Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael J. Fox is a cute guy and a skillful actor. Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City was a cute novel and a polished one when it was all the rage four years ago. Wrapping them up together was not an entirely unreasonable movie-packaging idea. It arrives, however, looking like something that has been kicking around too long in the dead-letter office...
...told flatly, Jamie turns into a terrible twit, alternately superior and self-pitying, especially with a sympathetic older colleague (Swoosie Kurtz) at the New Yorker-like magazine where both work. The fact that his mother loved him but died does not really excuse him. The fact that Fox brings the sympathy he has won, and the comic elan he has perfected, on television cannot restore Jamie to our good graces. The fact that James Bridges is a hopelessly unimaginative director finishes Jamie off. In the wake of this film's failure, one begins pondering Bright Lights, Big City's last...
Last night, Cinderella was back at the ball. She has been there so often she has the phone numbers of 10 princes, nine dukes, eight grand dukes, seven archdukes, six counts and a handful of presidential candidates. She has dated Michael J. Fox, married Johnny Carson (and settled for a million a year in the divorce agreement), been pursued by Slyvester Stallone...
...Fox Network has stumbled often in its first year of battling the Big Three, but the scrappy newcomer is making its mark...
Most industry observers seem satisfied with Fox's bumpy progress. "I think they're just about where they and we expected them to be at this time," says Jack Otter, a senior vice president of McCann-Erickson advertising. Admits Kellner: "When you're going against companies that have the power of ABC, CBS and NBC, you're taking on a pretty heavy job. It's like climbing Mount Everest." The first small steps up have been encouraging enough for the viewer to hope that the ascent continues...