Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...title of comic MARTIN LAWRENCE's 1994 movie, You So Crazy, came back to haunt him when he was noticed screaming and acting up in the middle of traffic at a busy Los Angeles intersection. "He was yelling, 'Fight,' you know, 'don't give up, fight the power,' or something like that," a witness told TV station kcal. Police restrained the star of Bad Boys, who was carrying a handgun in his pocket, and delivered him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where his doctor diagnosed his condition as exhaustion and dehydration. His publicist said drugs weren't involved and that...
...action seems to drag. While some of the dialogue fits easily into a musical style, at times it comes across as forced or awkwardly phrased. The highlight of the act is "Christmas," a number sung by Conrad, his parents, and his grandparents. Dr. Berger also adds some comic relief: in response to Conrad's question about his nightmare, Berger answers that he doesn't believe in dreams. "Between keeping up with the Freuds and keeping up with the Jones, I end up alone...
LARGER THAN LIFE (July 19). Bill Murray, who looks great as the villain in Kingpin, here goes on a cross-country trek with an elephant. Murray's a terrific comic actor, but really, road movies are the pits unless it's the late '60s, the elephant is a mule, and Jack Nicholson is along for the ride...
MATILDA (August 2), about a girl's revenge on her cruddy parents and evil schoolmistress, has the potential delectations of a Roald Dahl story and Danny DeVito's knowing comic direction. DeVito also plays Matilda's dad, expectorating lines like, "Why wudja wanna read, when ya got the television set sittin' right in frunnaya?" Or, we might add, when ya got a 'plex-full of icky kids' films...
...LENO Car-happy comic discovers that rising gasoline prices have put a tiger in his monologues...