The devil himself is at work in this tragicomic tale of a community near boiling point.

In November 2003, Fawcett prepared for her return to Broadway in a production of Bobbi Boland, the tragicomic tale of a former Miss Florida.

That's exactly what happened to Farrah Fawcett, who was starring in "Bobbi Boland," the tragicomic tale of a former Miss Florida.

Their doomed efforts provide Mr. Burrell with the material for his entertaining, tragicomic tale of scientific failure.

It is a tragicomic tale, cleanly translated by Patrick Camiller, and bleakly funny in parts.

At the center of Mr. Bayly's tragicomic tale is Trevor, the Everyman projectionist who is as economically bereft as the town itself.

The tragicomic tale tells the story of an investigator for a fictional Guinness Book of Records who travels to Superior, Nebraska to authenticate a record attempt involving a man eating a Boeing 747.

"I Vitelloni" ("The Loafers"), the third feature he directed, is an autobiographical tragicomic tale of five provincial youths who punctuate their aimless street life with pranks.

"Enemies" is particularly the tragicomic tale of a survivor named Herman Broder, played by Ron Silver, who discovers that he's an unintentional bigamist with every prospect of becoming an intentional polygamist.

T-Bones also sings "My Daddy Is an Astronaut," a tragicomic tale of his fatherless childhood believing that Buzz Aldrin is his dad.