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	Double act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When a woman is in the "straight man" role, she is more often referred to as a comic foil.
		Sometimes, it is the straight man who gets the laughs through his or her sarcastic reactions to the comic's antics.
		In its British form, the two actors would usually be comprised of a "straight man" or "feed" and a "comic", the purpose of the feed being to set up jokes for the comic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Double_act (1260 words)

	Straight man - The TV IV
		A straight man (or comic foil, to include women) is the person in a comedy who is serious, reasonable or simply normal.
		The term derives from vaudeville and its comic duos, in which the straight man was distinguised from the "comic", who would be the bizarre, foolish or funny character.
		In many comedies, the straight man is confused and even outraged by the actions going on around him or her, while in others, the straight man is an instigator and may even manipulate or verbally abuse the comic or comics.
	tviv.org /Straight_man (212 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Straight Man
		Whatever it is the man is doing when not writing, he has got to stop.
		Until he realizes his obligation to suffering humanity, we will have to be satisfied with "Straight Man," which is no hardship, because it satisfies completely.
		The title derives from Hank's frequent comment, "In English departments the most serious competition is for the role of straight man," a notion that Russo -- his single flaw -- never adequately develops or clarifies.
	www.bookpage.com /9707bp/fiction/straightman.html (711 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Straight Talk \| Man in cage may run
		Janos MatÃ©, a long-time opponent of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity, told the Straight that he is considering putting his name forward at the September 25 COPE nomination meeting as a potential park-board candidate.
		On one occasion, he lived in the cage for six days; on the other, he fasted inside his cell for 38 hours to highlight the suffering of beluga whales after theyâve been captured from the wild.
		MatÃ© told the Straight that he strongly favours allowing a referendum on this issue in the November civic election.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=12668 (288 words)

	Straight Plan for the Gay Man \| PopMatters Television Review
		Straight Plan for the Gay Man is a send-up of Queer Eye that, as its title announces, reverses the roles of its gay and straight participants.
		Each week, a gay man who is curious about what it would be like to experience some facet of the straight world gets his wish granted by four spirited, 20something, gay-friendly heterosexual males.
		While the gay man who is transformed is an actual person, the straight guys are not, like the Fab Five, professionals in their respective fields, but comedians.
	www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/s/straight-plan-for-the-gay-man.shtml (941 words)

	Amazon.ca: Straight Man: a Novel: Books: Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Richard Russo's "Straight Man" is a marvelous novel in the tradition of "Lucky Jim," which is acknowledged in the nickname of Russo's protagonist, William Henry Devereaux, Jr.
		Straight Man just seems to be another fairly mediocre book of the grocery store book aisle type.
		In "Straight Man", Richard Russo once again has proven to me that he is one of the finest American novelists currently writing.
	www.amazon.ca /Straight-Man-Novel-Richard-Russo/dp/0375701907 (1430 words)

	Mower Man - Straight Story
		Straight crossed the river at Marquette, but Lynch liked the "character" of the Lansing bridge better than the concrete bridges that connect Marquette and Prairie du Chien, Wis.
		Straight made the trip on the lawn mower because he had poor eyesight and didn't have a driver's license.
		Lynch was attracted to the story because of the human interest angle, as well as the chance to shoot a movie outside, on location and during the harvest season, said Pope.
	www.lynchnet.com /sstory/mowerman.html (476 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		"Straight Man," Russo's fourth novel, tells the alternately comic and heartbreaking story of Hank Devereaux, Jr., a sometime writer and English professor at a small Pennsylvania college.
		Like its predecessors, "Straight Man" is also noted for its traditional, well-crafted characters and themes.
		Russo, who has previously worked on the screenplays of "Nobody's Fool" and "Twilight," is currently developing a screenplay for "Straight Man." Dreamworks owns the rights to the novel and may make it into a film.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1998/jun/06-01-98/arts/arts4.html (710 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Straight Talk \| Man sues over poster
		A North Vancouver man is suing his ex-wife in B.C. Supreme Court for defamation because she placed a âwantedâ poster of him, with his photos and personal details, on a âDeadbeatâ Web siteâs âHall of Shameâ.
		The man alleges that the West Vancouver woman falsely claimed on www.wantedposters.com/ that he owes $25,609 in child-support payments.
		As of April 10 the manâs poster was still on the site, but as of April 12 it was off.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=9560 (203 words)

	village voice > news > Post-Straight by Chris Nutter
		I understand their emotions." Being a straight man in gay circles taught Carrino something about what it feels like to be on the other end of the male gaze.
		The post-straight man has always existed on the fringes of macho, but as a type he was born in the 1970s disco scene.
		As straight guys outside the gay loop copped on to the sexual success of their post-straight friends, others entered the scene, turning the art of playing gay into a science for getting laid.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0132/nutter.php (2752 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / TV / The straight truth
		The straight guys of "Queer Eye" are the sort who still own Metallica T-shirts, who never learned to shave with the grain, and -- more to the point -- would probably have tormented the gay kids on the junior high school playground.
		Here, the straight guys are billed as the evildoers, imposters who deceive the earnest James in pursuit of a cash prize.
		It figures that straight men wouldn't fit into a world of charity events and Prada footwear, and it's refreshing to see the glitz through their eyes.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2003/09/02/the_straight_truth (925 words)

	Salon \| Sneak Peeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The protagonist is a hapless middle-aged man who's ironic, irreverent, perhaps even brilliant, but lost without the keener emotional insight and wisdom of his beautiful wife.
		Yet Russo's "Straight Man" -- a departure from his acclaimed upstate New York novels, "Nobody's Fool" and "The Risk Pool" -- is so funny, so beautifully written, so fully imagined, it is easy to forgive its familiarity.
		Devereaux has secretly renamed one young man on the faculty Orshee because he interjects that phrase when anyone uses the masculine pronoun.
	www.salon.com /june97/sneaks/sneak970617.html (486 words)

	Amazon.de: Straight Man: English Books: Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Having read and savored Nobody's Fool, Mohawk, and The Risk Pool, I eagerly jumped into Russo's latest work, only to be disappointed by the inexplicably overwhelming high praise for Straight Man. Whereas the characters in his previous novels were flawed but yet endearing, those in Straight Man are just flawed and rather pathetic.
		Some characters are well written, but they are for the most part typecast stereotypes (for example: "Orshe," the token ponytailed male feminist who is so named because he always says "or she" when someone uses "he" as a generic pronoun...
		I read The Risk Pool and enjoyed it, but I really LOVE Straight Man. The characters are ones we can relate to and can find a counterpart in our own lives.
	www.amazon.de /Straight-Man-Richard-Russo/dp/0375701907 (1079 words)

	The Straight Dope: Man Wrecks Planet: Are the popularly published environmental statistics accurate?
		I engage in some modest activism on behalf of the environment and a few other causes and I am sensitive about having my facts straight.
		As a rule, R.T., you want to distrust any statement printed on a T-shirt, which is where you'll usually find this one.
		Cecil's latest gift to mankind, Triumph of the Straight Dope, is in the bookstores now and can also be ordered on-line at the Straight Dope On-Line Store.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/030620.html (768 words)

	The Tin Man » Straight People
		It was really fine, and, in fact, since it was a straight bar, nobody noticed anyway.
		I have discovered that the Typical Straight Male Bar Outfit these days is a white Oxford shirt with vertical stripes, untucked, over a pair of jeans.
		I don’t get straight people, with their straight outfits and their straight beers and their straight economics.
	www.tinmanic.com /archives/2003/06/09/straight-people (244 words)

	Sit And Spin: December 2003
		The straight American male has heard exaggerated tales of the non-stop bacchanalia that many assume is the homosexual lifestyle.
		Such historical food for thought probably doesn't inspire many straight males to purchase trampolines, Playstations and NAMBLA memberships, but it may make them wonder why it's considered "hot" for their female friends to make out with each other, but "gay" (with the attending negative connotation) for them to try the same thing with other guys.
		The problem is that, through the ages, from Manifest Destiny through World War II to American cultural imperialism, American "rugged individualism" has embedded itself at the core of the straight man's psyche as a set of values which implicitly forbid any sexual union not ordained by the Christian god.
	www.sitandspinmagazine.com /1203/straightman.php (1452 words)

	Powell's Books - Straight Man: A Novel by Richard Russo
		My personal favorite remains Russo's Straight Man, but I've been unable to forget Chabon's Wonder Boys, Prose's Blue Angel, or Johnson's The Name of the World.
		In short, Straight Man is classic Russo — side-splitting and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down.
		I love Straight Man! I've read it three times, which is some kind of record for me — and even though Russo's other books, which include Empire Falls and The Whore's Child, are terrific in their own right, I think Straight Man will always be my sentimental favorite.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0375701907 (1016 words)

	Straight Man
		The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's experience of reading Richard Russo's Straight Man.
		William Henry Devereaux, Jr., known to his friends as Hank, is a fast-talking, self-deprecating man, the classic wise guy.
		Now approaching fifty, Hank finds himself heading full-speed into a midlife crisis: he despises his job as English professor at an undistinguished middle-American university, and his status as a "novelist" who has not written any fiction for twenty years.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/straightman (1039 words)

	The Straight Story review
		Contrary to the sinuous Lost Highway, The Straight Story is as straight as a road in Iowa.
		Contrary to previous Lynch films, man here is simple and good and wants nothing more than to help another man, as witnessed by the various people that come Straight’s aid.
		Also, Lynch does not swerve off course to explore another melodramatic theme: an old man is approaching certain death and the film refects a life gone by too quickly as his tractor slowly rolls on to the end.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/thestraightstory.html (645 words)

	WorldNetDaily: 'Gay' men as the straight man's messiah?
		While the straight guys hyperventilate whenever their girlfriends mention the very word, the gay guys are fighting in the courts to tie the knot.
		I have long said that the perfect couple would be a gay man and a straight woman, who marry and raise boys and girls to be both refined and nurturing.
		After all, the Straight Guys on the show are motivated to clean up for the women in their lives.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36003 (803 words)

	Concerned Alumni of Reagan. By Bruce Reed - Slate Magazine
		This Old Man: What set CAP apart wasn't simply its conservatism—compared to other Ivies, Princeton was never a hotbed of liberalism—but that it was conservatism for crotchety old men.
		In middle school, he suffered under the burden of "one man, one vote." At Princeton, he began to identify with the rights of minorities after Princeton students voted to postpone classes to protest the war.
		Yet the man they're counting on to save the family uses his own family vacations to read Socrates and nerd out like Michael Dukakis.
	www.slate.com /id/2133989 (4699 words)

	Amazon.com: Straight Man: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries): Books: Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In STRAIGHT MAN, Russo performs a balancing act of surface playfulness combined with searing truths about life's missed opportunities and moments of quiet despair.
		STRAIGHT MAN is definitely my recommendation of 2003, thus far.
		I've only read three of Russo's books: Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool and Straight Man. Sorry, but this is the only one that did not bore me. There were chapters that had me in belly laughs; others that had me shaking my head in agreement.
	www.amazon.com /Straight-Man-Novel-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0375701907 (2072 words)

	Hugo Schwyzer: Straight man, gay bar
		Gay clubs are there for gays and lesbians to exist without straight interference, and then straight people march in and treat it like it's an asexual space.
		I think it's flattering and kind of cute if straight guys hit on me; and because I don't take it seriously, straight clubs are a way of avoiding an over-sexualized atmosphere when all I want to do is dance and hang out with my friends.
		The problem with straights in gay clubs is that 99% of them treat it as a combination freak show/demonstration of how daring and hip they are.
	hugoboy.typepad.com /hugo_schwyzer/2004/11/straight_man_ga.html (1909 words)

	The Bitter Blog - The Bitterest Blog On The Net: Is it ok for a straight man to hit a gay man?
		This guy must have the misconception that being a gay catcher puts him under the rules of etiquette that a woman falls under - that he is safe from a punch to the head.
		He is still a man & what he chooses to do with his mini-man is his decision but shouldn’t have any influence on whether or not I should sucka punch him.
		I have come to the conclusion that being a gay catcher is not enough to save him from a punch to the head.
	www.thebitterblog.com /2005/12/is_it_ok_for_a_straight_man_to_hit_a_gay_man.html (390 words)

	Buy.com - Straight Man : Richard Russo : ISBN 0375701907
		Yet Russo's 'Straight Man'--a departure from his acclaimed upstate New York novels, 'Nobody's Fool' and 'The Risk Pool'-- is so funny, so beautifully written, so fully imagined, it is easy to forgive its familiarity.
		His narrator's description of life at a mediocre Pennsylvania college is wicked and precise, and easily a metaphor for the mean-spirited insanity of most institutions....Russo is an easy, elegant writer.
		Russo's latest novel is designed to provide intelligent entertainment and does precisely that....One would not expect to find [his protagonist, a] sly boat-rocker, on a television newscast flourishing a live goose and threatening a massacre of ducks.
	www.buy.com /prod/Straight_Man/q/loc/106/30288619.html (625 words)

	The New York Times > Fashion & Style > The Man Date
		It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman.
		Men who avoid man dates altogether are often puzzled by the suggestion that they might like to spend time with male friends.
		Which is why many men say that a successful man dates requires a guy to demonstrate concern for his friend without ever letting on.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/04/10/fashion/10date.html?ei=5090&en=37bef79604f97228&ex=1270785600&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all (1879 words)

	Philadelphia Magazine: Restaurants, Shopping, Events, Best of Philly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A man approached him, a man with blond hair and blue eyes.
		On one weekend in 2002, he met a man named Nathan, a six-foot-seven married father of three with a theater degree and an effeminate voice.
		One day he imagines life with a man to love, and the next day he wonders who will be the best man at his wedding.
	www.phillymag.com /articles/can_this_man_be_straight (3985 words)

	IMPACT Press: "Walk Like a (Straight) Man" -- Fall '05
		If, while in the presence of straight people at a restaurant you find that your façade has slipped and your homosexuality is making them uncomfortable, immediately leap onto the table and begin tap dancing.
		It's sometimes difficult for a gay man to walk and behave like a straight man, but it's not too difficult once you get the hang of it.
		I predict that by the end of the next decade, the gay community will be welcomed with open arms by their straight contemporaries, as long as they don't act like a bunch of queers.
	www.impactpress.com /articles/fall05/finleyfall05.html (730 words)

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