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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...popular host of the Oscarcast, Billy Crystal gets hugged by a billion people every March. He is a star, baptized in the mainstream -- partly because of his quickness of wit, partly because he's so darned cute. The particulars of Mr. Saturday Night's plot pay tribute to Crystal's landsleit: to Jerry Lewis (who began, as Buddy does, by lip-synching to Danny Kaye records), to Red Buttons (who had a '50s TV show), to Jackie Mason (who offended Ed Sullivan). To all the Jerrys and Jackies and Buddys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny, He Looks Jewish | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...Crystal never forgets that a valentine is a picture of an open heart. As director and co-writer, he is careful to make Buddy a not-lovable guy, one who uses his wife (Julie Warner), his daughter (Mary Mara) and especially his way- too-long-suffering brother (David Paymer: excellent) as the butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny, He Looks Jewish | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...does Crystal constantly want to redeem Buddy in the viewer's eyes? Why does the film go so moist just before the final punch line? Any Buddy could tell you: because kitsch is not just an anagram for shtick. In comedy the two are soul brothers -- the entertainer's way of saying "Love me, laugh with me, laugh at me, hate me, then forgive me and love me all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny, He Looks Jewish | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...welcome visitors to "the City at the Heart of the World." It is no idle boast. Cognac (pop. 20,000) exports 95% of its brandy, $2 billion worth a year, west to musty men's clubs of Manhattan, and east to Japan, where businessmen buy it packaged in Baccarat crystal at $1,000 a bottle. The French drink less and less cognac. "We've been switching to whiskey ever since the Americans liberated us in '44," says Jean-Luc Lebuy, a Remy Martin executive. He voted for the treaty, he said, because "it is the only way for Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Hands Of The People | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

CINEMA Billy Crystal's hugely funny Mr. Saturday Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

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