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"screwball" Definitions
  1. a person who you think is strange or crazy and funny

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It's like a screwball in that way, but a screwball gets its own category.
Our reviewer, Cathleen Schine, praised the novel as "a gently spiritual celebration of life, a dark and thoroughly grim depiction of despair, a screwball comedy, a screwball tragedy."
Gilmore Girls is a screwball comedy at heart, and screwball comedies almost always view hitting the financial jackpot as the best thing that could possibly happen to someone.
Tender and artful, Prose's 15th novel is a sophisticated satire, a gently spiritual celebration of life, a dark and thoroughly grim depiction of despair, a screwball comedy, a screwball tragedy.
There's an aura of screwball irreverence to the entire film.
In any case, Arroyo's screwball was especially fearsome in 1961.
Baseball's steroid scandal is the focus of sports documentary "Screwball."
And it's got a dash of screwball romantic comedy as well.
It actually looks, uh, like some kind of rollicking, screwball comedy?
Willis is operating in her favorite screwball-comedy mode in Crosstalk.
Perhaps — despite the novel's screwball tone — for mourning, personal and generational.
What's more, the kind of farcical screwball comedy that makes Mrs.
But Ms. Semple, diabolical screwball that she is, is just warming up.
" Brügger, by contrast, calls him "a goofy character from a screwball comedy.
"Screwball" premieres in theaters on March 29 and on demand on April 5.
Harry and Louise's early flirtation depends on a facility with wisecracking screwball style.
Maisel relies on those exact gender roles to make its screwball comedy go.
It attacks every piety in its purview — without ever losing its inimitable screwball charm.
Aronson has the look of a guy who can do a good screwball turn.
With a deadly aim, Braithwaite lobs jokes, japes and screwball comedy at the reader.
Below the movie's screwball shenanigans is a core of romanticism signaled in its soundtrack.
For the screwball grinches out there, this is the year you need to watch Scrooged.
And yes, maybe a little vanilla compared to the big screwball personalities that surround him.
Alison Brie summons the screwball as Lainey, his partner in deflowering, now a serial cheater.
By contrast, the movie felt liberating — a sort of screwball move on her own part.
Ginny's screwball goes off-kilter when she spots her ex-boyfriend on the opposing team.
Behold Ginny Baker, a screwball pitcher and the first woman to play Major League Baseball.
Blending screwball fizz and sticky melancholy, it basically invents a new genre: the noir sitcom.
That's how Gilmore Girls casts the classic screwball comedy story arc into a different light.
Her screwball "Pride and Prejudice," directed by Amanda Dehnert, is as frolicsome as her earlier efforts.
Some critics have applauded the movie's screwball comedy and overly salacious scenes, but others weren't impressed.
I started with that fast pace, like the screwball comedies, where the dialogue waits for no man.
Within a year, Valenzuela and his lethal screwball became the toast of Hollywood and Fernandomania was born.
This week, Rob has convinced Austin to watch one of his favorite screwball comedies, My Man Godfrey.
It makes a run at cleverness, trying to be a dark screwball commentary on America's race problem.
He pushed hard, leaning into the song's screwball-fusion vibe but maintaining a measured sense of swing.
The film shakes off superhero clichés, our critic writes, with touches of screwball comedy and romantic adventure.
It may look like a screwball, a slider here or there, but it'll get to you eventually.
Pennsylvania's "loophole primary" set the stage for weeks of screwball politicking -- and not just by the presidential candidates.
And one scene perfectly blends screwball romantic banter with time travel, which is a great sentence to type.
"Cherchez La Femme" is more screwball comedy than band saga, though Kid Creole fans will find familiar aspects.
Good luck finding anyone wearing stirrups, or throwing a screwball, or plowing over the catcher at the plate.
The finished product uses vomit, voyeurism and a scissor-stabbing as ingredients in the lightest of screwball confections.
It's a charming, empowering screwball comedy about workplace sexism and how to prove everyone wrong when you're underestimated.
And thus began the screwball story, spanning decades, mystifying everyone, of the patrician president and the impertinent reporter.
Watching enough screwball comedies can lead you to believe losing one's virginity will inevitably involve elaborate, wackadoo adventures.
Ms. Enos and Mr. Krause, both fine actors, don't really work as high-style, screwball-caper romantic leads.
The first act, in which Vera angles for a role, is in the style of a screwball comedy.
"Tricked" demonstrates how vomit, voyeurism and a scissor-stabbing can act as ingredients in the lightest of screwball confections.
Now she's playing Elizabeth Bennet in her own screwball adaptation of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," at the Cherry Lane.
Mlinko's volume aches with pain, but its tone sometimes suggests the screwball comedy or "merry war" of Shakespearean lovers.
Mr. Warth's background as a film editor proves useful when bouncing between screwball-speed dialogue and deadpan reaction shots.
Maybe what you need this holiday season is a devilishly clever mystery with even more devilishly clever screwball dialogue.
Cavell, as it happens, loved the Marx Brothers, as he generally did Golden Age Hollywood, particular in its screwball mode.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar is Mike Lawson, the team's star catcher, who isn't sure she has it, despite her wicked screwball.
Hear Ms. Byrne, Mr. O'Dowd and Mr. Peretz riff on the film's themes of screwball love and indie rock obsession.
Now, in her glittery, screwball second collection, McGlynn continues to play with the dark comedy afforded by this girly kitsch.
On Tuesday, the Tsar Maiden was Anastasia Matvienko, playing the role with a screwball combination of beauty and tearaway impulsiveness.
Anshai Lal's "Phillauri" is a Bollywood movie toggling between a contemporary screwball rom-com and a sweeping historical love story.
The screwball "Le Gorille de Niki" (266) is a charming homage to this wonderful artist, who was also Tinguely's wife.
Other books would mine the friction between Laura and Emma into wacky Odd Couple comedy or heartwarming Gilmore Girls screwball hijinks.
Director Peter Farrelly -- a name usually associated with screwball comedy -- appears to be an unlikely choice to oversee such an enterprise.
If this were a movie, it would be a hard-core NC-17, albeit one that keeps taking screwball-­comedy turns.
Ms. Bunbury's character, Ginny Baker, possesses a mediocre fastball but a fine screwball in an era when few can throw one.
Jane, her abuela Alba, and her mother, Xiomara, relax by watching telenovelas, just as the Gilmore girls once watched screwball comedies.
Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury) is a screwball pitcher, and she's poised to be the first woman to play Major League Baseball.
There's something occasionally mannered and artificial about his dialogue, which tends toward the screwball or the Socratic, depending on the moment.
It may be hyperbolic to describe the film "as a screwball 'Citizen Kane,'" Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
In Trump's screwball world, the president declares impeachment proceedings a witch hunt and Republicans on Capitol Hill take up the chant.
" Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 91% What critics said: "The second season of Amazon's subversive screwball comedy The Marvelous Mrs.
Rivera had the cutter, Koufax the fastball and curveball, and Mathewson was famous for his "fadeaway" — essentially a screwball — at big moments.
It has the pedantry of "The Newsroom," minus its screwball zest, and the sleekness of "The Good Wife," minus its canny wit.
Within commonplace settings she will insert both her sophisticated patterns alongside subtle screwball details, giving each work a bit of an edige.
Screwball comedies are typically populated by madcap socialites, irate plutocrats, plucky working girls, comic servants, idiotic lounge lizards and English-mangling foreigners.
Not long after this scene, Daniel Warth's "Dim the Fluorescents" evolves from a screwball roommate comedy to a melodrama about artistic frustration.
The fast talking is crucial to Gilmore Girls' whimsy and charm; it makes the show feel like a His Girl Friday screwball throwback.
One, involving the heist of a lemur, is like a Coen Brothers screwball caper; another is convincing "Lord of the Rings" high fantasy.
Claim to fame: Ms. Harrison is an actress, comedy writer and screwball performer who doesn't take her rising profile in Hollywood too seriously.
He helped establish the ground rules for entire genres, including the gangster film, the newspaper picture, the screwball comedy and postwar film noir.
Megan Ferguson brings the screwball-comedy vibe she showed in "The Comedians" to the role of a neighbor with an eye for Alex.
Though it, too, is rooted in ballet history, it is not quite like anything else: a screwball comedy that's also a hallucinatory dream.
"Screwball" was a massive success for Corben -- he used child actors to tell the unbelievable story about Alex Rodriguez and MLB's Biogenesis scandal.
Terence Davies wrote and directed "A Quiet Passion" (opening April 14), a biopic about Emily Dickinson that veers from screwball comedy to tragedy.
His father, Arthur, was a playwright whose screwball comedy "The Awful Truth" was made into a movie starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
Michael Parmelee/CBS The CBS series BrainDead, which aired last summer, is a bizarre mashup of gross-out horror, screwball comedy, and political satire.
Ginny hurling her screwball through the glass ceiling is as significant, it seems, as Robinson breaking the color barrier over half a century ago.
Since leaving New York for Hollywood more than a decade ago, Ms. Hahn, Yale School of Drama-trained and screwball-practiced, has worked steadily.
Hecht refined and subtilized the banter of the old screwball comedies into ironic japery, and Hitchcock directed with an unparalleled mastery of sexual tension.
There is no defamiliarization going on here that might offer other critical judgments besides regarding his screwball paintings as a form of anti-intellectualism.
But the series retains the screwball-vérité look established in the film by Clement and Waititi, combining naturalistic shaky-cam with exaggerated levitation effects.
Lipman's screwball romance is full of delightfully weird characters, from Faith's neo-hippie fiancé to her father, an amateur artist churning out Chagall copies.
With works from 1924 to 1998, from screwball comedy to thriller, it's like a lady-led walking tour through time and (our urban) space.
"So far all you've offered me is treason and coconuts," she quips, and for a moment "The Handmaid's Tale" becomes a dystopian screwball comedy.
The story I was working on kept offering up such moments: a captive audience — in increasingly screwball situations — with a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
My impressions at the time: That fast-talking style is fine for a 1940s screwball comedy, but after about five minutes, it's an overused gimmick.
Available on Mubi Plenty of screwball comedies from Hollywood's Golden Age are still beloved today, but this one from 1941 is all too often overlooked.
The 23-year-old has a mean screwball throw — which has earned her a reputation in the minor-league games before the show's pilot begins.
"Living in NYC can be a tortured melodrama, a grand romance, a horror movie, a screwball comedy — sometimes all in the same day," said Wells.
Screwball antics ensue, even though half of these people aren't women, don't get to wear the dress and yet still benefit from its unimagined powers.
Liquor brand Screwball Whiskey donated $235,2000, and Singani 265, owned by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (ironically, the director of the 2100 film Contagion) has donated $250,0003.
Mr. Gitter's "How My Grandparents Fell in Love" is a gorgeous high note to end on: a Jewish screwball romance set in Poland in 1933.
"Screwball," by contrast, brings a lighter touch and almost satirical approach to what's been described as the biggest illegal steroid scheme in pro sports history.
Billy Corben could have ANOTHER big baseball-themed documentary coming our way ... because the man behind "Screwball" is considering taking on the Houston Astros scandal.
Some accounts of Arroyo's career say he developed his screwball with the Yankees, though there is evidence that it was part of his repertoire much earlier.
As for "Screwball," Corben says he thinks Alex will actually enjoy the flick because he thinks the guy has a sense of humor about the situation.
But for the first few years that Pratt was on Twitter, it seemed he was begging America to keep believing the myth of his screwball villainy.
But the debate over whether the film is a statement of feminist empowerment or masochism — or whether Mr. Verhoeven has forged a new genre: screwball sadomasochism?
It's just that her wheelhouse is "giant-eyed woman who has been traumatized into silence"; in other words, the exact opposite of friendly, screwball Gilmore Girls.
Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis's Baby, I Don't Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.
Before calling it a night, swing by Taco Stand Anga, a screwball shack selling tacos, drinks and dagashi — penny-candy-like snacks — amid colorfully eclectic décor.
What I'd stumbled across helped me both practically and psychologically, and did it in a way that seemed endearingly screwball, rather than sad and mentally challenged.
Beauman's fourth novel is a kitchen-sink sendup of spy novels, 103s Hollywood and screwball newspaper comedies, with a pinch of Pynchon thrown in for fun.
Like a plucky Jean Arthur character in a '30s screwball comedy, Tur evolved into a seasoned campaign reporter and never let Trump get under her skin.
I can't remember the last time I had seen him so animated as he recounted a high school road trip gone awry with his screwball friends.
The second act, which shifts between a 2003 symposium, steeped in academese, and a 1973 talk show, steeped in gin, is more like a screwball tragedy.
Before Bunbury, 27, suits up and hits the diamond on Thursday night, here's everything you need to know about the actress behind the small screen's fastest screwball.
The movie is called "Screwball" -- a no-holds-barred look at Alex's role in the Biogenesis scandal, when several players were accused of using performance-enhancing drugs.
Her character throws a fastball but also relies on a novelty pitch: the screwball, the all-but-extinct weapon for stars from Christy Mathewson to Fernando Valenzuela.
In films like the screwball comedy "Easy Living" (1937), Pangborn's expert comedic chops "won hearts," according to Russo, despite — or thanks to — being in service of stereotypes.
As soon as Mr. Burns tells Smithers he has "24 hours" to get his nine ringers, the episode snaps, and the frenetic gags slip into light-speed screwball.
Rebecca Miller's new movie, "Maggie's Plan," is a screwball comedy, set in New York, about a young woman (Greta Gerwig) whose ditziness takes the form of hyper-rationality.
This accounts, in a philosophical sort of way, for de la Pava's explicit embrace of the principles of screwball comedy—specifically, its reliance on the idea of coincidence.
The book devotes a chapter apiece to the fastball, the curveball, the sinker, the slider, the cutter, the changeup, the splitter, the screwball, the knuckleball and the spitball.
What actually happens is that a murderous, bloody screwball plot happens in one house; just across the yard, a hollering crowd of angry racists threatens the Meyers' life.
So don't expect a gritty reboot starring Will Truman and Grace Adler as dystopian time detectives or whatever (as awesome as that screwball post-apocalyptic logline now sounds).
Archer's world is brimming with stiff drinks, mustache-twirling villains, grand dames and grateful heiresses, and its depraved inhabitants are always ready for some cheeky banter, screwball comedy-style.
The bigger heist plot even works like a more screwball Hell or High Water, calculated to take a little of the self-serious air out of that film's tires.
But her real legacy lies in harrowing a genre all her own: the feminist pulp novel, gory and romantic screwball stories frequently featuring two well-armed, pissed-off women.
" In this imagined future, "even romantic comedies would be staged under the sign of warming, as surely as screwball comedies were extruded by the anxieties of the Great Depression.
Critic's Notebook Viewing the Olympics through the prism of style can be a screwball proposition, since the pinnacle of sport is also pretty reliably the height of sartorial kitsch.
The original formula of "Tales of City" involved putting Linney's screwball-comedy energy as Mary Ann at the center of a sexed-up but fairly conventional soap opera plot.
In effect, censorship created plot, and in the process yielded one of the greatest of American film genres: thirties romantic comedy, including the dizzier versions celebrated as screwball comedy.
I come with no bias, no allegiance, no screwball theories as to how the series finale failed to rise to to the level of its previous seasons (as I've heard).
In short, he specialises in arch buddy movies in which two mismatched detectives drive around Los Angeles, uncovering sleazy criminal conspiracies, and interrupting their gun battles to trade screwball dialogue.
The French director Claire Denis's new film, "Let the Sun Shine In," about a middle-aged woman's romantic adventures, refracts personal experience in the form of a modernistic screwball comedy.
Who could dislike Bridget Jones, the zany screwball heroine whose latest and probably last screen incarnation, in "Bridget Jones's Baby," finds the character back where she started: alone and single?
The 1930s were the golden age for Oscar-nominated newspaper movies, albeit those in the screwball comedy vein — reporters were the heroes, but not exactly exemplars of the Fourth Estate.
"The Fault in Our Stars," which was simultaneously an implacable tragedy and a screwball comedy about two teenage cancer patients, was of a piece with everything Green has ever done.
"Runaways" does evince the Savage-Schwartz sparkle — the capacity for transmuting high-school schmaltz into screwball comedy — and perhaps it will do it just often enough to keep your interest.
Rebecca Miller's screwball comedy is "cleareyed, generous and funny — tart but not sour, sweet but not too sweet, like one of Guy's pickles," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
It's very often funny and very often quite sad, and masterfully sets a dreamy, screwball tone that allows the increasingly mad series of events to unfold with an implicit wink.
Woody Allen's latest movie throws an all-star cast — from Kristen Stewart to Blake Lively to Steve Carell — into 1930s Hollywood, where screwball romances and foiled Oscar campaigns reign supreme.
Emerging, in full "Tom and Jerry" style, from the floorboards, "Saw" is a clever, screwball nod to postminimal sculptors of the 1960s and 1970s monomaniacally intent on the circumscription of space.
We got Billy Corben (the guy behind the 2006 hit "Cocaine Cowboys") in New York promoting his new documentary, "Screwball" -- which is all about Alex Rodriguez and the Biogenesis steroid scandal.
But Crosstalk is pointed and specific about linking screwball humor and the world of social media, where users face a constant barrage of input, and a low signal-to-noise ratio.
Saints Row was the screwball GTA clone, and then Saints Row the Third pretty much captured the culture and humor of an entire generation in one weirdly heartwarming, profane cartoon epic.
"'Maggie's Plan' is a modest movie, reluctant, like its heroine, to make large claims or excessive demands," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times about Rebecca Miller's screwball comedy.
It's also horror, sci-fi, a screwball comedy and of course a reunion — one inflected bittersweetly by real-world deaths (including Catherine E. Coulson, Warren Frost, Miguel Ferrer and David Bowie).
Some of the film's hectic appeal came from the screwball script and some from its look—extraordinarily bright Pop-art sets that were filmed in a superwide format that echoed CinemaScope.
Even die-hard Clint Eastwood fans may wince when reminded that some time between the third and fourth "Dirty Harry" movies, their hero starred in two screwball comedies opposite an orangutan.
In this warmly funny novel, the children's innocent ideas about men (they "loved fires and omelets and needed constant snacks") lead to their screwball plan for inviting the locals to come courting.
Travis, I've spent much of yesterday trying to understand if it was you or Benchmark Capital who threw the latest screwball into SoftBank's attempts to launch a tender offer for Uber shares.
Like Veronica Lake in "I Married a Witch" (1942), Carole Lombard in her screwball heyday, and Lauren Bacall in pretty much anything, Blunt requires an exceptionally good reason not to be amused.
It would have been tempting for Cardi to try and temper her screwball image with something "serious," but she's savvy enough to know that her music exists beyond the fun/serious binary.
The show careens between genres, at once an office sitcom, a police procedural and a screwball romance between the stylish assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) and the unlikely spy Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh).
The show struggles to find its signature screwball pacing, and it can't figure out how to circle around emotions without addressing them face on, as the earlier seasons did at their best.
The resulting film, helmed by director Janicza Bravo and cowritten by Bravo and Jeremy O'Harris, is part screwball comedy and part disturbing roller coaster, featuring forced sex work and a possible murder (?).
Although Goldberg acknowledges that she is a workaholic who spends much of her time thinking about men who cause women "irreparable misery," she maintains the bright, squiggly demeanor of a screwball heroine.
That sequence is played for unexpected laughs by Baumbach, who has said that he wanted "Marriage Story" to contain elements of screwball comedy as well as classic domestic drama and tough legal procedurals.
Film Series Even die-hard Clint Eastwood fans may wince when reminded that some time between the third and fourth "Dirty Harry" movies, their hero starred in two screwball comedies opposite an orangutan.
It is half of a quirky doubleheader with Giacomo Puccini's screwball comedy "Gianni Schicchi," about a schemer who steals a dead man's fortune, seen in Woody Allen's Los Angeles Opera production from 2008.
Amid all the self-help efforts, witchblr frequently congregates to decide what to do about President Trump, with posters offering screwball suggestions, real curses, and commiseration over the fact that they've failed so far.
From there, he would make all manner of comedies: subversive (the Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup"); patriotic ("Ruggles of Red Gap," with Charles Laughton); and screwball ("The Awful Truth," with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant).
The two starred together in Green's iPhone-shot, ketamine-fueled "screwball tragedy" The Wrong Ferrari, and recently acted together again in Green's latest film, a psychedelic interpretation of Aladdin comprised entirely of papier-mache.
" And don't miss my colleague Maureen Dowd's much-discussed account of her relationship with Bush — or, she calls it, "the screwball story, spanning decades, mystifying everyone, of the patrician president and the impertinent reporter.
When 'Something Wild' is dealing with the burgeoning relationship between the once-uptight Charlie and the sweetly desperate, near-alcoholic Audrey, the film has the manner of a screwball comedy designed for the 1980s.
More screwball than "Thunderball," this comedic spy series pairs an emotional, fresh-off-a-breakup F.B.I. agent (Scott Foley) with a by-any-means-necessary C.I.A. operative (Lauren Cohan) in a joint task force.
What's written on the page, in all its screwball and vaudevillian glory, can be quite overwhelming to the reader, making the choice, as their eyes focus on text or image or design, tricky and exciting.
He eventually became a six-time All-Star and so influential that the former Dodgers pitcher Jim Brewer would travel to the club's minor league affiliates and teach the screwball, Mets Manager Terry Collins said.
Everyone else — including the characters from the 1936 screwball comedy "My Man Godfrey," seen briefly on Michael's hotel room TV — has more or less the same face and speaks with the voice of Tom Noonan.
If she is part vengeful goddess—sending ill-prepared men into dangerous combat in order to spite her handful of peers—she is equally a cheerful amalgam of every screwball-comedy/sports-movie cliché ever.
"The Coens, bless their hearts, are too smart to apologize for avarice — it's what gave screwball comedies a kick, and sends this movie straight to your head," Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times.
" And The Washington Post called Cavell "a onetime jazz pianist who traded music for philosophy but maintained an abiding interest in the arts, mining screwball comedies, Shakespearean dramas and postwar 'new music' for philosophical insights.
But in Mr. Richie — who'll join Ms. Perry and the country dreamboat Luke Bryan at the judges' table beginning on March 19883 — the show may have found an ideal counterweight for Ms. Perry's screwball enthusiasm.
American Made plays out like a madcap screwball comedy with an edge, and the funniest recurring jokes have to do with Seal being so loaded with cash he literally has nowhere to store it all.
As a bonus, he's the only one of Lorelai's temporary boyfriends who is also interesting to watch (sorry, Max Medina, Billy Burke), and he knows exactly how to deliver Sherman-Palladino's breakneck screwball banter. 22.
The brash energy of Warner Brothers pictures, the extravagant unreality of MGM's, the exotic shimmer of Paramount's, the screwball fizz of Columbia's — all were identifiable enough to reveal the moguls as the true creative arbiters.
" The synchronization with music and narrative is evident in "Something Wild" (21987), a "really screwball" comedy, as Pauline Kael of The New Yorker described it, that "breaks conventions and turns into a scary slapstick thriller.
In search of answers, I suddenly recalled My Fellow Americans, a 1996 screwball comedy that stars Jack Lemmon and James Garner as two ex-presidents, Kramer and Douglas, from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.
It's never clear why Joel is still so present in the story, beyond the oft-teased reconciliation between him and Midge (which would, to be fair, be well within the screwball roots of the show).
Though the delightfully weird "Textmergency" — featuring ghost Steve Jobs, naturally — is perhaps more representative of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's screwball strengths, Bloom's titanic performance on "You Stupid Bitch" cemented the show's deserved reputation for being truly fearless.
Of course, that plot description only scratches at the surface of this screwball comedy about modern love that has been making the rounds on the film festival circuit en route to U.S. theaters on May 20.
Elizabeth McKenzie, luckily for us, is one such writer, and her third novel makes a screwball comedy of truly unlikely stuff (including, but not limited to: consumerism, pragmatism, parental narcissism, premarital jitters, mental illness, Big Pharma).
A deceptively hard-throwing right-hander, she threw a fastball, slider, circle change, screwball and curveball, for which she received pointers from the Negro leagues great Satchel Paige, she told The New York Times in 2010.
What made it less daunting was the fact that he could still imagine the voice of his old mentor guiding him, making edits, pushing Gray to keep the text light with a screwball sense of humor.
And the 1978 Superman film drew inspiration from the adult humor of 1930s fast-talking screwball comedies, with Clark Kent / Superman (Christopher Reeve) and hard-nosed reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) exchanging witty quips between super-flights.
The best parts of Broad City come not when these outsiders toss out a screwball line or two, but when the show's supporting cast returns, like beloved old sweaters pulled out of a flea market bargain bin.
Demme's star rose in the '80s with a string of pitch-perfect zany comedies, which captured the freewheeling feel of the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s and '40s as well as anything had since that era.
Still, part of the screwball appeal of these Clippers is that they seem like a squad that could have been built all at once, with a checklist of needs, limitless resources, and a little too much zeal.
Cary Grant himself spent years as a somewhat boring, slightly slimy nothingburger before his studio pinned him as a dapper screwball comedian; Clark Gable was marketed as a high-society ladies' man before he became a swarthy outdoorsman.
The assistant duo concocts a scheme reminiscent of the ones found in screwball comedies like It Happened One Night: Harper and Charlie decide to set up their bosses so they can benefit with an ounce more free time.
Mimi Banning, the reclusive writer at the center of its plot, explains to her new assistant, Alice Whitley, that her 9-year-old son, Frank, was once obsessed with gangster epics but has "moved on" to screwball comedies.
As he's cycled through genres—screwball comedy, black comedy, thriller, and now melodrama—the unifying theme of his films has been that contempt is the necessary byproduct of love, whether among a family or between friends or lovers.
"Twentieth Century" was one of the movies that set the template for a new genre, the screwball romantic comedy, with its sparring lovers issuing taunts and epigrams—verbal mayhem that brushed aside the sentimental tone of conventional entertainment.
The men in the story exist to be fooled with, fended off, or duped: the same rules of engagement that apply in screwball comedy, though the setting is the English court at the start of the eighteenth century.
Robert Zemeckis's 230 screwball toon-crime caper is often credited with kick-starting animation's second golden age of the late '22s/early '90s, with its blockbuster success — and unprecedented conglomeration of famous animated properties from Disney, Warner Bros.
Meanwhile, TV became the home of certain types of comedies and dramas that struggled to gain footholds on the big screen — why go to a theater to watch a screwball comedy revival when you could just watch Cheers?
The Metrograph places the kinky eroticism of Nagisa Oshima's 5053 "Pleasures of the Flesh" (Monday and Wednesday) alongside Howard Hawks's 1941 screwball comedy "Ball of Fire" (Tuesday and Wednesday) and Rouben Mamoulian's 1932 musical "Love Me Tonight" (Wednesday).
Instead, what we got was the rare season finale that could legitimately be described as a game-changer, vaulting the show from a daffy screwball comedy to something darker, much stranger, and uncomfortably appropriate for our apocalyptic era.
Early in the process of the reshoots that led to Swing Shift's ultimately maligned theatrical cut, legendary comedy writer and director Elaine May was brought in to punch up the movie's script and add more screwball comedy energy.
It's been a decade since the first Zombieland, the beloved screwball action horror comedy about people trying to outrun zombies after the apocalypse, which brought together some fantastic talent, including Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Abigail Breslin.
In the introduction, celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a cameo appearance to laud this obscure 1938 movie that predicted the future with eerie accuracy — actually, a modern production in the style of a '30s screwball sci-fi comedy.
At the center of it all is Bunbury's Ginny Baker, who, thanks to her father (Michael Beach) learned how to uncork a wicked screwball, a pitch designed to compensate for any deficiency in arm strength relative to the guys.
The show's pivot from disjointed screwball comedy to more intricate narrative work was sudden, and the second half's developments reaffirmed my belief that the show's characters are more complicated and adaptable than those you'd find in a traditional sitcom.
Poised somewhere between a Hitchcockian thriller like "North by Northwest" and a classic screwball comedy, Donen's wildly entertaining play on the spy movie is a Technicolor bauble that feels aligned with the emerging spirit of the French New Wave.
You have the feeling that they are as harebrained as what is going on beside them — that this situation would fit in to one Buster Keaton's outlandish films or a screwball comedy that Carole Lombard starred in the 1930s.
Runtime: one hour Debuted: Thursday, September 22, at 9 pm on Fox The best broadcast network drama pilot of the fall opens this cheesy series about the first woman to join Major League Baseball, as a pitcher with a wicked screwball.
One screwball sequence takes place in Bushwick, where a feminist resistance group bubbles with racial anxiety, to the point that a white member sneaks off to the kitchen and, going through her Instagram contacts, begins panic-inviting women of color.
A remnant from the alluring era of screwball comedies and film noir, Lace was never a major star, but she left some potentially incendiary letters about "drunk leading men" and "promiscuous married ingénues" under the floorboards of her Tennessee home.
A New York gal-about-town takes her soon-to-be stepsister, a college freshman rejected by a prestigious literary society, on a madcap misadventure in Noah Baumbach's screwball comedy, which he wrote with Greta Gerwig, who stars with Lola Kirke.
Wearing the uniform of the counterculture — jeans and Birkenstocks — we were overcome by a collective nostalgia for the world depicted in 1930s films: its satin glamour and debonair elegance, its screwball logic and lightning repartee, its catchy tunes and corny lyrics.
This kid can eye-roll, wear 103 patterns at the same time, deeply develop what's usually the funny-gay-best-friend sidepiece and supersonically deliver line readings like he's been acting since the screwball era (he has not; Gatwa is 27).
Around the corner is where she had a falafel with Luke Jennings, the author of the novellas she would adapt into "Killing Eve," a spy thriller that is secretly a screwball romance between an intelligence operative and a psychopathic assassin.
He checks in at the office with his boss (Zachary Quinto), engages in energetic screwball banter with his erstwhile assistant, Samantha (Zazie Beetz) and argues dialectics and family-leave policy with Myra (Sonja Sohn), the head of the player's association.
He followed it with the serviceable but uninspired period sports movie/screwball comedy homage Leatherheads, and then the well-acted but dull and predictable political thriller The Ides of March, which gave way to the lifeless WWII globe-trotter The Monuments Men.
Created by Grace Bruxner (an indie developer best known for smaller games) and a tiny team of contributors, the adventure begins with our Frog Detective getting a call from their boss, presented in a stylized shot-reverse-shot style reminiscent of screwball comedies.
The fact that Leo moves in with Stephanie, a former agent for Bea who now wants nothing to do with her, is just one more screwball but sugary plot twist here — in a book guaranteed not to spoil anybody's day, anywhere, ever.
The first (and best) in what would become a successful franchise, "The Thin Man" (1934) is Hollywood screwball comedy at its most sophisticated: Everybody looks great in evening wear, cracks wise, and downs staggering amounts of alcohol while keeping their wits about them.
Lara Jean's retro fixation reaches its peak when she volunteers at Belleview, a retirement home with fortune tellers, posh soirees and a former Pan Am flight attendant named Stormy (Holland Taylor) lording over the palm-frond fantasia like a screwball grande dame.
He may have a gift for screwball comedy, but Green has always had a serious streak too, and this book, his first since "The Fault in Our Stars," is his most personal and serious yet — more Paul Thomas Anderson than Wes Anderson.
How a newbie journalist becomes a confident foreigner-gone-native When the New York Times' Michiko Kakutani reviewed The Taliban Shuffle back in 2011, she described Barker as "a sort of Tina Fey character," due to the book's screwball humor and wry, colorful stories.
In his book "Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage," Cavell unpacked a particular strain of Hollywood screwball comedy in which a man and a woman who are at each other's throats wind up in love (or back in love) by the end.
Each has had to navigate the intricacies of Mr. Lucas's sprawling fiction while handling the deep imprint created by Darth Vader's heavy-breathing menace, R2-D2's amusing beeps, Mr. Ford's insouciance, Mr. Hamill's earnestness, and Ms. Fisher's smarts and latter-day screwball charm.
Some of the best Todd moments are pure screwball in the Three Stooges sense, whether it's him and Mr. Peanutbutter scrambling to catch a ringing phone through a series of rooms like they're running through a Super Mario level, or him trying to wrangle terrifying dentist clowns.
When asked about her career, which includes major successes on stage and on screen in films like "A Woman Under the Influence" and "Opening Night," her responses take the form of screwball anecdotes imbued with an aw-shucks innocence suggestive of her Midwestern roots: Things just happened.
From a box.) The naturally likable Ms. Kunis, who has a screwball heroine's springiness and the eyes of Bambi under fire, helps humanize the story's mechanical turns, as do her gal pals, the neurotic, overachieving Kiki (Kristen Bell) and the sexed-up slacker Carla (Kathryn Hahn).
What's really entertaining about it is the screwball comedy of watching poor Joe trying to keep all of his plates spinning — to stay one step ahead as his lies get harder to keep track of and his regretful but necessary killings become harder to cover up.
Maisel were merely a show that gave Sherman-Palladino free rein to play in her screwball sandbox, its chronicle of Midge's double life of maintaining a perfect home while perfecting a 10-minute comedy set in dark clubs with Susie would be a perfectly amusing watch.
The film, starring Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser, was an unexpected cultural phenomenon, merging the mummy's adventure and horror roots into a new Indiana Jones–esque hybrid: It was a screwball comedy, an action adventure, and a horror movie — a modern pulp narrative that audiences loved.
Maisel that understands that Midge can embark on a standup career on a whim because she's a child of wealth and privilege, and Sherman-Palladino has always understood that screwball comedy is most effective when it simultaneously presents a funhouse mirror reflection of the American class system.
Acting alongside George Clooney in Clooney's 2008 football screwball comedy Leatherheads and Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's 2012 fracking drama Promised Land, Krasinski's played variations on the beloved golden boy as secret villain, and in weaponizing his aw-shucks air, managed to be more intriguing than the stars.
Luis Arroyo, a stoutly built left-hander with a baffling screwball who was an All-Star in each major league, pitched in two World Series and as a reliever helped Whitey Ford achieve his finest season with the Yankees, died on Wednesday in Guayanilla, P.R. He was 453.
Strictly as a matter of casting, it's also a reminder that Cranston -- after his descent into the dark side in "Breaking Bad" -- possesses a gift for screwball comedy dating back to his "Malcolm in the Middle" days, while Franco has an image-spoofing knack for playing creepy and weird.
It's easy to imagine this year's meeting playing out as scenes from a very dark screwball comedy: Trump tries to shake a gaggle of allies whom he has called deadbeats, in order to persuade Erna Solberg, the Prime Minister of Norway, to send more white people to America.
We've been here before — when her father makes her learn the screwball by throwing nectarines, when her major league catcher gives her a midgame inspirational speech on the mound, when ownership tells her manager that he can't send her back down to the minors because it would look bad.
Mr. Hiller, who for a time was one of Hollywood's most commercially potent directors, piloted nearly 70 feature films, television movies and series episodes in a wide range of genres, from the Holocaust drama "The Man in the Glass Booth" (1975) to the screwball comedy "The In-Laws" (1979).
"When I started at IBM, I was looked at as a screwball: 'Yeah, he wants to play around with computers,' " Mr. Bloch said last year in an interview with AtBuffalo, the alumni magazine of the State University of New York at Buffalo, as the university is now known.
Helen Fielding's 1996 novel, "Bridget Jones's Diary," showed that it was possible to lift Austen's story line and create a funny contemporary novel about a spirited young woman in search of love, while reminding us that "Pride and Prejudice" was one of the original screwball comedy/romcom templates.
Lear's limericks are a screwball assemblage of people (often an Old Man or Old Person) from places with names that make for satisfyingly clanking rhymes (Ischia, Portugal, Moldavia) doing things like dressing in a sack, drinking hot beer or falling off a horse and being mended with glue.
It's a strong, well-regarded group, ranging from historical dramas (1917, The Irishman) to critical darlings (Marriage Story, Parasite) to crowd pleasers (Joker, Little Women, Ford v Ferrari) to movies that meld the dark and the screwball in equal measure (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Jojo Rabbit).
Imagine "A Clockwork Orange" as a screwball comedy, and you would be pretty close to Bertrand Blier's "Going Places" (on Friday, Tuesday, Thursday and March 16), which stars Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as thugs who drift across France stealing money and cars and assaulting women, usually without consequence.
The classic Hollywood screwball comedies were very class conscious — usually by placing a poor wastrel in the same room as a rich heir or heiress — but they very often featured stories where the real victory was a poor or middle-class person convincing some rich person to marry them.
The classic scavenger hunt still exists today, of course, but it's doubtful many of them are quite the way they were in their 1930s heyday, when New York socialites conducted such outlandish ones that they were lampooned in the 1936 screwball comedy "My Man Godfrey," starring William Powell and Carole Lombard.
According to food writer Fiona Ross in her book, Dining with the Famous and Infamous, the renowned screwball surrealist Salvador Dalí fancied his protégée and muse Amanda Lear so much that he'd showcase his love for the woman he said "had a beautiful skull" by sharing with her bowls of cold fruit soup.
Hitting theaters before Major League Baseball begins, meanwhile, is "Screwball," director Billy Corben's look at the use of performance-enhancing drugs, zeroing in on the 2014 scandal -- almost comical in its details and scope -- that swept up a number of players, including the year-long suspension of then-Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.
Ragnarok might change that and breathe new life into the Thor franchise with some major star power in the form of Blanchett; Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as Marvel's best bad guy, Loki; a rumored appearance by Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange; and the screwball weirdness of incorporating the Hulk into a Shakespearean superhero world.
A "screwball comedy," Trading Places pits Akyroyd's uppity/educated twi against Murphy's street hustler until they realize they're being manipulated by the nefarious and ultra-rich commodities trading firm-owning fat cat Duke Brothers, who place a bet about the two they believe will finally settle the age old debate about nature versus nurture.
Anderson has worked in a variety of genres — noir, screwball comedy, historical epic, and straight-up relationship drama — but his films always bear his distinctive fingerprints: sharply drawn characters (some of whom are uneasily at odds with the world around them); a sense of humor filtered through dark situations; and a stable of actors with whom he works regularly.
But when you get beyond the premise — Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury), a minor leaguer who throws in the high 80s and has a highly effective screwball, gets called up by the San Diego Padres to make a start — you'll find that "Pitch" is a highly conventional sports tale, a fastball down the middle rather than a darting curve.
Almost every line in the book — except the ones that refer directly to poetry, or that employ four-letter words that would never have been permitted under the Hayes Code — sounds like it could have been lifted from the hard-boiled repartee from some detective flick of the '40s or '50s, or else one of the tougher screwball comedies.
" No. 251 Lima, Peru "This screwball fantasy — interwoven with a realistic tale of an improbable romance — is the Peruvian novelist Vargas Llosa's homage to two people who gave shape to his artistic and personal life during his adolescence: an ascetic Bolivian who all day, every day, wrote scripts for radio soap operas, and the author's Aunt Julia.
The screwball banter from characters like Han Solo and Princess Leia — or Rey and Finn, for that matter — is so essential to what we think of as "Star Wars," so it's hard not to feel like something's amiss when those kind of exchanges never materialize, or when the darker tone never gives way to the Flash Gordon-style adventure we've grown accustomed to.
With her precision timing, mobile face of a screwball heroine, and big mane of curls, she takes up space in the best way — too big a presence to be folded neatly in the slot of character actor she's been defaulted to, yet apparently too unconventional to be considered for the spotlight, no matter how much it seems to be calling.
There are plenty of people in their 70s and 80s, but there are almost as many in their 20s and 30s, and many of them are racing into movies made 70 or 80 years before they were born, enjoying silent films with a live organist, or laughing along with some screwball comedy that was buried in a studio vault for decades.
To be fair, it's still the greatest series HBO has ever made—even if that fifth season took the naturalistic series and pushed it deep into screwball territory, complete with ragged cop Jimmy McNulty's bonkers fake serial killer that feels more like some drunk dream he had after passing out with Bunk at the train tracks than an actual Wire narrative.
Queer communities of color are lovingly given space in We Can't Even, from Barry Jenkins' 63 Best Picture winner Moonlight, to Wu Tsang's 2012 first-person trans nightlife documentary Wildness, to Aurora Guerrero's sweet 2012 Chicana teen romance Mosquita y Mari, to Sean Baker's 2015 breakthrough neo-screwball Tangerine (made with significant input from trans women of color, including delightful stars Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor).
Another was written by Sam and Bella Spewack, who also co-wrote the 1940 screwball comedy "My Favorite Wife," and it involves the usual staples of comic mayhem—mistaken identity, crooks, and so on—as well as a director and his muse who are at odds with each other until they realize what they have and have had all along: a shared creativity that heightens their love.
Or, perhaps, you were a bit younger than the intended demographic, but had a cool older sister or babysitter to clue you into the glories of all things MK & A. While we might be a bit fuzzy on the flicks' PG-rated screwball sister-act plot lines, we certainly remember fawning over the matching ensembles Mary-Kate and Ashley wore both on-screen and in their adorable red carpet appearances.
Other greats in FilmStruck's catalog include François Truffaut's sweet and graceful "Stolen Kisses," a 22012 picture in which Jean-Pierre Léaud, as the Truffaut alter-ego Antoine Doinel, tentatively pursues the lovely Claude Jade, but is intrigued by an older woman, Delphine Seyrig, and Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday" (1940), starring Cary Grant as a newspaper editor who pursues his ex-wife and former star reporter, Rosalind Russell, in frantic, eccentric screwball-comedy style.
They tempered their street-rap sensibilities with screwball lyrical flourishes in the vein of Gucci Mane, and they also turned repetition into its own art form, yelling the names of cultural symbols so many times in a row that familiar proper nouns began to take on new meaning: "Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana," goes one song named for Miley Cyrus's famous Disney Channel character, a term that doubles as drug slang.
In 2014, hackers penetrated Sony's computer systems, distributing emails that embarrassed senior corporate officials, apparently in response to Sony's release of The Interview, a screwball comedy about an assassination attempt against Kim Jong Un. Read: North Korea's plan to close its nuclear test site isn't denuclearization Clapper later told a conference in New York that he sat down to dinner with Kim Yong Chol, who he said had signed off on the Sony hack.
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Maisel' Where to watch: Amazon Major nominations: Best comedy series, best lead actress in a comedy series (Rachel Brosnahan), best supporting actress in a comedy series (Alex Borstein), best supporting actor in a comedy series (Tony Shalhoub), best guest actress in a comedy series (Jane Lynch), best directing for a comedy series (Amy Sherman-Palladino), best writing for a comedy series (Amy Sherman-Palladino) The creator Amy Sherman-Palladino ("Gilmore Girls") is one of a small handful of television writers whose voice is instantly recognizable — fast and quippy, with a gift for stylized dialogue that recalls Old Hollywood screwball comedies.

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