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Dearest, delicate TIME.comix readers, I must beg your pardon, but to describe "Trashed" as anything other than the ultimate of all "shitty-job" stories would be patronizing and dishonest. What else could you call it when Derf hauls fly-encrusted, sagging baggies from the dog kennels? Told with perfect comic timing the hilariously filthy humiliations pile up. Continually on the lookout for the kind of petty foreman who always makes these jobs that much more intolerable, Derf and crew scrape up road kill, empty out rotted-meat-filled refrigerators, shake maggots out of their hair before lunch, and then watch...
...British version of The Graduate, too, seems to miss much of the film's sense of time and place, as well as its very American comic rhythms. The scenes that try to duplicate the movie (Benjamin's awkwardness at the hotel, for instance) fall flat. Those that depart from it (the climactic scenes at Elaine's wedding) go totally awry. To streamline the action for the stage, Johnson makes elisions that simply don't play. Mrs. Robinson now tries to seduce Benjamin not in her house with her husband gone but in his bedroom with a party going on downstairs...
John Leguizamo, he of the acid rants about his family relations, is a dad now. Has diaper duty mellowed him into Cosby Jr.? Relax. He faces a comic's worst nightmare--love and happiness--by taking fatherhood as occasion for a hilarious, moving look at his bumpy love-life past, with a little Latino History 101 thrown in. His riot of voices and song is unsparing of parents, ex-lovers and himself. When he met his live-in girlfriend, he tells us, "My therapist said, 'Congratulations, John! You are now emotionally 12 years old!'" Here's hoping he never grows...
...model spouses. If that sounds absurd, remember that this is a place where 93% of couples say they are unhappy in matrimony and 34% of marriages end in divorce. "F4 are so popular because women cannot find romance in real life," says Angie Chai, general manager of Comic Productions and creator...
...member of a rich brat-bully pack at an ?lite Taipei high school. (Mainland Chinese authorities were less enamored, saying it misled young viewers; Beijing recently banned the show after a few episodes aired on some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show producer, handpicked the boys from an audition of 200 (minimum qualifications: good looks and a height of 1.8 m) and dubbed them F4, short for the "Flower Four...