Word: dopey
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...transform men's souls"--and promptly gives away every ideal he's histrionically declared as fast as anyone will take them. Diane Wiest is hilarious as the ridiculous Sinclair, speaking and moving as if she were an alcoholic Lady Macbeth who'd be king herself rather than any dopey husband. Late to the first rehearsal, she intones, with terrible drama: "My pedicurist had a stroke!" (as he was doing her left foot, she thunders, "the pain was terrible"). She overacts so gorgeously that when she apostrophizes Shayne ("O pungent, seething artist!") the ludicrousness of the line is not too much...
...sure. But the new company wouldn't exist if Katzenberg hadn't been dumped at Disney -- a fact that must be provoking second thoughts on Dopey Drive. Now the besieged mouse factory faces serious competition in a business it dominates, feature-length cartoons, from Katzenberg, who helped perfect the modern Disney cartoon style. If Katzenberg has a mission other than to run a state-of-the-industry multimedia company, it is to duplicate the artistic and commercial success of recent Disney animation. In Hollywood, revenge is a dish , best eaten in public -- at the box office...
...parallels with the President's. Both are Southerners. They are about the same age (Gingrich, at 51, is three years older). Both own classic Ford Mustangs. Both got deferments from the Vietnam draft (Clinton's 2-S student dodge, Gingrich's 3-A married-with-children exemption). They share dopey explanations for marijuana use. (Clinton: "I didn't inhale." Gingrich: "I tried it once; it had no effect on me.") Both took the names of their stepfathers (Clinton was born Blythe; Gingrich, McPherson). Most important, Gingrich one-on-one is as effective as Clinton. Said a multiterm Democrat...
Mussburger's plan is to let dopey Norville, an all too recent graduate of Muncie College of Business Administration, run the company into the ground so that he and his colleagues can pick up shares in a basically sound company on the cheap. The tough newspaper gal (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who's supposed to expose the fraud and falls for Norville is distinctly Capraesque too. There's even angelic intervention and a touch of time warping, devices Capra employed in It's a Wonderful Life...
...time you are seven, the dictates of the cookie-and-Kool-Aid-culture require you to develop mature television relationships -- ones that no longer involve dopey, Leo Buscaglia-inspired dinosaurs like Barney...