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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Dark Screwball Link
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Dark Comedy Continues
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Friday, August 18, 2023
Desilu Drumpad and the All-Day Heart-On
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Sunday, August 6, 2023
Annals of Iconography: The Dark Center
At the National Comedy Center —
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Monday, June 29, 2020
Dark Comedy
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Perhaps another indication — De Palma's Body Double .
"Like a rose under the April snow . . . ." — Streisand
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
Welcome to Them
For the star of the recent film "Welcome to Me,"
a remark quoted here 12 years ago —
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Wednesday May 21, 2003
The 401 Club: Commentary on
yesterday’s “The Lottery Covenant”
and Monday’s “A Mighty Wind”
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies. But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies. And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication, there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
See also the dark screwball comedy starring Pat Robertson and Michael Eisner,
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