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...starting its fourth season together. Only one of them -- the silky, moonfaced Jon Lovitz, creator of the pathological-liar character -- seems to capture the old spirit: like Belushi or Aykroyd or Radner, he gets laughs by simply showing up onstage. Still, there's plenty of talent on hand: Dana Carvey, a pixieish comic with devilish impressions of George Bush and Jimmy Stewart; Victoria Jackson, a ditsily appealing blond; and the sparkling, versatile Jan Hooks. If none seem destined for stardom, they have at least been together long enough to get comfortable...
...writers are more comfortable with them too. Carvey's Bush impersonation galvanized the troupe into some sharp political satire on the '88 campaign. In one inspired sketch during the Iran-contra affair, President Reagan (ah, that's Phil Hartman) puts on his familiar bumbling act in public, then turns into a whipcracking boss in private, directing every detail of the covert operation, down to computing interest on the money stored in Swiss bank accounts. The show's movie parodies have also had some shrewd twists: Carvey, for example, playing Dustin Hoffman's autistic savant in Rain Man -- who turns...
...know a stereotype is really in vogue when it lands on Saturday Night Live. Last year the once-funny series ran a set of continuing skits featuring the decidedly un-Asian Dana Carvey. Carvey, sporting a black wig and thick glasses, played a Chinese pet shop owner. He spoke in an exaggerated "Chinese" accent. The main joke in the skits centered on Carvey's dubious proclivity for his chickens. "Chicken make good house pet" was his motto...
...stir a sensation but to fill booking dates. Pryor's film, Moving, is a comedy about a mass-transit engineer who loses his job, relocates to the Idaho ruburbs and declares war on his "neighbor from hell" (Randy Quaid). Among the cast are < Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey, SCTV's Dave Thomas and the World Wrestling Federation's King Kong Bundy. Behind the camera is Alan Metter, who directed Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 hit Back to School. Since Moving was unavailable for screening last week, we can only wish Pryor good luck. Reynolds and Ringwald, though, may need...
...troublemaking amateurs. He recently pushed through the California legislature a bill requiring the C.D.C. and similar groups to serve notice on all political advertisements that they are "unofficial" political organizations-and to specify, in large type, that such "notice to voters is required by law." Moans C.D.C. President Thomas Carvey: "This is a sort of poison label. It implies that there's something wrong with the endorsement -just as you might start worrying about a can of food if it carried that kind of notice...