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Maybe Don Ohlmeyer was right. Even though Norm Macdonald was funny on Saturday Night Live and is great when guesting on Howard Stern or David Letterman, it turns out the guy isn't always so entertaining. After Ohlmeyer, NBC's West Coast president, fired him from the anchor desk at SNL's "Weekend Update" last year, Macdonald made the disastrous film Dirty Work. And now this...
...Talks to Letterman producer Biff on the Late Show (Sept. 15) --Appears on McDonald's commercial (Oct. 10) --Wins National League MVP by a landslide (Nov. 19) --Appears on cover of Sports Illustrated (Dec. 14) --Hangs out with the President and First Lady (Nov.-Jan.) --Visits the island of the Dominican Republic (Oct.-Nov.) --Gets a national holiday in his honor (Oct. 20) --Guest stars at the State of the Union address...
...Talks to Letterman on the Late Show (Oct. 19) --Appears on McDonald's commercial (Oct. 15) --Wins Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year by a landslide (Dec. 28) --Appears on cover of Sports Illustrated (Dec. 14) --Hangs out with the Pope (Jan. 26) --Visits the island of Australia (Nov.) --Gets a Wheaties box in his honor (Oct. 13) --Guest stars on Mad About...
What's even sadder is the talent wasted. Director Tom Shadyac's other films (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; The Nutty Professor; Liar Liar) are bright, off-kilter farces; scripter Steve Oedekerk wrote Professor. It is a crime against humority that they and Williams (who in a chair next to Letterman is still our most brilliant word surrealist) renounce the work they've practiced with such abandon and invention for Patch's bullying sentimentality. Comics who want to do Hamlet often end up, as here, serving big, sticky slices...
Decades ago, Alfred Hitchcock said actors were cattle. Today celebrities are meat: junk food for tabloid headlines, canapes for cocktail-party surmise, fodder for Leno and Letterman raillery. Are the charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story...