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...advertisement run in the The Boston Pheonix by Martin P. Kafka M.D., a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital...
What gave him that idea was Kafka's Amerika. "I was thinking about how he and Brecht and others saw America. Obviously, they got their ideas from the movies, the Keystone Kops, Chaplin. You think of these guys sitting in poky little movie houses in Central Europe in the 1920s watching these flickering images. As far as they were concerned, everything in America was all in the same place. You rode down Fifth Avenue straight into Monument Valley...
...those of his siblings. One sister is single-parenting a potential juvenile delinquent. Another is married to a character played by this summer's one-man nerd fest, Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters II and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), who has their two-year-old memorizing square roots and reading Kafka. Then there's a brother, who drifts back home looking for a new way to get rich without working, help with his gambling debts and a place to park his illegitimate child, whose name is Cool, whose skin is black and whose mother is about to do a jail term...
...When the boil comes to a head, it is a head. It has eyes, nose and a foul, funnily flapping mouth -- Bagley's id made manifest and shouting down his superego like some corporate raider ragging management at a stockholders meeting. Goodbye, Ealing Studios. Hello, Kafka. And for a while, pretty good Kafka. As he showed in Withnail and I, director Bruce Robinson has a truly weird sensibility, and Grant is his kind of guy, an actor morosely and ferociously resistant to normalcy and good cheer. In a story in which his wife (a spiritless Rachel Ward), his boss...
...beaten after he $ refuses a fan's request for a handshake. In the title sketch, an ordinary couple become celebrities, in a way that seems chilling and entirely possible, when PEOPLE magazine, the morning babble shows and a congressional subcommittee hold their marriage up for universal inspection. If Kafka were writing this spooky stuff, you would call it Keilloresque, but it wouldn't be nearly so funny...