And after reading numerous interviews with Garfield's creator Jim Davis, it's easy to assume that behind the curmudgeonly cat is a curmudgeonly man.
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SUCH a wonderful, fun, silly, smart, delightful, curmudgeonly ole soul.
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When he wasn't being curmudgeonly, Ellison could be kind, even courtly.
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We read aloud and laughed through this curmudgeonly ode to pessimism.
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Dr. Seuss's curmudgeonly Grinch, impersonating a Kabuki warlord, comes to mind.
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Or just leave the curmudgeonly sod at home in the first place.
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He is a curmudgeonly perfectionist in a sport where perfection is unattainable.
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The new government has already struck deals with some of the curmudgeonly creditors.
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Rey bugs him to train her, he curmudgeonly refuses, but eventually gives in.
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Being a curmudgeonly old fuck, I have a problem with meme songs in general.
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The formidable Chris Cooper, as a curmudgeonly Salinger, has a brief but masterly turn.
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Others are curmudgeonly and expert about golf, like Tom Callahan's "His Father's Son" (2010).
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"He may come off curmudgeonly but is a sweetheart like no other," the bio explained.
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I think all of them came over eventually, though some were more curmudgeonly about it.
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"I know a lot," replied Schiff, who played curmudgeonly White House communications director Toby Ziegler.
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And true to form, Sedaris' recounting is filled with his trademark brand of curmudgeonly humor.
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This all feels so "It's a Wonderful Life," it's hard to sound a curmudgeonly note.
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Mayim Bialik won't be offering up any retorts to curmudgeonly Sheldon Cooper any time soon.
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Be receptive on Monday: Your ruling planet, warrior Mars, meets serious (and occasionally curmudgeonly!) Saturn.
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Alas, sometimes the party has to end—and aggressive Mars in curmudgeonly Capricorn knows this well.
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In order to save Christmas, Buddy must make everyone — even his curmudgeonly father — believe in Santa.
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Jimmy tries his hardest to be curmudgeonly, but of course his obsession increases as the puzzle deepens.
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It is like a giant wedding designed to make even the most curmudgeonly of relations tear up.
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The ensuing investigation plunges a curmudgeonly detective and a young semiologist into the French intelligentsia's sordid affairs.
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When was the last time you heard a curmudgeonly adult complain that kids today have it easy?
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Andrew Scott (aka hot priest of Fleabag) plays Tobin, an Irish and curmudgeonly version of Dan Savage.
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Jupiter is jolly and generous, but Saturn is stuffy and curmudgeonly, and it rules our fears and worries.
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But even with the no-guff Lendl in his camp, he has had no shortage of curmudgeonly moments.
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Curmudgeonly old music writer types, myself included, like to bemoan the loss of context now, post-liner notes.
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Mr. Fleischmann accused Mr. Bernheimer of "curmudgeonly, slick, superficial outpourings" that had a "demoralizing, depressing effect" on musicians.
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" In a funny, curmudgeonly monologue, Abby describes herself as an unfinished building ruining a good neighborhood—"an eyesore.
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Because of this, the book occasionally feels like it is curmudgeonly shaking its fist in the air at modernity.
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A feminist isn't a man-hating, curmudgeonly spinster who lives out her days in her apartment with 43 cats.
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But Oscar's curmudgeonly nature and his dirty, matted green fur make him all the more endearing to his admirers.
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Dr. Broecker could be combative and even curmudgeonly, recalled Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University.
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It uses its own magic arrows to hunt and has a bit of a curmudgeonly, love/hate relationship with humans.
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But the bachelor might not be as good as he seems — and perhaps his curmudgeonly friend has more to offer.
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The book's anxiety of tech — the novel particularly admonishes the increasing prevalence of television — comes across as curmudgeonly and simplistic.
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Richard E. Grant earned plaudits at the film's Toronto premiere this fall for his role as Israel's curmudgeonly best friend.
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My curmudgeonly twin points out that it's all a bunch of nonsense made up to get women to buy stuff.
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San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is known for his curmudgeonly interactions with reporters when it comes to basketball questions.
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As voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, the latest incarnation of that mean, green, Christmas-stealing machine should be more curmudgeonly than ever.
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New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick isn't always patrolling the sidelines in a hooded sweatshirt while sporting a curmudgeonly scowl.
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But some switches, the IBM Beam Spring, are so beloved that even the most curmudgeonly keyboard fan thinks of them wistfully.
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The Strand employees are known for being "curmudgeonly" but also clever, even cool: Former employees include Patti Smith and Luc Sante.
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King's brief on-screen appearance (playing the curmudgeonly proprietor of an antique store) can be taken as a seal of approval.
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Magellan, a widower with two daughters, is curmudgeonly but sneaky-hip in the vein of Tom Barnaby, the original "Midsomer" detective.
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It was adverted to by the old, curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic.
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The series's opening scene features Josh Connors, Cat Factory's awkward, curmudgeonly head designer, repeatedly checking his overdrawn bank account over the phone.
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Mr Schur pushed the format with "Parks and Recreation", celebrated for Amy Poehler's ambitious Leslie Knope and Nick Offerman's curmudgeonly Ron Swanson.
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His curmudgeonly father (also Mr. Belton, although you'd never guess it) disapproves, and Andrey's spinster sister Mary (Gelsey Bell) remains chilly, too.
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And these days, contrary to what some curmudgeonly grandfather figures may believe, technology is giving us more freedom in our daily lives.
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The show featured Marc Copage as Julia's son, and Lloyd Nolan as the curmudgeonly but broad-minded doctor for whom she worked.
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Davis would have been much more convincing as "shy" than "curmudgeonly," but even that would have been a stretch given Johnson's megawatt charisma.
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And ultimately, Waitress isn't even a fable of self-reliance, because Jenna's happy ending is gifted to her by a curmudgeonly old man.
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But as she ages, the protagonist never evolves, continuing to narrate her self-destructive life in the same curmudgeonly voice, devoid of insight.
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Sesame Workshop co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney hailed Spinney for his turn as the curmudgeonly puppet in a trash can, Oscar the Grouch.
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When people talk about the green curmudgeonly guy who lives in a trash can, I politely nod to pretend I know who they mean.
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These setbacks seemed to vindicate the curmudgeonly sneer cited by Peter Tasker, of Arcus Investment, dismissing the BRICs as a "Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept".
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He's fond of the gruff and curmudgeonly Bauer, yet sentimentality is scarce while the double-crossings are surprising and the dry humor is welcome.
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Ms. Hart plays a curmudgeonly genius doctor — a take on "House," maybe — who diagnoses her patient, Ms. Helbig, as hopelessly in love with her.
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The big news in the political world today is that the curmudgeonly former mayor of New York City is seriously considering an independent presidential bid.
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Gilmore Girls' curmudgeonly Luke Danes may have served coffee for a living, but he would probably loathe the idea of starting his own coffee brand.
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From the beginning, Bryant showed a surprising level of openness and self-awareness on Twitter, poking fun at his own curmudgeonly, lone-wolf reputation. 25.
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Mrs von der Leyen has not shown much of a knack for that in her attempts to overhaul Germany's dismally run and curmudgeonly armed forces.
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While my mom was gregarious and emotive, my dad was the quiet observer and thinker — some might say stoic, or on a bad day, curmudgeonly.
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Mr. Wolfson has been playing Mr. Sanders in the mock forums, taking inspiration in part from the curmudgeonly Muppets characters Statler and Waldorf, he said.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) adopted the selfie line earlier this spring (although the notoriously curmudgeonly senator has been known to wave off such requests); Sen.
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In particular, the film gives us a curmudgeonly Luke who has largely rejected the Force and thinks the Jedi should go extinct when he dies.
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As for Vlad, we haven't seen a curmudgeonly older man/young waif dynamic this good since the Hound and Arya parted ways on Game of Thrones.
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This album is not for everyone, but if you're able to go along with White's wild ride of a curmudgeonly adventure, it may be for you.
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Miguel, Rafa, and one of the other farmers, a curmudgeonly, middle-aged man named Don Neto (Joaquín Cosio) pile into a car and drive to Guadalajara.
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It's cute, and only the most curmudgeonly selfie-hater would condemn it now: we're past #takes about narcissism and whether phones are poison (obviously they are).
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Waititi's final pre-Thor feature is a total delight, a moving comedy about a teenage boy and a curmudgeonly old man who form a makeshift family.
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Hossein Shariatmadari, the curmudgeonly editor of Kayhan, a state-run daily, calls the bills a sign of "weakness" in the face of American sanctions on the Guards.
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Image: PLOS OneGetting your fake ID snatched at 503am from a curmudgeonly bouncer is an embarrassing rite of passage too many of us have had to endure.
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And on the other extreme was Second Hand Rose's (which is still in business), the place to look for curmudgeonly audiophiles and pricey, first-edition Beatles pressings.
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Edith and Harold, the solitary souls who become a pair in Charles Mee's pleasingly jagged romantic comedy "First Love," don't so much meet cute as meet curmudgeonly.
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The sack in which he traps and beats the curmudgeonly Géronde was transformed into an oversize canvas cover, deployed over the audience as Géronde hid among us.
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Call me old-fashioned, but the curmudgeonly part of me feels that all crossword constructors should be able to construct crosswords (to some degree) without computer assistance.
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DOC MARTIN on Acorn TV. Martin Clunes reprises his role as the curmudgeonly doctor in the British village of Portwenn in Season 8 of this ITV dramedy.
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Sometimes it's hard, but it is essential: From the most unreliable delivery person to the most curmudgeonly IT guy, disengage your personal feelings and be polite and genuine.
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On Saturday, Ben Affleck and girlfriend Lindsay Shookus stepped out for a night together in Hollywood where they were joined by the lovable but curmudgeonly comic Larry David.
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"I love the little moments of character, I love the little exchanges between 'Bones' and Spock," said Pegg, referring to the ship's curmudgeonly surgeon, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy.
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Emma Thompson plays the curmudgeonly P.L. Travers (the author of the original book) to great effect, and Tom Hanks is, unsurprisingly, a perfect fit for the genial Disney.
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In her latest essay collection, Samantha Irby seems hell-bent on convincing readers she's "boring and terrible" — kind of curmudgeonly, prefers the company of her cat over most people.
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It features the greats: Peter, manically debauched, and Catherine, the "regicidal, uxoricidal German usurper"; and also dismal failures such as Alexander III, who ruled Russia as a "curmudgeonly landowner".
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Their unwillingness or incapacity to take credit for good times and defend the tax cuts that have helped families only lends credence to the curmudgeonly Krugmans of the world.
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Although Greg Derelian's surly facial and vocal expressions as Coriolanus seem a bit obvious, his rugged physicality and unflagging vigor fuse into a sturdy portrayal of a curmudgeonly hero.
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Perhaps that's a curmudgeonly "back in my day" attitude, but you do lose a sense of connectedness when you cut out the grocery store and the art of cooking.
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But his pals aren't far behind, and this time they unwittingly drag along Spencer's curmudgeonly grandfather, Eddie (an amusing Danny DeVito), and Eddie's estranged business partner, Milo (Danny Glover).
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Based on that and The Force Awakens and the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, there's a solid theory out there that the curmudgeonly actor is killing off his most iconic characters.
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I often feel like a curmudgeonly troll slinking down there on the weekends while it's 85 degrees outside and my housemates and friends are out gardening, bicycling, swimming, and hiking.
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Moss often tries to sound curmudgeonly, but is clearly heart-struck and psychically reliant upon New York's wild singularity, which he believes is stocked by small businesses like Shopsin's family's.
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Lumbering, frowning and curmudgeonly, Ove trudges back to the small gated community that he watches over like a hawk and determines to join his recently deceased wife by hanging himself.
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"A curmudgeonly, constantly exasperated, frequently-incomprehensible, funny, modest, affectionate and loyal companion to any reporter who took their job as seriously as he did," is how he she described him.
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I would love for the supporting cast to narrow the Mack Sennett broadness just a bit (though I think David Hyde Pierce is a marvel as Dolly's curmudgeonly romantic prey).
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As Bin, Liao is less central than Zhao but equally masterful, effortlessly transforming himself from a sexy, stone-faced hood to the neurotic, curmudgeonly invalid of the film's final act.
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That thrilled Mr Sanders, a curmudgeonly socialist senator who just last month introduced a "Stop BEZOS Act" which would tax the company for the public benefits received by low-paid workers.
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And his curmudgeonly, I-can't-be-bothered-with-anything-else persona lent a sense of raw urgency and conviction to his message about the disastrous level of economic inequality in America.
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Directed by Scott Aukerman, 'Between Two Ferns: The Movie' is a laugh-out-loud comedy that gives new insight into the curmudgeonly, beloved outsider Zach Galifianakis has created over the years.
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Whereas someone like Sanders, no one is that surprised if he's difficult to work with because he comes across as somewhat angry and curmudgeonly, and that's much better tolerated in men.
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It begins with a yellow-bellied workman, Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson), arriving at the remote, foreboding lighthouse that has long been the domain of a curmudgeonly keeper, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe).
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I'll admit that I spent the show's first 10 minutes or so in a state of slightly irritable resistance, seeing so many curmudgeonly eccentrics assembled for an in-house talent night.
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The trailer gives us our first look at the motley GLOW crew, including Sydelle Noel, Kia Stevens, Jackie Tohn, and Sunita Mani, who work at the mercy of Maron's curmudgeonly director Sam.
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Frankly, though, none of these women can compare to the curmudgeonly biographer-turned-forger Lee Israel, who once rocked the exclusive literary scene in the '90s with her forgeries of author letters.
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Los Angeles led to some TV and movie roles, but it was in Las Vegas, the Rat Pack's home base, where Rickles perfected his craft of curmudgeonly humor with sharply timed insults.
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His father, Prince Nikolai (played by Jim Broadbent), is the curmudgeonly sort who doesn't really do goodbyes except to say he'd be "pained" by Andrei's death but "ashamed" by his bad behavior.
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The curmudgeonly Mr. Black, who is a longstanding contributor to "The Daily Show" and gave voice to Anger in the movie "Inside Out," last performed on Broadway during the 2012 election cycle.
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Damon plays American racer and designer Carroll Shelby who was hired by a curmudgeonly Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) to build a car with Miles that would defeat Ferrari at Le Mans.
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To make the point, privately-held CKE, branded Carl's Jr. in the West and Hardee's in the East, will roll out a fictional character named Carl Hardee Sr., a curmudgeonly founding figure.
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Yet their curmudgeonly characters likely predisposed them to discern genuine problems in government that their adversaries preferred to exploit for their own advantage rather than correct for the good of the nation.
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At the risk of seeming too curmudgeonly, I'll give the writers of the show — this chapter was written by Chris Silvestri and Anthony Maranville — credit for the overarching Red Angel story line.
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Occasionally, people will eschew humor entirely in favor of dramatizing personal anecdotes: a deathbed confession of a curmudgeonly uncle or maybe a particularly poignant moment from a grade school production of Cats.
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In the latter, a series that ran from 1984 to 1987, he was a curmudgeonly building manager who finds an abandoned girl, played by Soleil Moon Frye, and eventually becomes her foster parent.
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But wherever it has been it has reflected the curmudgeonly, curse-word-employing personality of Mr. Shopsin, a man who was rarely written about without having the word "eccentric" appended to his name.
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In such an unpredictable political climate, Mr. Sanders is at least a known quantity who built a loyal following with his curmudgeonly demeanor and fiery challenge to Wall Street and the Washington elite.
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A pagan spin on the Christmas tale, Xena is tasked with convincing a curmudgeonly king to end his ban forbidding subjects from celebrating the winter solstice (with stockings, pine trees, ornaments and all).
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Most curmudgeonly protagonists, my own included, are barely eligible for senior discounts and ought to be booking cycling trips across Asia instead of shuffling about in their bedroom slippers (yes, I mean you, Ove).
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A lucky conversation arrives on September 24 as Mercury connects with Jupiter, but watch out for Venus's clash with curmudgeonly Saturn on September 25—this isn't a good time to plan a romantic date!
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However, there is no way to make concerned or disappointed-looking gallerists (on their cell phones or staring curmudgeonly off into space, respectively) look like anything other than evidence of "transactions" or lack thereof.
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So, when the paper's curmudgeonly publisher (Garry Marshall) assigns her a huge investigative feature requiring her to go undercover as a senior in high school, it seems like she might finally be on her way.
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JEM FAWCUSChief executiveFirefish London I can only assume that Bagehot was in a truly curmudgeonly post-holiday mood when he penned the column on why Parliament needs more MPs from the armed forces (September 1st).
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Mars meets Saturn at 11:44 AM. This is a curmudgeonly combination of planetary energies, and things will feel stuck; however, a new cycle is beginning, and an opportunity to behave more responsibly will arrive.
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Opposite a curmudgeonly Bill Hader as Nick Kringle (the reluctant heir to the Santa throne), Kendrick plays Noelle — the overly enthusiastic daughter of Ol' Saint Nick, eager to get her brother ready before Christmas Eve.
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I think by the time we got Dick Gregory, which was, you know, he was a very old man and he seemed curmudgeonly, at least to me, I didn't receive him as a standup person.
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He smiled at everyone we passed, at the curmudgeonly men on the bench on the corner, at the intimidating-looking guy on the subway blasting music on his phone — who, to my shock, smiled back.
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Ed Asner, best known as the curmudgeonly but honorable Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, played the hired captain of the ship that brought Kunta and other kidnapped Africans to the United States.
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Instead of pursuing the chimera of a generous free-trade deal with a curmudgeonly EU, Britain could revert to trading on World Trade Organisation terms (never mind that this would not be simple—see box overleaf).
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He can be a bit curmudgeonly: this reporter once watched him at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, fretting about young children who call parents by their first names, citing this as a symptom of national decline.
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Poll: Clinton tops Sanders, but lead shrinks The candidates show some personality Sanders, the curmudgeonly 74-year-old who acts like he abhors the pageantry of campaigning, was ready to show a little personality Monday night.
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Dr. West and Mr. Rivers recalled Professor Kilson as a curmudgeonly mentor who nurtured scholars like them over long conversations, often at dinner at his house near Harvard or at his summer home in New Hampshire.
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The relationship between humans and the environment turns somber in Jude Griebel's sculpture "Washout" (2015) which depicts a catastrophic scene of a small town destroyed by a landslide, melded into a sickly and curmudgeonly human face.
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The first, initially hell-bent on killing Cersei all by herself, is talked out of it by her curmudgeonly mentor, once it becomes clear that Daenerys won't stop until the entire city is razed to the ground.
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"I did my curmudgeonly best not to let my blood boil when I read the list of Hall Of Fame inductees for 2019," tweeted Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee, arguing Lema, Weiskopf and Smith all deserved inclusion.
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It's not; instead, it's an intimate, strange, often-upsetting close read of the life of one man and his curmudgeonly battle to improve the town he lives in — a fight which ultimately becomes a battle within himself.
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Anyone who expressed concern about the role of social media in our society, and particularly in our politics, was treated as a cut-rate Andy Rooney, too curmudgeonly to learn to stop worrying and love the selfies.
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Because if it's truly going to be accessible to everyone, then you have to assume that a subset of the population just, you know, that curmudgeonly person might not want to download that app and it's okay.
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Richard Harrison, the curmudgeonly patriarch of the "Pawn Stars" family whose grumblings about the goings-on in the Las Vegas shop he ran with his son and grandson made him a reality TV star, has died at 77.
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The early days are fraught with tension between the two, and Martin is especially curmudgeonly—but he eventually warms up to his new situation, even if he never stops teasing his effete sons for their generally pompous nerdassery.
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Blackie Sherrod, a sportswriter and editor who endeared himself to his Texas readers with a Southern strain of Runyonesque erudition, and to generations of younger reporters with his curmudgeonly mentoring, died on Thursday at his home in Dallas.
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But upon the release, early this month, of Pokémon Go — the long-awaited augmented-reality iPhone and Android counterpart to the original Game Boy series — I found I had evolved to the curmudgeonly attributes of the nearly 30.
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As per usual, Midge's hair and dress perfectly speak to the late '50s/early '60s era of glam, while the lovably curmudgeonly Susie sports a dressed-up version of her usual garb, including a blazer and newsboy cap.
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But soon a laconic Texas Ranger, played by Jeff Bridges with all the expected curmudgeonly charm, and his deputy catch wind of their scheme and chase them on a breezy hunt from one broken-down town to the next.
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The lovably curmudgeonly thesp played Brother Ray, a rural priest who rescued The Hound and nursed him back to health in the Season 6 episode "The Broken Man," before meeting an untimely demise at the hands of the Brotherhood Without Banners.
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His clothes, along with his trundling gait, give him the appearance of a curmudgeonly but twinkle-eyed shtetl tailor, come to dispense wisdom about structures of international trade-dispute arbitration as he fits the bar mitzvah boy for a suit.
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It was the year that board chairman M. Donald Grant was goaded into trading Tom Seaver, "The Franchise," by a curmudgeonly Daily News sports columnist named Dick Young, who didn't much like players trying to get paid what they're worth.
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Chisa Hutchinson's "Surely Goodness and Mercy," at Theater Row, takes its title from Psalms, the section of the Bible that — if we're to believe the show's curmudgeonly but kindhearted lunch lady, Bernadette — is where all the good book's bangers are.
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I loved the clues for EAVESDROP and BAD MOOD (and tried to shoehorn "garbage" and "rubbish" in there at some point); I also take strenuous issue with the clue for NEGATIVITY, as I consider myself both curmudgeonly and possessing relentless OPTIMISM.
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Frankly, even though I lean to Sanders, I think he comes off as condescending and rude at those points -- which he sort of manages to get away with because he's a curmudgeonly old white guy, but Clinton won't get the same pass.
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Nintendo's long-awaited unveiling of its next-generation gaming system generated a lot of excitement in the gaming community this week, with both the company's loyal fans and even some of the curmudgeonly jaded hardcore gamer audience celebrating the unveiling of Switch.
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This weekend's Saturday Night Live reimagined a new HBO series, Bern Your Enthusiasm, starring David as Sanders, and just like that David classic, it followed our curmudgeonly presidential candidate as his many minor personality quirks derailed his hopes for a national political revolution.
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Already, she has been called "caustic, profane, curmudgeonly, affecting and very funny" (NPR), "nothing short of miraculous" (Big Apple Reviews), in her "best performance to date" (Variety), "the ideal template for McCarthy to project her talents onto a more sophisticated plane" (IndieWire).
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The past year has seen a series of embarrassments for the curmudgeonly royal, culminating in the Prince Consort's pleading illness to avoid his wife's 75th birthday celebrations last April – before being spotted soon after in apparent good health on a jaunt with friends in Venice.
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Paul Rudd joins the Marvel Universe as Scott Lang, a hapless ex-con who gets mixed up with a curmudgeonly scientist (Michael Douglas) and — hello, second chances — is fitted with a size-shifting mechanical suit to pull off a heist that will change the world.
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Michael Sharp, who posts often savage reviews of every daily Times crossword under the pseudonym Rex Parker — but she never talks to him about his obsession or his adopted persona as the curmudgeonly scold whom every constructor resents but many secretly want to please.
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You might argue as vigorously for his essay collections, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb" (1988) and "The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations" (1982), in which he radiated curmudgeonly intelligence about everything from nude beaches and the Indianapolis 500 to George Orwell's radical honesty.
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Cinema's reigning bard of curmudgeonly misfits and outsider artists, Mr. Zwigoff made his mark in documentaries with "Louie Bluie" (Saturday) and "Crumb" (Sunday) and kept his acerbic voice intact when he moved into fiction features with "Ghost World" (Friday), an adaptation of the cartoonist Daniel Clowes's work.
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The "Pawn Star" family is dealing with a significant loss following the death of Richard "Old Man" Harrison , the curmudgeonly patriarch of the Harrison family whose grumbling about the goings-on in the Las Vegas shop he ran with his son and grandson made him a reality TV star.
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And while we can't reveal too much about what hijinks up-and-coming comedian Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and her lovably curmudgeonly manager, Susie (Alex Borstein), get into down south, we can exclusively reveal the first photo from the new season, which will stream later this year.
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And when the National Theater turned down two other plays, Mr. Nichols responded by publishing a parody of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," in which a curmudgeonly dramatist ("writers, writers everywhere, and each the worse for drink") mocked that theater and its director then, Richard Eyre.
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Day 344: "Scarface" – The Drought Is Over 2 (The Carter 3 Sessions), 2007 There's a popular opinion among certain Lil Wayne fans, generally the curmudgeonly rap head kind who want you to know that they were there first, that the 2007 leak of Tha Carter III irreparably damaged the final product.
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In Trolls, curmudgeonly Branch (voiced by Timberlake) and Poppy (voiced by Anna Kendrick) set off on a journey to rescue her friends after Troll Village gets invaded by Bergens, large creatures who never feel happy but discover that they can feel happy for a moment if they eat a Troll. .
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But as the Mandalorian goes through his paces — a few battles to establish his talent for violence, the acceptance of an iffy bounty contract, the acquisition of a curmudgeonly sidekick, a surprise twist that humanizes him and sets the season's story in motion — it's also clear that we're firmly within the Jediverse.
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To wit: Family matriarch Ruth (Blythe Danner), who has middle-stage Alzheimer's, wanders into the street in just her nightgown one night, forcing a confrontation between her stubborn and curmudgeonly husband (Robert Forster) and their equally stubborn son (Michael Shannon) about whether to commit Ruth to a full-time facility, with their daughter (Hilary Swank) caught in the middle.
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The touching portrait of the curmudgeonly comedian who could fire off insults better than any other also contains some surprising tidbits — find out how Rickles gave Clint Eastwood the idea to register in hotels under the name "Larry Dickman" — and pays great tribute to one of the most iconic faces of comedy for more than six decades.
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Fast forward almost two years, and Bourdain is still a curmudgeonly continent hopper, but President Obama is out of the Oval Office and in the National Portrait Gallery, and the table where the two of them sat is also under glass, preserved so others can take solemn selfies while they wait for their own noodle bowls.
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Stuck for most of the movie on a steam boat (the name of which gives this 234 movie its title), a curmudgeonly captain (Bogart) and a prim missionary (Hepburn) plot a revenge attack against a German vessel during World War I. The action is constrained, but the antagonistic rapport between the two protagonists is expansive and entertaining.
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He stayed up later and slept later than even Alexander Woolcott [the curmudgeonly critic who was the inspiration for the play, "The Man Who Came to Dinner"]; he ate, and thoroughly enjoyed, more food than any two men or three diplomats; and he consumed brandy and scotch with a grace and enthusiasm that left us all openmouthed in awe.
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" (Longtime readers will know the Ghost of Three Stars is thoroughly adequate, though unremarkable, in every way, which is to say she is a DVD of the 2002 Reese Witherspoon vehicle Sweet Home Alabama.) "What my more curmudgeonly colleague misses," said the ghost with a smile, "is this film's potential for great camp enjoyment, especially thanks to its bevy of perfectly fine performances.
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And how frighteningly relevant the works of that most curmudgeonly of British playwrights suddenly feel given the state of the world, as evidenced by a celebration here of the more obscure works of Pinter, who could turn family dysfunction into squirm-in-your-seat hysteria, and loneliness and despair into the worst nightmare of a theater full of well-heeled couples.
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After decades of stubborn and curmudgeonly devotion to unheralded writers and capital L literature, the Swedish Academy changed its approach, awarding new modes (Svetlana Alexievich's hybrid of fiction and nonfiction won in 13; Bob Dylan's music in 2016) and showing greater comfort with celebrity (it's hard to get more famous than Dylan, though Ishiguro's popularity likely would have disqualified him in the recent past).
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The tally of Valadon's mentors and champions reads like a who's who of Impressionist painters, from Miguel Utrillo, who claimed paternity of her only child (although three others could reasonably contest this), to Renoir, Lautrec, van Gogh — even curmudgeonly Degas, who recognized her talent, took her as his pupil, provided her with contacts in the art world and facilitated her inclusion in the 1894 Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition.
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