Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boss," as Moore calls Carter, has had a rough first year, but Moore is convinced that the legislative performance-including his own-has been better than the reviews. Says he: "We've had a damned good year." Among 203 bills signed into law since January, Moore is particularly proud of the $21 billion economic stimulus package, the creation of the new Department of Energy, the minimum wage bill and the ban on the purchase of Rhodesian chrome. His preoccupation of the moment is the energy bill, for which he lobbied in a series of private sessions last week with...
...Thousand Clowns confronts this poignant process of learning to compromise, but does so without losing its sense of humor. Murray Burns (George Miller), its rebellious and endearing hero, is an unemployed scriptwriter sickened by the necessity to toady to an imbecilic boss. He conducts a one-man protest against hypocrisy and convention, cultivating an air of lunacy to satirize and condemn the emptiness of those who relinquish their freedom for security. Murray holds spirited conversations with the Weather Lady, warning her not to repeat herself, thinks nothing of taking trips to the Statue of Liberty, and habitually admonishes his unheeding...
...expressive face, taut and still when he faces the possibility of losing Nick, twitches with exasperation and anger when enduring the rantings of his boss and grows pleading when he confesses to Nick or Sandy his inability to go job hunting. The only quibble with his magnificent performance is a certain awkwardness in his arm gestures...
Harry Dorfman as Arnold Burns and Kipp Rogers as Chuckles the Chipmunk, Murray's boss, also measure up to the rest of the cast. Dorfman competently fills the role of Murray's serious brother who compromised long ago and endures Murray's scorn with dignity. Rogers is fittingly unbearable as the pitifully unfunny Chuckles...
...establishment of the fast pace and quick pick-up of cues essential to good comedy. The blocking is generally excellent, and the comic scenes are very well-conceived. One of the rare problems is a somewhat distorted sound system--in a critical scene when Murray listens to his boss over an intercom systvm, the words are marred by static...