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...story about contemporary neuroses -- as displayed by four Parisians, two males and two females unhappy in interesting ways -- Kundera creates a free-form fictional context in which everything, including an imaginary conversation between Goethe and Ernest Hemingway, can be claimed to matter. The Czech author indulges his obsessive itch to tell all without ever turning out a dull or obfuscatory page...
...story about contemporary neuroses -- as displayed by four Parisians, two males and two females unhappy in interesting ways -- Kundera creates a free-form fictional context in which everything, including an imaginary conversation between Goethe and Ernest Hemingway, can be claimed to matter. The Czech author indulges his obsessive itch to tell all without ever turning out a dull or obfuscatory page...
...Bochco has retrenched. Civil Wars, his latest drama series, takes him back into comfortable L.A. Law territory. Mariel Hemingway and Peter Onorati (a survivor of Cop Rock) play New York City lawyers who team up to handle divorce work. The Bochco trademarks are all here: three or four story lines interwoven through the hour, a mix of social comment and sophomoric black humor, and a slick, upscale look. (Even the office secretary dresses like a Vogue model...
...asked Bochco to redo the first episode, adding some comic relief; it now contains a subplot about a woman seeking a divorce because her husband thinks he's Elvis. Other problems remain. Civil Wars has too little of interest going on outside the courtroom (no romance so far between Hemingway and Onorati), and its "lighthearted" moments are rather distasteful. One running story involves Hemingway's law partner (Alan Rosenberg), who has a nervous breakdown in the first show and returns later to do kooky things like barbecuing hamburgers in the office...
...human face. The moral high ground is always clearly marked -- for the viewer, if not always for the judge. Lawyers, moreover, are warm, understanding and passionately devoted to their clients. Onorati, after negotiating a settlement for the "overweight" wife, accompanies her to her 20th-year college reunion. Hemingway pleads with one client, the wife of a sleazy rock musician, not to accept her husband's invitation for coffee. When the woman objects, Hemingway chides her like a protective sorority sister: "Hey, this is your lawyer talking...