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...would call Lowell (Bud) Paxson a dimwit. He is an unusual sort of TV executive, certainly: a born-again Christian who makes more money than headlines and counts among his achievements the Home Shopping Network, which he sold for a bundle in 1992. Nor would Barry Diller, a genuine TV honcho who makes a lot of money and headlines, qualify as anything less than bright. But each is about to embark on what would appear to be a fool's errand: starting a new television network in an era in which audiences are fragmenting and network profits disappearing. Paxson...
...class women ("Don't you ever feel like Chanel is really all you can count on?") or the self- absorption of their husbands ("Cuddling? There's hell on earth. How do you know when you're done?") A gay male art pornographer and a lesbian ex-con, gurus to dimwit straights, induce a conservative presidential hopeful to striptease, his wife to pose naked and their daughter to leave Junior League matronhood for lesbian passion. All their problems are solved at once. It seems we have seen this play before: back then it was called Hair, or maybe Oh! Calcutta...
Oswald is made a dizzying blend of soldierly submission and insolent sneer, animal cunning and dimwit suckerdom by Alexis Arquette, a film actor (Last Exit to Brooklyn, Threesome) and sometime drag performer under the sobriquet Eva Destruction. In the most jarring scene, he is half-seduced, half-raped by David Ferrie, a fey father figure and apparent conspirator. Ferrie, whom Malkovich has said he would have liked to play if he were not directing, is a tour de force for Laurie Metcalf in a far cry from her Emmy-winning role as the title character's sister...
Jennifer Jason Leigh shines, but in a different equation: she has been terrific in a dozen films almost nobody has seen. Her only hit was Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and that was a decade ago. Her main roles are as dimwit sluts and babes in bondage. But the daughter of actor Vic Morrow finds subtle shadings in all these parts: the put-upon homeowner in Heart of Midnight, the woozy Delta princess in Sister Sister, the victimized trollop Tra-La-La in Last Exit to Brooklyn and, triumphantly, the pathetic young prostitute in Miami Blues. A ferocious student...
JEEVES TAKES CHARGE. Edward Duke impersonates P.G. Wodehouse's magisterial butler, his dimwit employer Bertie Wooster and even a terrifying aunt or two in this one-man triumph in Cambridge, Mass...