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...With a New York accent, you can say 'goodmorning', and that sounds like a gag," Cleesesaid, adding that his own accent was the "worst"imaginable for comedy...
Mostly it's bad. Though Carsey and Werner are not exactly groundbreakers, their shows have brought a less frenetic, more naturalistic style to the sitcom genre. But Grand (created by Michael Leeson, who wrote The War of the Roses) is packed with plot twists and gag lines, most of them leeringly lame. ("Desmond, have you ever been intimate when the two of you knew you weren't in love?" "I've been intimate when the three of us knew we weren't in love.") The show strives to be a wacky send-up of soap operas, but it lacks...
...move by attorneys for the Pi Eta Speakers Club came just weeks after a Massachusetts Appeals Court judge overturned a gag order which prevented the woman or her lawyers from discussing the case with the press or public...
...fight costly legal battles to protect her constitutional rights when there is no basis for the defendants to seek to violate them," the two argued. The lawyers also criticized the club for presenting some of the same newspaper clippings which were held to be an insufficient basis for the gag order...
...fancy himself a killer, and that is the role he tries to play here: a psychopathic hit man. He is not a good enough actor for this particular assignment, nor has he the skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny bit for his pal Arsenio Hall, playing a man on a murderous crying jag. But mostly Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie Murphy...