Word: alda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interesting part. And I was so thrilled to work with the people that were involved. Because they were so good. It just kinda went back to the same thing, "Oh my God, what am I doing in this?" The very first day, I had a scene with Alan Alda. It was my first day of shooting and I had been doing the play for six months, I hadn't worked in front of a camera for over a year, and I just felt that if I lifted up my shirt it was going to say "Made in Taiwan" across...
...Object of My Affection certainly has its moments. Whenever Alda and Janey appear to give Aniston advice, the movie leaps into Woody Allen conversational mode, producing jewels of unbelievable hilarity...
...script is schizophrenic. While Macaulay's book is known for its intensive character studies of Nina and George, Wendy Wasserstein's script idles with the addition of random, irrelevant characters. Alan Alda and Allison Janey appear in small supporting roles to fit the screen with comic relief whenever the cheese becomes unbearable. Nigel Hawthorne, a Hytner mainstay, is thrown into the movie for no apparent reason (other than to give a tedious monologue where he works in the title of the movie.) Even worse, the script is unsure of itself-the declarations of love between various sets of characters...
...male lead (Jonathan Schaech) takes lessons from Paul Reiser, the nineties Alan Alda. The female lead, played by Gwyneth Paltrow is spunky and independent. (See, no jokes about her weight in this review). The mother-in-law presents, sadly, a thoroughly ingrained type, the Endora that all dowagers become. But maybe we should throw social critique to the wind as we've lowered our standards to below action flick plot expectations by watching this movie in the first place. Nope. That's the beauty of being fly enough to play both sides of this issue...
...such fine actors as Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay. It has been eagerly awaited by Broadway: finally, in a season when big musicals are getting all the buzz, a straight play with a chance of becoming a hot ticket. The U.S. cast boasts at least one marquee name--Alan Alda, who plays Marc with a few too many sitcom inflections--along with two solid co-stars, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina. Director Matthew Warchus' sleek, mod production (a white set dominated by three chairs and a coffee table) is essentially the same as the one still drawing nearly full houses...