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...Arizona. DeVito has enough smarts to realize that the unlikely plot machinations of Momma call for unconventional visual tricks and he also has enough imagination to pull them off. The camera swoops and pans at dramatic moments and will pull right up to an actor's face for a gag line. When Donner collapses on the floor after a particularly exhausting encounter with Momma, the camera spirals slowly upwards...
...only several moments when it seems obvious that Momma is DeVito's directing debut. The movie starts off at a breakneck pace that it just barely manages to maintain. But just when you think that DeVito is running out of energy, he comes up with even a sharper sight gag, or Stu Silver's script comes up with another great line...
...relevance are coming back into vogue. The networks, moreover, are fond of high-profile, easily promotable episodes that can draw attention to a series. ("Next week on I Love Valerie: a crack dealer moves into the neighborhood.") Equally important, many writers and producers, tired of feeding the sitcom gag machine, are looking for ways to stretch the old formulas. Says Hugh Wilson, creator of Frank's Place: "If you play Big Band all the time, every so often you want to improvise...
FAMILY: THE TIES THAT BIND . . . AND GAG! by Erma Bombeck...
...taste is not cool. For instance, there's the running gag about a fat girl whose only "funny" attribute is being overweight. Shooting up scenes and an extremely unfunny deflowering complete the offensive picture...