Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phillip, Longmuir delivers many one-liners to great comic effect. Occasionally his childlike wonder seems contrived, and several of his more emotional lines fall flat: "Now I know where I am," he says dopily, clutching the map of Philadelphia that Harold has given...
Damage was directed by Frenchman Louis Malle (in whose country the film is waggishly tagged Dommage); Peter's Friends was co-written by U.S. comic princess Rita Rudner. But these films are British to the bone. They take the dry approach to very wet issues: mad passion in Damage, nearly every other brand of designer angst in Peter's Friends...
...infest Marie's nightmare are purposeful robot- rats circling her with unblinking orange eyes. The various outbursts of sibling rivalry are pursued with a ferocity that prompts youngsters in the audience to pinch the overdressed child in the next seat. For the parents, Morris, 37, and his visual collaborator, comic-strip artist Charles Burns, also 37, offer heavily freighted tableaux -- how it was, way back when people wore bell-bottoms and leisure suits, and how it is now, when the wish for a perfect family Christmas collides with the need to knock back some extra holiday cheer...
...from the Muppet Show. Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy is Mrs. C., Gonzo is Charles Dickens . . . so this must be THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, the first feature from Jim Henson Productions since the founder's death. Director Brian Henson hasn't his dad's genius for comic detail, and the film often sinks into the brown funk of a wake for the passed master. But when Kermit (now voiced by Steve Whitmire) says of his dead son, "I'm sure we shall never forget Tiny Tim," the film pays touching tribute to Kermit's creator...
...Picking Leno as Carson's successor seemed a logical move at the time; Leno, after all, had drawn good ratings as Carson's permanent guest host. But Letterman, once regarded as Carson's heir apparent, was publicly grumpy at being passed over. And Leno, a well-liked and hardworking comic, has suffered a shocking run of bad publicity, much of it stemming from the hardball booking tactics employed by his departed executive producer Helen Kushnick...