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Stand-up comedians have always had a reverence for what they like to call a “comic’s comic” — a fellow comedian who works with such distilled purity and edge, diving head-first into the gnarly metaphysics of comedy, that the comics end up worshipping him more than the public does. (He’s the stand-up-comedy equivalent of an ultimate cool indie-rock cult band.) Gilbert Gottfried was a comic’s comic. So are Larry David and Doug Stanhope and Maria Bamford. And Norm Macdonald was one too, except that as you watch Judd Apatow’s juicy and haunting documentary “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald,” you realize that there was a special thing about him. He was a comic’s comic…who everyone else loved too. As the movie demonstrates, Macdonald’s credentials as a comic’s comic were unassailable. We see his very first network television appearance on May 9, 1990, on “Late Night with David Letterman,” where he did a bit about the devil commanding someone to kill his family and chop them into bits and stuff the pieces into a duffel bag. (Then the killer learns that the devil is a friend who was kidding.)

From what I gather from fans of author Colleen Hoover, the novelist’s big-screen adaptations are pretty faithful to the source material. Never mind that the source material has never been a critical smash; if you’re a fan, the movies let you see the bestselling tales on the big screen with stars like Blake Lively, McKenna Grace, and Maika Monroe. The good news for everyone else is that this time, Hoover’s latest adaptation, Verity, is a much-needed tonal swing; it suggests that the filmmakers and stars Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway know this assignment is better served with humor and over-the-top sexiness. The actors, including a hunky, middle-aged, like-fine-wine Josh Hartnett, play the affair straight so we, the audience, can laugh our asses off. Adapted from Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, the seductive psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity.