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Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna) is a hotheaded baseball manager who loses his job with the Seattle Mariners and winds up coaching a squad of inept Russians. But THE COMRADES OF SUMMER is more than just a Slavic Bad News Bears. Shot in the former Soviet Union, the HBO film nicely mixes savvy baseball comedy with post-cold war satire: Sparky has to scrounge for equipment on the black market, holds practices in a cavernous warehouse and listens sadly to Voice of America broadcasts as his Mariners head for the World Series. (It's a fantasy.) Mantegna is delightfully dour...
...Dilbert" needs to grow on the reader. upon first introduction to Scott Adams' strip about an inept scientist/bureaucrat and his fiendish canine, one might find the artwork too primitive, and the dog to be just too darn cruel. however, one soon realizes that the artworks is more stylistic than crude-the strip works partly because of its uniquely flat look. In addition, one starts to actually like the megalomaniacal mutt, Dogbert, and his some time sick sense of humor...
...government salaries and the cost of postwar reconstruction, Iraq has been printing money at a rapid clip, on cheaper paper, which makes counterfeiting easier. Currency dealers in New York City say that some genuine Iraqi dinars are now so sloppily printed that on first inspection they appear to be inept forgeries...
Wood was, no question, a stupefyingly inept director. But he also had to make his movies in no time (three, maybe six, days) on weeny budgets (Jail Bait cost $22,000). He got Plan 9 financed by some Southern Baptists; he gave leading roles in Bride of the Monster to anyone who would fund the movie. "Eddie paid me off in cash," says actor Lyle Talbot, who was in Plan 9, "and sometimes it was a lot of singles...
...movies from the grungy- romantic '30s. Everything else is, well, different. Meat is scarce here, so the piggy butcher serves chopped humans to his customers -- who may soon be his victims. A housewife bent on suicide rigs up a dozen Rube Goldberg devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart. Part circus, part zoo, the film's milieu is a nice metaphor for the rudderless morals of post-Everything Europe...