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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed to take John Leary (Danny DeVito) warmly to heart. He has a childlike nature, at its best whimsical and gallant, at its worst careless and a little dim about the relationship between cause and effect. A recent widower, he is doing his best to single-parent two young boys (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Miko Hughes) and to make good in his cute new job (as the comically ghoulish host of midnight horror movies) in a new town (Oakland, California, circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Intentions | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...fact Gregg shorthand symbols, by which means the artists have filled the canvas with replications of multiple-choice answers from a survey on sexual behavior -- "More than once a week. Once a week. Two-three times a month . . ." Rarely has such a prolonged setup been followed by such a dim punch line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Whitney Biennial: A Fiesta of Whining | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...finally reached the golden palace of the Himalayas!" shouts Eugene Jerome, the lustful 15-year old son of a close-knit Jewish family in Brighton Beach. While Eugene is busy kissing a naked girl on a postcard, the lights dim upon the rest of his family resolving the somewhat weightier issues of sibling rivalry, job loss and parent-child conflict...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Thanks for the Memoirs | 3/18/1993 | See Source »

...particularly tickling scene, the lusty King is charged with the task of teaching lady-in-waiting Dulcibella (Elijah Aron) how to impersonate an alluring princess. Aron squirms delicately, wincing with dim-witted charm as Brown gropes after her (his?) pert, irresistable tennis-ball bosoms. Aron's hysterical Dulcibella is reminiscent of Woody Allen in some of his more slapstick roles. And Aron's boobs stand out to such a degree that they seem to have their own personality...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Ugly is Beautifully Silly | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

...bride, the lascivious king has chosen Anne's sexy (if dim-witted) sister, the new Queen Morgana Prettiface (Adam Feldman). "What Ho!" declares the valiant Princess Diana, who sports a leather Hamlet-style mini-skirt. "Oh, that ho," she says when she sees Prettiface...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Beth L. Pinsker, S | Title: AN EVENING WITH KNIGHTS IN SHINING DRAG | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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