Word: haplessness
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Other superb supporting performances get short shrift. Tess Harper and Carol Kane, who play the wives of the hapless duo are featured only briefly and Charles Grodin's deadpan performance as CIA agent Jim Davidson gets lost in the mish-mash of the plot...
Peter Ocko and Jennifer Cool are both wonderfully comic as Arnolphe's hapless servants. The best, most balanced performance in the supporting cast is that of Linus Gelber as Chrysalde, Arnolphe's sage friend...
Then, there it was: "East Hampton--Next Exit." My heart thumped; would it be true? Would Cappi be there? Or was I wrong? Maybe it really was the girl Dave had once known, maybe I was the hapless victim of my own nostalgic fantasies. Or was Dave the victim?--maybe Adam's brutal sexual slurs were thorougly accurate, and Dave's virility was about to be trampled by an Iowan heavyweight with a five dollar halo floating above her pimply head. We would soon know...
Still, the pathetic Shands, who demonstrate their faded wealth by wearing wonderfully out-of-date clothes, get to shine comically more than the other bit-players. As Bobo's brother, Lloyd is a hapless straightman, demonstrating his own talent for physical comedy by being a complete klutz. He is at the mercy of both Bobo and his loopy mother (Cloris Leachman). With her deadpan delivery of some of Walk's funniest lines, Leachman almost steals the limelight from Mandel...
...that Goldthwait's material is totally subliterate raving. In his latest HBO concert, Share the Warmth, he offered pungent comments on everything from Iranscam to Lucille Ball ("A 75-year-old woman performing slapstick comedy -- is that funny to you?"), along with hapless autobiographical asides. "I lost my job," he whimpers. "No, wait. I didn't really lose my job. I mean, I know where my job is still. It's just when I go there, there's this new guy doing it." Underneath the shrieks and stammers, a shrewd comic mind is percolating...