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  • The story ranges from comedic to semi-tragic in the telling of the story of Tevye, a dairyman living in a shtetl in czarist Russia.

    Joseph Stein, writer of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Zorba," dies at 98 Emma Brown 2010

  • Especially when it results in gently melancholic mood pieces being turned into semi-tragic arias.

    A Little Night Music deliasherman 2010

  • Graham is a pathetically, often hilariously, unreliable guide; a semi-tragic figure who brings to mind TS Eliot's J Alfred Prufrock in his nervous digressions – though, to begin with at least, he displays considerably less self-knowledge than Eliot's hero.

    Debut fiction roundup – reviews 2011

  • Especially when it results in gently melancholic mood pieces being turned into semi-tragic arias.

    A Little Night Music deliasherman 2010

  • Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper.

    5 Movie Clips from CRAZY HEART Starring Jeff Bridges – Collider.com 2009

  • Four-time Academy Award® nominee JEFF BRIDGES stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film CRAZY HEART from writer-director Scott Cooper.

    Trailer, Poster, and Oscar Buzz for CRAZY HEART Starring Jeff Bridges – Collider.com 2009

  • The beautiful actress Jasika Nicole is a lot more than the quiet, self-contained character Astrid Farnsworth who deals with ultra-crazy, semi-tragic Walter Bishop John Noble on Fox's Fringe.

    November 2009 2009

  • Four-time Academy Award® nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film CRAZY HEART from writer-director Scott Cooper.

    Crazy Heart Movie Trailer | /Film 2009

  • The beautiful actress Jasika Nicole is a lot more than the quiet, self-contained character Astrid Farnsworth who deals with ultra-crazy, semi-tragic Walter Bishop John Noble on Fox's Fringe.

    Art by Jasika Nicole 2009

  • The beautiful actress Jasika Nicole is a lot more than the quiet, self-contained character Astrid Farnsworth who deals with ultra-crazy, semi-tragic Walter Bishop John Noble on Fox's Fringe.

    Art by Jasika Nicole 2009

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