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...WALTERS COULD SUM UP THIS year in one word, what would it be? "Busy." In person, she is as gracious and attentive as she is on the tube. But she is also warier, savvier and funnier than her television persona. "I've had a good run," she says, "but it doesn't seem like I'm working any harder than usual. Maybe I'm just enjoying myself more. My staff is always kidding me about my 'coulda, shoulda, woulda'. Well, I think there's been less of that lately." Does she ever take a vacation? "Yes, last spring I went...
That sort of indicated to the audience that this was a comedy, and that they were relaxed and they should laugh at things. And then they did. As soon as they get in a rhythm of laughing at the funnier lines, you sort of come to expect it and although of course you can't wait for it, after you say them, you know that there's going to be some sort of response and that just sort of helps you raise your performance to the next level...
...that's the word we want -- takes its course. The Kevin Wade-Chris Conrad screenplay takes some humorless pains to make this science fiction plausible, and it's smart of director Ivan Reitman to be patient with all that. The more that Schwarzenegger's predicament seems real, the funnier...
...frustrations of married life. The trouble is, his insights aren't all that original or funny. Like: "You become a little team ... Your partner becomes the one person in the world you can go over to and say, 'Do I have anything in my nose?"' Actually, Reiser is funnier with stuff like how dumb fish are. "They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch...
Given the tensions that gibber and flap through most marriages, Cordelia's affectations seem rather venial, particularly since her wealth makes Richard's existence so cushy. But she and her husband live in the world of Kingsley Amis, where the rules of decorum are a lot stricter and funnier than in ordinary life. Cordelia just won't do, and The Russian Girl (Viking; 296 pages; $22.95) hilariously shows...