Audiences laughed with Hanks as a wisecracking cross-dresser on the early 1980s cult comedy series Bosom Buddies.

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We had a break in the romantic subplot, thanks to the wisecracking Donna, but it returned with full force in the redheaded form of Amy.

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' And that was the first thing America noticed about Frank Sinatra: that miraculous voice, strong and subtle, wisecracking and wistful, streetwise but defiantly sweet.

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The wisecracking, musclebound, misogynist action hero had already appeared in several games, but the January 1996 release of Duke Nukem 3D made him a star.

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In Jenkins's 11 novels, including "Semi-Tough, " on pro football, and "Dead Solid Perfect, " on golf, his wisecracking central characters almost all hail from Fort Worth and attended Paschal High School, just like him and Hogan and, for that matter, me.

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