Word: joe
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Trimming the number of films is simpler than cutting production and advertising budgets. Ironically the most aggressive trimmer has been Disney, the same company that started the more-is-better strategy a few years ago. Studio chairman Joe Roth says the company will cut its output from 35 movies a year to 18; creative types are already bracing for a Disney downsizing...
...named an unindicted co-conspirator in that alleged conspiracy. News of the verdict had the Clinton camp predicting that the Whitewater scandal would fade from the election-year radar screens. "It takes one more issue off the table for Republicans who think this is an important matter," said spokesman Joe Lockhart. Maybe, maybe not. Within the deadlocked counts against Branscum and Hill, there are a few potential land mines remaining, including charges of conspiring to direct more bank funds to Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial race and to his 1991 presidential exploratory committee...
...finally, one might easily forget about the humans, who are hindered by many stretches of painfully bland dialogue of the move-the-plot sort, as if the writers were fearful of departing from the formulaic awkwardness of courtship. O'Connell as Joe gamely spends his time undergoing the gags tossed at him throughout the movie, but usually sounds even more stilted than this one-trick-bug of a movie allows. Ward's Lily isn't given much to do but be pursued, compliment Joe and act nobly...
...Joe's Apartment" has the look and feel of a short film stretched out to feature length and therefore cannot sustain the audience's interest: the writers simply didn't work hard enough at filling in the gaps. The roaches--they are the flying variety, for all you critter hobbyists--become boring for all the variety of the music...
Perhaps if MTV had sunk its teeth into things and put the whole film through the quick-cut music-video grinder, at least they could be seen to stand by their principles. Otherwise, "Joe's Apartment" fails, despite however millions of years its stars have survived. Wait for stars even lower in the march of evolution: Beavis and Butthead...