Word: greats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maxine (Catherine Keener). The world they exist in at first resembles the Kafkaesque wilds of a Terry Gilliam creation. Nimble-fingered Cusack, for instance, gets a job manning file cabinets on the 7 1/2th floor of a downtown high-rise built specially for the short-statured: the rent is great but the ceilings are barely five feet tall. Though watching Cusack stoop down and stumble around the office hallways is funny, the film knows how dull these sorts of gags could become, and puns lamely on the "low overhead" of the floor enough to make the lameness itself the joke...
...this great jazz music playing," Gibbs says. "The whole thing was very elegant, very top-of-the line...
...Still, even though it's an amazing experience I'll never forget, there's also something very disturbing about these creatures who are caged and used for our purposes. It upset me a great deal. I do not suggest anyone go out and buy a monkey...
...striking how much of a physical departure that the two of you made in creating your characters for this movie. You're both great, but totally unrecognizable...
Matthew Perry is one of those actors who has one great strength but is usually forced to milk it to the bone because it's the only real strength he has. In Perry's case, that particular ability is sarcasm; he excels at dishing out ridicule, firing one cutting remark after another, all the while wrapping his acerbic barbs in self-deprecation. Perry's got great timing and a needling delivery, and these qualities have helped make his Chandler Bing the most consistently funny and engaging character on "Friends" for the last five years. And Perry is an ideal sitcom...