Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday Night" Billy Crystal portrays Buddy Young, a comic who has spent fifty years fighting his way to the middle. Young's story is presented in the form of flashbacks which reveal how Buddy is his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close to him. The movie entertains by presenting Young's more obnoxious moments and leaves you believing in the goodness and brilliance of a fat, balding has-been...
...Saturday Night" Billy Crystal portrays Buddy Young, a comic who has spent fifty years fighting his way to the middle. Young's story is presented in the form of flashbacks which reveal how Buddy is his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close to him. The movie entertains by presenting Young's more obnoxious moments and leaves you believing in the goodness and brilliance of a fat, balding has-been...
This presence of the antique, which was an obsessive and recurrent aspect of all artists' experience in Rome or Naples, surfaces elsewhere in Ribera's work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...
...BOTTOM LINE: This intimate epic about a nightclub comic works too hard for pathos but is great for laughs...
EVEN IN HOLLYWOOD, FEW WOULD RECOGNIZE HELEN Kushnick if they passed her on the street. But they all know the talented young comic she discovered two decades ago and guided to glory. Weathering a Sophoclean series of tragedies (her son's death from AIDS in 1983, her husband's death from cancer in 1989), Kushnick became the executive producer of the legendary Tonight show when her protege, Jay Leno, succeeded Johnny Carson in May. Then with an almost willful recklessness, Kushnick reportedly began demanding that stars who wanted to appear with Leno on the Tonight show had to boycott...