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Little Rock -- Jim McDougal is under criminal investigation for his actions as former head of a failed S&L connected to the Whitewater mess. He portrays himself as an innocent victim of thrift regulators, but evidence in an unrelated case in 1988 suggests that he had something on his mind before the regulators arrived. His secretary during this period testified that McDougal "vacated the offices at the S&L building . . . He did not want to be accessible to the examiners to have to answer any questions at that time...
...Jim Brooks doesn't want to let go of people. Especially the people he creates. As TV's most admired comedy writer-producer-impresario, he has lived intimately with such enduring characters as Mary Tyler Moore's Mary Richards, the Taxi drivers and all the Simpsons. For years on end, he has stage-managed the human crises, triumphs, compromises that keep the best sitcoms fresh and true...
Close it and hope people don't remember I'll Do Anything as the last action musical. "Jim was trying something very interesting," says actor-writer- director Albert Brooks (no kin), who plays a Hollywood mogul in the film. "But that doesn't mean that if it didn't work, the project doesn't work. After all, every single thing in our lives was something else before we got to it. Would you like to stand in a restaurant and watch them cook your meal? If you saw the Mona Lisa three weeks into it . . ." He pauses. "Actually, the Mona...
...Anything is better than the Mona Lisa. It's also pretty darned fine as a movie, though it takes a while to find its pace and tone. You won't miss the songs; this is not the husk of a musical. It is a lovely, wayward comedy in high Jim Brooks style, with all his pinwheeling wit and edgy ruminations. Who needs production numbers? I'll Do Anything still sings...
...Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey...