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...punctilious fussbudget Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple; in New York City. By the time he was cast in his defining role, Randall was already an accomplished performer, having appeared in the original Broadway production of Inherit the Wind and as a smart-aleck sidekick in three Rock Hudson?Doris Day films. He remained active in his 70s and 80s, founding the National Actors Theater in 1991 and siring his first child (with wife Heather Hanlan...
...basically did nothing but stand at a microphone and tell jokes. He was a wiseguy, a smart aleck, a comic minimalist in pursuit of the perfect gag, which, through a process of trial and error and full of genially sneering asides at the eggs he laid along the way, he often found...
...Doubleday; 170 pages), is a continuation of the culture wars framed as an attack on critics of the war on terrorism. And in this corner we have Michael Moore, the left-wing prankster and filmmaker (Roger & Me) whose new book, Stupid White Men (HarperCollins; 277 pages), is a smart-aleck rampage through the world made by CEOs and the G.O.P. It quickly hit the top of the New York Times best-seller list. Just behind it on that same list are Bias, Bernard Goldberg's conservative complaint about liberal media, and, further down, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience...
...Tidus, the protagonist, sounds like the lead singer of a suburban boy band. If there are four flavors of hero, Tidus is of the “irreverent teen” variety, though he’s more often chubby-cheeked crybaby than wise aleck. His native metropolis is commercialized and techno-cool, with five-story video screens broadcasting statistics of fictitious sports over glittering golden skywalks. Tidus matches: his caution-yellow clothing evokes some fantastical line of clubwear...
...triumphed, he could have found himself named Doris Day, the television program's campaign having drawn more than twice the number of signatures that Alliance-ators had considered necessary to put an issue before the people. Every time he rose in Parliament to make a speech, some Liberal smart aleck would shout from the back benches, "Give us a song, Doris!" This is a man who won by losing...