Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns out that Jelly's boss, Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro), hasn't been feeling well lately. He hasn't been his usual heartless self. He can't beat his enemies to a pulp anymore. "You havin' one of them mind-grains?" Jelly asks. Paul insists he's having a coronary but feels well enough to pound the doctor who dares to tell him it's only an anxiety attack. Jelly decides to be helpful and gives his boss Ben Sobol's business card...
...nearly identical to theone he played in Throw Momma from the Train, buthe performs well enough to make us forget that forhim the film is little more than a retread. DeNiro's acting is occasionally reminiscent of hiswork in The Untouchables, but he milks thejuxtaposition of cruel mob boss and weepy patientfor all it is worth. Joe Viterelli is uniformlyhysterical as the moronic Jelly, all but stealingthe picture from underneath those with highercredit listings. Lisa Kudrow and Chazz Palminteriare given empty pasteboard roles, but they inhabitthem well enough...
...Lord's boss, Rudy Giuliani, would no doubt agree. He was in his first term when he found his son Andrew, then 7, playing Sim City. Andrew had placed police stations on every street corner. The crime rate was zero. Giuliani Sr. watched, fascinated, and began making suggestions on taxation, zoning and so forth. Finally, Andrew wheeled around. "Dad," he told the mayor of New York, "this is my city...
...going on behind the curtain--and it doesn't hurt that the star of Dancemaker, Paul Taylor, is one of the foremost choreographers of the 20th century. But Diamond's Oscar-nominated film is as much about the hardworking members of the Taylor company as about their enigmatic boss, and one of the most impressive things about Dancemaker is the way in which the details of the dancers' daily routine--the stresses of touring, the scourge of AIDS, the constant threat of career-ending injury--snap to newly vivid life...
Office Space explores the existential despair of human beings confined to anonymous cubicles in myriad, analogous corporations across the country. The protagonist, Peter Gibbons, played by everyman Ron Livingston, is fed-up with the endless paper shuffling at corporate nightmare Initech, his unctuously sinister boss Bill Lumberg (Gary Cole) and, in short, his life in general. Gibbons' arguments against the system are blandly familiar and add nothing new to the common polemics against human automatism. But Gibbons' main function is to give the similarly disillusioned audience an easily identifiable character. And the audience at this particular viewing (mostly 20-somethings...