Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children provide the comic relief that was a trademark of the previous Menu...
...real star is Jeff Goldblum as the network's frazzled manager. With his lupine smile and fake-intimate voice, he pushes a line of patter that is just a bit too slick to pass for charm. And when his life starts crumbling, you can almost smell his comic flop sweat through the screen. Tom Schulman's script is smart about the media's ability to create celebrities--and the viewer's need to embrace them--until it goes soft-hearted and -headed by denouncing the very salesmanship that Hollywood and TV are built on. For an hour or so, though...
...like the optimistic little boy looking for the pony in a barnful of manure. They are so sure that where there's sex there must be a sofa that they ask witnesses to inventory the furniture in the presidential study. White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles provides comic relief when he makes his appearance. "Good morning, Mr. Bowles," says his interrogator. "I believe you have a device that you would like to inflate?" No, it wasn't a blowup doll; it was a pillow. And while the grand jurors wait, Bowles huffs and puffs and then tucks the cushion...
...Unzipped. Women's Wear Daily editorial director Patrick McCarthy notes, "He's been a little bit less interested [in fashion] than when he first started out. He has said to friends lately, 'Maybe this isn't for me anymore.'" Mizrahi is working on a screenplay based on a comic book he wrote, The Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel. And he wants to act. But that, of course, is something he's been doing all along...
...plots are too similar to justify separate novels probably has not been paying attention to Roth's career. He has spun whole cycles of fiction around the same, or very similar, characters trying to cope with the unvarying problems of their lives. Repetitive stress is Roth's grand comic theme; his genius shows up in the variations...