“Start with a typical high-school-comedy premise: hapless loser inhabits dreary life in dreary town and watches a suaver suitor snap up his girl. You with me? We’re gonna put a spin on it. Let’s make ...

Albert stiffened and regarded his opponent. Charlie Blanche and Albert Stark could not have been more contrasting in their deportment: Blanche was a grizzled, weathered-looking mass of aggression, who ...