Oh charmed her way out of total disaster quite often. Sandra Oh saved the Golden Globes: The good, bad and ugly of the 2019 awards 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Quite the opposite, in fact: the gags have been sharper, the characterisation stronger and the few missteps of the first series - Howard's shift from singular oddball to cliched geek, for example - have been corrected. Catch-up TV guide: from American Horror Story: Asylum to Limmy's Show 2012-11-24T00:05:27Z Credit as well the film's nimble star, Matt LeBlanc, for barreling through this oddball exercise with such enjoyable conviction. 'Lovesick' script and star give romantic comedy a boost 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z That handicap became, perhaps, the actor's major asset and physical trademark as the star of "Columbo" because it only enhanced the detective's image as a disheveled and oddball crime sleuth. "Columbo" actor Peter Falk dead at 83 2011-06-24T18:42:21Z There's also a chance to enjoy some leftfield approaches to laugh-making, including a new experimental act from Robin Ince and Josie Long, plus an infectious blend of jazz and oddball comedy from The Horne Section. This week's new comedy 2012-07-06T23:05:25Z That’s pretty much the plot, but the director Bob Clark and the writer Jean Shepherd somehow created an oddball, timeless Christmas movie that manages to be both darkly comic and sweet. Can We Talk About the Mom in ‘A Christmas Story’? 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z At Birmingham's Glee Club, Charlie Baker – Devon's answer to Frank Sinatra – and oddball rising star Josh Widdecombe will be seeing in the new year. This week's new comedy 2010-12-18T00:08:32Z Ben kindly viewed this oddball behavior as “stress.” The Bachelor Watch: And The Blondes Played On 2012-01-10T14:30:01Z What was left were increasingly oddball flights — 31-hour treks on airlines we’d never heard of — and a smattering of very expensive ones. The Tickets Home Were $5,000. They Paid It. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Does that make him an oddball in Hollywood? Hollywood’s Most Decent Fella on Harvey, Trump and History 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Some of the campers and fringe oddballs are shown to have preternatural intelligence, sensitivity, or abilities. The “Wet Hot American Summer” Prequel 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Surface-level tribute to the thinner genre forefathers works all right in the case of oddball indies gunning for cult glory, but Avery was working on a different scale. War is hell: Overlord and the history of battle-set horror movies 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z This outcome might be attributable to the random foibles of a bunch of oddballs or the perverted mores of a uniquely benighted class. Is Archipelago a class act or an empty gesture? 2011-03-14T12:05:29Z “We’ve gone from being kind of the oddball guys over there in the corner to being on equal footing and being equally important as a major league sports franchise,” he says. Inside Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena’s ambitious plans to become a ‘top 10 music venue’ 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Mann wins her over with wit and his oddball personality. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Many of Yankovic’s songs feature this style of oddball narrative; he is not always, or even principally, a social satirist. Weird Al Yankovic Endures 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The opening draws you right in with its destabilizing jump cuts, controlled freneticism, narrative ellipses and oddball swerves — cut to a fog-wreathed discussion about insomnia — which creates an inviting ambiguity. ‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z On one level, this oddball cast of characters simply represents the joys of the picaresque novel, in which the author’s set design is intentionally surreal and ironic. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Sia pulled off something similar with her "1000 Forms of Fear," using a manufactured sense of mystery to paradoxically boost the emotional impact of songs grounded in oddball specifics. Creative disruption from Blige to Swift upends music world in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z So I had convinced myself that if you’re going to tell these oddball characters and this level of specificity, it’s never going to be successful. Mark Duplass Can’t Get Enough of ‘Rocky II’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Olympia novelist Jim Lynch is an expert at conjuring appealing Northwest oddballs more in tune with the natural world than the man-made one. Colorful characters come to life in Book-It's 'Border Songs' 2011-09-23T17:50:05Z But the farm’s oddball chickens quickly insist that Sophie look after them in Kelly Jones’s “Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer.” KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Grand Plan to Fix Everything’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Growing up in Sarasota, in that oddball tourist-town environment, with the Circus Hall of Fame and Ringling Museum, did that shape you in any way? 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' redux: Bonus talk with Paul Reubens 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Those characters made their first appearances in a Web series that displayed the oddball sense of humor of a boy who cracked jokes in the back of the classroom but still did his homework. Critic?s Notebook: In ?China, IL? on Cartoon Network, Authority Figures Go Wild 2012-02-18T01:27:28Z Instead, it’s thoughtful and welcoming, often hilarious and just oddball enough. The Best TV Shows of 2017 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z But the gift shop is a fine place to find oddball art books and publications, and the lively, high-ceilinged restaurant Tokyo Eat is an appealing place to stop for lunch. | How to Visit Some of Paris’s Finest Museums but Skip the Crowds 2014-02-01T00:15:00Z Because it gets at something everybody knows: the feeling that, in one way or another, we are the oddball. Comedy gold: Jackie Mason's A Night at the Opera 2013-02-07T13:10:00Z I ran through them with my rucksack and the number pinned on my shirt like an oddball. Just a baby ultra? Qualifying for the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z An explosively popular moneymaker such as “Hamilton” is not the rule in America, it is the radical oddball. Perspective | The virus is already pushing small theaters to the brink. One Shakespeare theater hopes it can make it back. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z That doesn't happen here, which allows mod-pop synthetic jams such as "Bottoms Up," "Crush Me with Your Love" and opener "Throw Down the Roses" to fully ascend without Schneider's oddball interjections. Essential tracks: Kate Pierson makes up lost time with 'Guitars' 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The tedium of their work allows space for them to argue, bicker, compete and bond in David Gordon Green's oddball remake of a 2011 Icelandic movie called "Either Way". Quirky comedy film "Prince Avalanche" charms Berlin 2013-02-13T16:26:57Z Duchovny, who earned a master’s degree in English literature from Yale, is a witty writer, and he’s especially good at conjuring these oddball voices. David Duchovny’s first novel is a witty, madcap fable starring troubled cow, a Jewish pig and a suave turkey 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Tharp is an inspired inventor of movement – her phrases can be an almost palpably physical pleasure to watch, with unexpected twists and punches, and often oddball dynamics. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z But if Momoa signs on to play a character most people have never of, that may indicate oddball titles like "Doom Patrol" could have a place in new DC. Is the new DC Studios regime the apocalypse that "Doom Patrol" can't survive? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “Toy Story 3” also has a natural tie-in, since it revolves around Andy’s departure for college and what that means for the oddball inhabitants of his toy box. Disney Uses Cliffhanger to Market ?Toy Story 3? 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z When the “Trapped” project began in 2005 — as audio tracks only, not yet as video — it felt like an act of chutzpah and lunacy, but really it’s just one of untamable oddball creativity. Television Review: R. Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet’ on IFC 2012-11-22T22:48:45Z Odenkirk’s character runs with the story, stretching it out and making it uncomfortably personal until it turns into an oddball confession of loneliness. ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Gives Us the Jerks We Deserve 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z But wars are won, too, by passionate oddballs and nerds, the patriotic geekerati that help an army to live by its wits. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z But a long, dry stretch followed, through Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, lightened up in the 1960s only by oddball wits like Ray Johnson and Lee Lozano. Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Still, she remained part of Mr. Guest’s ensemble of oddballs, appearing in his improvised comedies “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind” and “For Your Consideration.” Parker Posey’s Offbeat Glamour 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z 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 This swinging, effective, straight-ahead song, with a few oddball Riff Raff flourishes, fully cements his path from area weirdo to living, breathing, viable rap star. New Albums by Riff Raff, Black Bananas and Phox 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z And Father, the leader of the emerging oddball label, Awful Records, delivered his chit-chat raps with surprising charisma, but ended his set with an unceremonious spat with the sound man. SXSW 2015: When a music festival feels like an after-party 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Spies are untrustworthy oddballs by nature, so any espionage movie built on shifting allegiances, moral quandaries and dark trade craft that still wants to be coherent and entertaining has its work cut out for it. 'November Man' script undercuts Pierce Brosnan's performance 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z I feel I have something of the oddball in me, too. Why Olga Tokarczuk Likes to Read T.S. Eliot in Translation 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z But the first take of the next song, “Bob Dylan’s Later Dream,” soon to be known as “Bob Dylan’s 115 Dream,” makes oddball history. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z And then, of course, there’s the musical’s oddball track. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z I felt like an oddball, and I’m sure my mom thought I was one, an alien child somehow mixed up with her solid, staid family. Coming out as an artist: I tried to be normal, but my creative side couldn’t stay hidden 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Leckey is an oddball connoisseur of culture both high and low. Museums Embrace the Unfamiliar 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Add to this caldron of gloom a peppering of oddball locals obsessed with all things Wright, and you’ve got a recipe for over-the-top paranormal activity. The House May Be Haunted. But in This Novel, Commitment Is Scarier. 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But it’s the third — a comic palate-cleanser in the “monster of the week” vein — that finally recreates the show’s oddball delights. As ‘The X-Files’ Returns, Do We Still Want to Believe? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Her excellent 2018 debut album, “Whack World,” was 15 minutes long, one minute per song, and released as one long video full of Whack inhabiting various oddball characters. For Innovation at the Grammys, Look at the Best Music Video Category 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z It's particularly present in the interactions between Karyn and Lucas, two of the novel's most winning oddballs. Growing up is hard to do in 'Amateurs' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “The pilot didn’t really give a hint of the oddball, surreal nature of the show we wanted to do,” Mr. Resnick said in a phone interview. ‘Get a Life,’ Now on DVD, With Chris Elliott 2012-10-21T03:17:16Z Mr. Backman didn’t fit into any obvious genre mold, and there was no guarantee that his whimsical, oddball sense of humor would appeal to Americans. The Man Behind ‘A Man Called Ove,’ Sweden’s Latest Hit Novel 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Regular people began experimenting, said Mr. Prueher, who with Mr. Pickett runs the Found Footage Festival, a traveling show of oddball VHS clips. VHS Film Retrospective at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-06-28T14:00:00Z “Along the way, the oddball trio will encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses and lots of human fools.” Disenchantment: new details released on Simpsons creator's first show in 20 years 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z With the help of several oddball characters, Byx realizes that finding the colony is crucial not only to her species but also to creatures of all kinds. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Parker Inheritance’ 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The script is so crammed with oddball characters that it threatens to become a clown car. ‘First Date’ Review: Modern Action Romance Propelled by a ’65 Chrysler 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The oddball accolades that used to be commonplace, for instance, have been kept to a minimum. Golden Globe Awards Have New Stature 2013-01-11T23:58:31Z Of the entire roster of oddball, Vegas-esque offerings on the themed side streets, it’s the dance crew that knows how to pull them in. Rock in Rio: Five highlights from Day 1 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z “I was playing oddball people and it was great fun to do,” Hunt said. TV channel to celebrate Hollywood star Marsha Hunt, now 103 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Character sketches, Mr Davenport-Hines’s great talent, reveal a horde of Treasury oddballs. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z He's hoping his resources — a plethora of oddballs, really — and some astute planning can be enough to fight the Trent tide. 'A Hanging at Cinder Bottom' is an engaging, clever con 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Finn, 35, grew up in Akron, Ohio, the son of a cinephile father who encouraged the wandering of video store aisles in search of oddball VHS box art. In ‘Smile,’ Why the Grins Are So Grim 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Even that utterance had an oddball SoCal cast to it, as though it had been cribbed from a Red Hot Chili Peppers lyric sheet. For Paris Men’s Wear, the Next Stop Is California 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Locals saw Faulkner as an oddball who'd be so wrapped up in his own thoughts that he'd often walk past people he knew without exchanging pleasantries. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z In his latest, it's none of the above, as Depp takes on the voice of an oddball reptile in the animated feature "Rango." Johnny Depp aims to make his kids giggle with 'Rango' 2011-03-04T16:54:50Z Nicolas Cage plays her father, an equally menacing oddball named Big Daddy. Cat-and-Mouse for a Trashy Trailer 2010-02-23T23:28:00Z The oddball characters and layered plot make this puzzle mystery both charming and challenging. Unmasking Magic and Murder in the Best New Crime 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z These oddballs are also foul-mouthed but far less eloquent, though Ace sometimes lapses into “Guys and Dolls” diction. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z They talked of how he reinvented late-night television with oddball bits, as well as of his ability to deliver comforting words during the worst of times. David Letterman’s friends — and shrink — make his Twain ceremony as funny as his late-night legacy 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z With such a restless, oddball career to work from, your own Jonze marathon can be as classy or crude as you like. Streaming: curate your own Spike Jonze mini-season 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z The Little Hours coasts along breezily on the oddball rhythms of its actors. Medieval Laughs for the Modern Day 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z If you remain unconvinced of the healing properties of patience, time and rest, then try this oddball exercise: Give your brain a challenge, like doing a crossword or writing an essay or making complicated plans. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A move has hit her like a ton of bricks 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It turned out to be my favorite oddball stop of all. The Met, they’re not: The oddest museums in New York City 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But these oddballs were heroic, each in his own way. In a Time of Crisis, Her Voice Was the One That Galvanized Alaska 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z With nods to the trials of freelance employment and workplace bullying, this oddball horror-art movie has a firmer grasp of working life than many sober slices of social realism. Peter Strickland: 'I'm glad British film produces mainstream crowd-pleasers, but I don't want to make one' 2012-08-23T20:00:02Z But the section also features oddball comedies, and one to keep an eye on is “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie,” an extension of the TV series on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Carpetbagger Blog: Delusional Teenagers and Other Sundance Offerings 2011-12-01T21:00:42Z "I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself," Jackson told Reuters on Saturday. Bullied as a kid, Peter Jackson fights back on film 2012-01-22T00:25:35Z But it also has enough oddball touches, including its David Lynchian introduction walking through Radio City Music Hall, to convince the audience that this clean-cut comedian is much more eccentric than you thought. Best Comedy of 2018 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z “I always felt like the oddball,” Mr. Whitenight said, “and now here it is, everywhere.” Antiques: Victorian Collections Capture Worlds Under Glass 2013-06-13T20:01:05Z Isn’t there a woke comedy or an oddball Netflix import we could be talking about? Review: ‘Bosch’ Is Back, Still on the Straight and Narrow 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Anarchic and unconstrained, the World Wide Web attracted an oddball collection of people ready to do almost anything and call it art. The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Despite Billy’s gnarled form, which makes even walking an agonizing process, he often registers as just one of many vivid portraits in a gallery of oddballs. Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Stars in Revival of ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ 2014-04-21T02:00:12Z His character, a peculiar second grader named Brick, has already earned a spot in television’s Hall of Fame — at least in the distant wing devoted to oddball kids. Television: Peculiar on and Off Set: Atticus Shaffer of ?The Middle? 2010-05-08T03:09:00Z The rangy, oddball sensibility of “SCTV” made way for “The Kids in the Hall” and “Mr. Show,” and the big-idea narrative premise of Upright Citizens Brigade. For the Comedy Iconoclasts of ‘SCTV,’ a Joyful Reunion Tinged With Loss 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z This is the kind of random question Randall Munroe, 29, creator of the massively popular web comic xkcd, answers every week for What If?, his spin-off project that poses oddball science questions. XKCD: When Physics Is Funny 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z For instance, in 2016, Netflix signed up eight oddball comics, none of them famous, and gave each a half-hour to create a series of interwoven character scenes. Rediscovering an Ambitious Sketch Comedy That Never Caught On 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The tone is largely lonesome, whether in the shadows of dry country on “No New Faces” or in detailing an aw-shucks oddball love affair on “New Age Dinosaur.” Playlist: Sounds of Summer: Feisty, Moody, Chutney 2011-06-24T19:31:01Z But it’s also a clever riff on the family sitcom, as the establishment’s proprietor is the patriarch of a decidedly oddball family; most surprisingly, it treats that family with genuine affection, peccadilloes and all. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z He won't be playing Fred but another oddball, a kid who doesn't let on to his classmates that he's really from Outer Space. Meet Fred Figglehorn; everyone under 18 has 2010-09-16T18:01:00Z Paul Rudd takes infuriating oddball Steve Carell to his unusual supper club in this remake of French comedy Le Dîner De Cons. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-01-15T00:05:56Z The actor appears occasionally in the soap opera as an oddball artist named Franco. Actor James Franco guesting on 'General Hospital' 2010-12-08T23:39:00Z Maybe set him in a New York bar – closing time, just him and an oddball bartender, a la Kate McKinnon and Hillary Clinton — and watch the sparks fly? Thanks for nothing, “SNL” and Donald Trump: Welcome to the nightmare of “equal time” for these GOP candidates 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The proliferation of oddball residencies simply reiterates how hysterically difficult it is for contemporary artists who are not born rich to nurture or sustain any sort of creative practice. Why Artists Need Oddball Residencies 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z As the film vividly shows, in scenes that fluctuate from farcical to spine-tingling, the designer brings the oddball community of Ames together. International Space Orchestra: the designer taking music into space 2013-06-03T05:30:01Z We have come to expect the absurd, the oddball, the incomprehensible and the impenetrable in contemporary art. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z First, that the author holds a Phd in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and is hence more than just another oddball SF writer with an overactive imagination. Is the Robopocalypse nigh? 2011-07-12T16:24:22Z Over the years, my oddball friends and I would use our Plimpton impersonations as shorthand. Ken Burns's The Civil War: America's greatest documentary rides again 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Of course, the oddballs still had to prove their worth—Rudolph cuts through the fog with his luminous schnoz, Hermey defangs the abominable snowman—in a way that would be hard to imagine today. In Praise of Rudolph 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z But Depp, creating yet another marble-skinned oddball, is once again weirdly mesmerizing, and he and Green are a match in Burton heaven. Tim Burton's campy, vampy 'Dark Shadows' 2012-05-10T00:40:05Z With it, he offers a whimsical if ultimately unrealistic alternative to the highly networked grid of Chelsea — a place where oddballs and everyday folks are recognized for making good art. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z Like that of The American Bystander, the humor often hinges on a precisely turned phrase or an oddball expression. Titanic Still Afloat: The American Bystander Publishes Second Issue 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z But it was the exotic jumble of “code blues” and oddball walk-ins that helped keep “ER” going for 15 seasons. Television Review | 'Miami Medical': The Bruckheimer Formula in a Hospital 2010-04-01T22:33:00Z That was the case, she says, when a role came up in 2011 in Sarah Polley’s oddball romance Take this Waltz. Michelle Williams: ‘When something is available, I’ll risk any embarrassment to get it’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z She followed that with an oddball meditation on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” an ambitious aesthetic smackdown with the biggest gun of English literature. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z The contrivances are there, mostly in the form of oddball American signifiers that dot each song with telling accents. Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence": Defiant seduction from pop instigator ★★★ 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Her dormitory performances with furniture, documented in photographs, bring fresh oddball vigour to the sad, abandoned college digs. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z Unencumbered by ratings-chasing studios, the show has developed at its own pace, with no pressure to helicopter in distracting high-profile cameos or sacrifice its easygoing, slightly oddball, charm. Terrible name, terrific sitcom: how Schitt's Creek became a surprise hit 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z The parade of oddballs, foreign news presenters, folk singers and cockney eco-warriors whizzed past like the conveyor-belt prizes on The Generation Game. The Fast Show returns! Here are six of the best sketches 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z It turns out that the house belonged to oddball writer Denver Kristoff, whose characters won’t stay put on the library’s shelves. Summer Book Club: 'Out of This World' So earlier this year, I made the pilgrimage to this three million acre expanse on the California-Nevada border, following the footsteps of unknown numbers of old-time prospectors and oddballs. Journeys: Death Valley: Three Million Acres of Weird 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z The popular sitcom, starring Ray Romano, centered on an oddball family living on Long Island. 'Everybody Loves Raymond' Child Star Kills Himself at 19 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z An uncle named Trevor Cooper plays one of the village’s crotchety oddballs. Drama Meets Tedium and a British Sitcom is Born 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Compared with the livelier oddball duos on Fox’s “Bones” and “Sleepy Hollow,” though, there’s no spark in the combo — nor in the supporting cast, which includes a stiff Wilmer Valderrama as Detective Vega’s smug boss. Review: In ‘Minority Report,’ a Case of Precognitive Dissonance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z A rather promising oddball teen movie that lets itself down a little by jumping to fully fledged horror. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-11-10T00:05:53Z |
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