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...attempt to interject logic. He was standing next to a 25-year-old guy with a butch hair cut and a dark suit. This guy was trying to persuade the shouter of something, but every time the crowd applauded, he stopped talking and started pushing his YAF-ish sign up and down as quickly as he could with a look of rapt concentration on his fact...
...Band is about (in the words of one character) "six tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer" at a birthday party. Michael, the party's huts, is 30-ish, charming and witty. In the early moments of the film, we find him talking to his friend Donald about their respective analysts, over-loving mothers and financial blues. Gradually they reveal the defense mechanisms that help them survive in a world where "failure is the only thing with which [they] feel at home." For Donald, the only escape is to read book after book. Michael, worried about getting old, stays...
From time to time, the show has run into problems-first of all, the network's own attitude. "They are frightened of our being too heavy, and are distrustful of their being too comedy-ish," says Producer Gene Reynolds. "The powers in TV-land want to know whether it is comedy or drama; it is very difficult for them to twist their imaginations to encompass both," says Constantine. The show is billed as a "comedy-drama," but the show's originators managed to persuade the network to eliminate a standard but bothersome sitcom laugh track. "Our humor...
...Miclziner's sets have no unity and seem rather a grabbag of Sean Kenny schtick with a few Oliver Smith staircases thrown in. Patricia Zipprodt-the best costume designer in the business-has managed to add to the trampiness of Meredith by giving her a succession of booker-ish rather than Mod-ish outfits. Peter Hunt's staging is in the best Hot Spot tradition...
...Brooklyn-bred magnate of mutual funds, as though he had financial halitosis. Many prophesied an early demise for his Investors Overseas Services, which flouted tradition and aggressively sold mutual funds to investors abroad, much as Fuller Brush men peddle house hold wares in the U.S. Now that the raff ish upstart has built I.O.S. assets to $1.8 billion, he has become too rich and powerful to deride. Investment hous es seek Cornfeld's favor, and continental bankers have begun imitating his sales methods. Last week I.O.S. brought out its first public offering of common stock, and eager investors abroad...