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...only London holdover) smartly navigates Larry's sometimes improbable swings of temperament; Rupert Graves is pub-crawlingly plausible as Dan; and Anna Friel, as the waifish Alice, is the most appealing new face on Broadway this season. Richardson invests Anna's elegant exterior with shadows of vulnerability, delivers gag lines with dry panache and raises the electricity level just by striding onstage. And yet, amazingly, her star wattage never outshines the ensemble. Now that's a career move...
...Peter Stone (Titanic) in ways that pass p.c. muster without losing all the fun. A song has been dropped (I'm an Indian Too); an interracial love story has been added; and the Native Americans in Buffalo Bill's show are now quite obviously playing along with the gag. ("How," says Chief Sitting Bull, by way of greeting, "...is business?") In a musical that proclaims, "There's no people like show people...
...khaki, white and an awful lot of black. My outfits began to-gasp-coordinate. My mother was proud. My sister was relieved. My employers were satisfied. And at first, I too was happy. Then I realized the stifling truth: I was mysteriously drawn to clothes that secretly made me gag because I felt I should like them, not because I actually did like them. Today, fortunately, I've finally reached my fashion pinnacle. Through time, trial and lots of pos-Halloween sales, my sense of style has evolved into the smug, bratty child of my two previous phases-my desire...
...Julia Child to shame--whatever Amanda is feeling as she makes them goes into the food. This leads to a few funny scenes, particularly when Tim and his girlfriend eat at the restaurant, It's a one-trick pony, but the film makes as much good use of the gag as could be expected. Otherwise, the film follows the model of the standard romantic comedy, including separating the lovers until the one causing the problem figures it all out. Only one scene drags--a bizarre, pastry induced dance between Tim and Amanda that doesn't quite flow...
Lewinsky is trying to regain control. Last week her lawyers asked a judge to free her from Kenneth Starr's gag rule so she could go on TV for a ritual cleansing administered by Barbara Walters. MTV's Carson Daly would have been a much cooler choice...