Tomlin, Lily (1939—)
Lily Tomlin, a gifted comedienne, writer, and actress, emerged on American television in the early 1970s as a featured performer on the highly innovative and successful com...
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Critical Essay by Amy Gross
[Lily Tomlin's] operating, more and more, from a comic perspective she discovered, and from there, things are not so much funny ha-ha as funny amazing. Watching her...
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Critical Essay by David Felton
When we caught Lily recently at the Boarding House, in orange overalls and black turtleneck, without costumes or props, we were introduced to at least five strange char...
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Critical Essay by Tracy Young
Lily Tomlin's career, thus far, straddles a decade. It is not a specific, chronological decade like the fifties or sixties, but rather an amorphous period of cult...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Stone
Lily Tomlin's humor is a victory of the comic spirit in a world closer to [Jonathan] Swift's than to [George] Meredith's, as her … one-wo...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Takiff
Lily Tomlin is that rare creature who can make you laugh and cry, almost simultaneously. She is not so much comedienne as impressionist, or better yet, social observ...
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Critical Essay by Richard L. Coe
Lily Tomlin is more than a comedienne. Whereas Alice went "Through the Looking Glass" to find a topsy-turvy but delightful world, Lily breaks through th...
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Critical Essay by Peter Buckley
[Tomlin's] more than a comedienne, she's a clown….
A carefully constructed pyramid of wit and wisdom, [Tomlin's humor is] by and for the...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Holden
On Stage [is] more than just a recorded stage show; it's a self-sufficient album comparable to the best of the Firesign Theater. (p. 93)
The bulk of the alb...
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Critical Essay by Lester Bangs
"On Stage" is a recording of highlights from [Appearing Nitely], and it reveals both Tomlin's virtuosity and her limitations….
Appearing ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Ward
The thread that weaves through all of Tomlin's work is a great respect for her inventions. [Tomlin] never condescends to even the most absurd of her characters. A...
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Critical Essay by James Wolcott
Modern Scream (great title: movie-mag trashiness crossed with primal therapy) is not the usual recorded-live-stage-show-comedy album, as Lily Tomlin's first two...
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Critical Essay by Ellen Cohn
What [Tomlin's] unique perspective has given us is a repertory of nearly 20 characters ranging from a cheeky adenoidal 5 1/2-year-old named Edith Ann to Sister Boo...
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Critical Essay by Lynn Van Matre
I've found Tomlin funny and perceptive at times in the past; her Ernestine the operator routine, which she did not reprise has sent me into hysterics. But I ha...
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Critical Essay by Elliot Norton
Miss Tomlin is a SATIRIST, and a genius. She mocks her own generation in somewhat the same way that Jules Feiffer does. She puts them on the stage, and "puts th...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
The important thing about Miss Tomlin—and the lady is very important—is that she defines her generation and her time. She is the Anti-Establishment Establ...
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Critical Essay by Jack Kroll
Tomlin's Broadway show ["Appearing Nitely"] may well be a crossroads in one of the most extraordinary careers in our popular culture…. [Tomlin...
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Critical Essay by Brendan Gill
[The occasion of Lily Tomlin's Broadway début with "Appearing Nitely"] is a personal triumph on a scale not unlike that of, say, Alexander s...
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Critical Essay by Ross Wetzsteon
[Lily Tomlin's] cult says she identifies so deeply with her characters she becomes them, but I feel she identifies so deeply with her characters she ignores us...
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Billy Crystal will be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.He's the 10th recipient of the award, given annually by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It'll be presented ...
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Director David O. Russell has become known for arousing actors’ ire—George Clooney’s alleged fisticuffs on the Three Kings set; Lily Tomlin’s widely circulated outbursts dur...
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As a swirling mix of family, actors, directors and producers remembered Robert Altman in a Manhattan service Tuesday, the overlapping, communal atmosphere reminded more than a few of the kind of sc...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Sharp-witted comedian Billy Crystal is to be
awarded the coveted Mark Twain Prize for American Humour, it was
announced Tuesday.
The star ...
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Today is Saturday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2007. There are 121 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.On this date:...
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The past few weeks have been especially good for online video. Here's a grab bag of recent highlights:SEVEN MINUTE SOPRANOSTo prepare yourself for the return of "The Sopranos," which begins its fin...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Television talent show American Idol raised
more than 30 million dollars for charities in Africa and the US in a
special edition entitled Idol Gives Back...
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Some excerpts from Fred Thompson's correspondence from 1994 to 2002, which is stored in the archives at the University of Tennessee:_Jack Valenti, the late longtime CEO and president of the Motion ...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 1:Aug. 26: Singer Vic Dana is 65. Singer Valerie Simpson of Ashford and Simpson is 61. Singer Bob Cowsill of The Cowsills is 58. Bandleader Branfor...
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Tomlin, Lily (1939—)
Critical Essay by Amy Gross
Billy Crystal to get Mark Twain prize
