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...controlled skids is Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin, a supremely confident, supremely clueless TV commentator filling time with proctologist jokes, making awful wordplays when the Shih Tzu appears. He's the outsider trying fecklessly to gain a purchase on a closed world. He is also, one suspects, one of Guest's inner voices, an assertion of the reality principle saved from contempt by its self-satirizing edge...
...that Guest would ever admit to such a subversive agenda. He will own up only to "refining" a technique he first employed as the co-writer and one of the stars of This Is Spinal Tap, that perfect satire about a heavy-metal band on the treadmill to oblivion, which is presently enjoying a welcome re-release and a new DVD version. He is also the force behind Waiting for Guffman, in which he plays Corky St. Clair, a small-town hairdresser who deludes himself into believing that the historical pageant he has directed may be Broadway bound...
This is something Guest is good at. He says the idea for his new film arose at a dog park where he took his own pooches. He liked the "very low-key, nice people" but noticed that their discussions about dogs "sounded like they were about children." This struck him as funny, and he spent a year visiting dog shows. The director--who appears in his film as a bloodhound owner who really wants to be a ventriloquist--is also into technique. "In the past 10 years," he says, "film has become very unspontaneous, whether it's using digital technology...
...doily beneath an espresso served to a guest at Benjamin Netanyahu's office still bears the inscription "Prime Minister of Israel." After Israel's Attorney General, Elyakim Rubinstein, decided last week not to prosecute the former Prime Minister for fraud, many political observers are betting Netanyahu will soon be able to order a new stock of those paper coasters. The man who 16 months ago quit politics after an electoral pummeling is now cast by right-wingers as the only leader who can prevent Prime Minister Ehud Barak from making too many concessions to the Palestinians...
Each of the four guest rooms is decorated in an Afro-centric theme. The sunny Ashante Suite features African artifacts and textiles and hauntingly beautiful sculptures. Visitors tell Greenwood that staying in the Black Memorabilia Suite--with its old quilts, rag dolls and Louis Armstrong wax record from the 1940s--is "like going to Grandma's house down South." The romantic Jumping-the-Broom Suite, with double Jacuzzi, is popular with honeymooners, whom Greenwood greets with champagne, strawberries and cream...