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...Steve Kern N N Sandra Kim N Y K.C. Klegar N Y Susanne Kohl N Y Alissa Land Y Y Bernard Lee Y Y Kenneth Lee N Y Ron Lee (absent) (absent) Jonathan Leff N N Jimmy Lew N Y Ted Liazos Y Y Frank Lockwood Y Y Barbie Looney N N Teresa Lopes N N Evan Mandery (abstain) (abstain) Fran Mastroianni (absent) (absent) Mike Mathieu Y N Chris Medgalia N N Jane Mendez N N Marcus Mitchell (absent) (absent) Matt Newlin N N Beth Ortner Y Y Lori Outzs Y Y Ed Palleson (absent) (absent) Greg Pastore (absent) (absent...
HITCHCOCK meets the Looney Tunes in Throw Momma From the Train, actor Danny DeVito's feature film directing debut. Momma is a bizarre, funny, offbeat romp from beginning to end, an irreverent farce inspired by the best and worst from pop culture...
...politics is determined by consensus and compromise become hopelessly unsettled in the face of single-minded zeal. The tendency is then to mistake it for irrationality. Ronald Reagan once famously referred to a group of regimes that defy the rules of international conduct as the "strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." Less than two years later it was discovered that Reagan not only had dealt with these Looney Tunes but, in the words of his former chief of staff, had been snookered by them...
...carefully laid-out schemes work, and the chaos that ensues has only been matched these days by the best of Blake Edwards' movies. Sagal takes considerable liberties with the script, further fleshing out Moliere's humor. Scenes take on a cartoon-like quality in the spirit of Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes. At times, Oleson becomes an Elmer Fudd buffoon. He stumbles over tree stumps and brings out an armory of weapons to battle his imagined enemies, looking ridiculously anachronistic in a World War I helmet...
Beyond the metaphysics, the religious, the philosophical and the pathetic lurks another dimension of the graffiti artists' world. It's the world of the inane, or, as one graffiti artist wrote, "This desk is getting looney...