daffy

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Phil Dixon, co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and author of the book “The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour: Race, Media, and America’s National Pastime,” said in an interview that baseball wanted to keep the Hall of Fame segregated, the way the sport itself had been.

From Washington Post

But at least James Marsden, here reprising his role as Andalasia’s daffy King Edward, gets a laugh every time he tosses his hair.

From New York Times

Instead director Jim McBride, who co-wrote the script with Jack Baran, “ends up simply satirizing the argyle innocence and daffy exuberance of the ’50s,” according to The Times’ review.

From Los Angeles Times

A gravedigger fights a coffin — the coffin of the late King Hamlet, who died under mysterious circumstances — into the ground in a long sequence of daffy physical comedy set to a swelling barrage of percussion, strings and guitar.

From New York Times

The new cast includes Aubrey Plaza, Theo James and Tom Hollander with one familiar face: Jennifer Coolidge is reprising her Emmy Award-winning role as the daffy heiress Tanya McQuoid.

From New York Times