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• n  a whimsically eccentric person
• n  a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
• s  foolish; totally unsound
  a screwball proposal without a prayer of working

• Good screwball, nice sinker, not much heat.
• Directed by fear, I started to write the script myself, a story more 80s screwball comedy than James Bond.
• The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out .

• crackpot
• crank
• nut
• nut case
• fruitcake
• crazy
• half-baked
• softheaded

News & Articles

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• Best Bets
  Film New This Week: This Is the End (*** out of four stars) James Franco is throwing a housewarming, and Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and a swarm of real-life celebs are partying hearty when something like the apocalypse rains down on them. A devilishly demented, psychoactive screwball comedy in which dozens of coddled celebs meet their maker. R (profanity, nudity, sex, violence, adult ...
  June 16, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Happy anniversary to 'Bringing Up Baby'
  The screwball classic starring Kathrine Hepburn,  Cary Grant, and a leopard improbably named Baby (well, its real name was Nissa, and it was an eight-year veteran of the movie business) turns 75 this year. It premiered on Valentine’s Day of 1938 — and was, astonishingly, a box-offic
  June 14, 2013 - Seattle Times
• Pedro Almodovar's raunchy 'I'm So Excited!' satirizes Spain
  By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar's latest film "I'm So Excited!" is a raunchy screwball comedy that the Oscar-winning director said marks a return to his roots as a satirist even as it delivers biting commentary on modern-day Spain. The Spanish-language movie, which opens the Los Angeles Film Festival on Thursday and will be on limited release in U.S ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Woody Austin in USA Today
  Obviously the water thing is just going to add to my legacy,said Austin, who didn't start playing regularly on the Tour until he was 30 and has two wins. "I'm the screwball no matter what. It's just been the greatest week. I talked to the...
• George Clooney in Essex Echo
  Speaking at a press conference earlier, Clooney said of his latest film: "I'm a big fan of the old screwball comedies."
• Pete Carroll in SportingNews.com
  It's been awesome to have him,Carroll said. "This is a great story, kid from right down the street in Inglewood, and I've told him a lot he was a screwball when he was coming out. It took him about a semester, and he jumped on the academic...