LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's always dangerous to introduce a movie character who loves to quote lines from classic movies; you're forcing the audience to make comparisons, which are unlikely to favor the movie they're watching. In "I Love You, Beth Cooper" one of the teenage characters is a movie nerd constantly pontificating on some of his ...

Larry Doyle, a former TV writer-producer for "The Simpsons," was named the winner Monday of this year's Thurber Prize for American Humor. He was cited for the novel "I Love You, Beth Cooper." "Clearly Larry Doyle was not the BMOC (Big Man On Campus)," Thurber judge ...