Brian doesn’t flame and he is convincing. Hal and Scott Lowell just don’t look comfortable in their parts - especially Hal Sparks. He seems to be reciting his lines in his head the whole time and then blurts out the line when he hears his cue. The love scenes with him are almost painful to watch he’s so stiff - and not in the right way.
Scott Lowell. his website he mentions a play he’s written about John Wilkes Booth (in which he hopes to one day star); since I’ve written some fiction about him as well I’d love to read it.
I had wondered. For somebody who got his start in stand-up he’s not particularly witty so I’d wondered why he was always on those shows. (Between him, Mo Rocca and Michael Ian Black, the sarcasm and smug factor of those shows is almost fatal.)
. . . Of course, one could say the same about the Eighties . . .
True, but the 80s also gave us Punky Brewster and Smurfs , so as Edmund Spenser once observed
"Thou taketh the good,
thou taketh the bad
thou taketh them both
and there hath thou
the facts that are of life."
The Smurfs go back beyond the 80s. Smurfs made their first appearance in a story of Johan & Peewit in “Le Journal de Spirou” on October 23, 1958.
There are paintings of Punky Brewster and Brandon on the caves at Lascaux. (They were made by my cousin Norman during a 1989 visit there, but they’re there nonetheless.)