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Blessings on cynical Larry, whom tiny, manic Danny DeVito was born to play. He may be the scourge of conservatively managed corporations that labor under the delusion that the business of business is to manufacture something useful, even to be something useful as a provider of jobs and community stability. Larry's insistence that business's only business is to maximize shareholder profits may be reprehensible to most people. But he's a bubbling fount of zestful zingers, nasty but never less than half truthful, and often entirely so. Most important, DeVito's Larry is the power source for Other...
...Still, DeVito's developing Napoleon complex is fun to watch, and Haskell Wexler's cinematography -- part semidocumentary, part burnished formalism -- is entrancing. It is a serious defect of our movies, our fictions in , general, that they generally ignore what may be the central, and is surely the most entertaining, drama in American life: high-stakes corporate wrangling. So here's one proxy cast in favor of Other People's Money, whose managers have at least risked opening a new product line in these difficult times...
Joel is also sporting a new band on this tour: only guitarist David Brown, drummer Liberty DeVito and sax player Mark Rivera remain from his old Long Island gang...
...Danny DeVito...
...five-night engagement in Worcester marked the beginning of Joel's Storm Front tour, and his band was tight, stomping their way through "Pressure" and "You May Be Right." Saxophonist Mark Revere added extra flourish to the show, and maniacal drummer Liberty DeVito is always entertaining to watch...