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Remaking the show for a mainstream American viewership will be a challenge. Absolutely Fabulous is so appealing because it is as trenchantly sophisticated as it is hilariously base; American sitcoms are rarely allowed to be either. Edina and her pal Patsy, played by former James Bond vixen Joanna Lumley, make endless media references to people like New Yorker editor Tina Brown, legendary Vogue fashion director Grace Coddington and satirist Will Self, whom Edina hires in one of the final shows to write an acceptance speech for a public-relations award she has little chance of receiving...
...sweetie? I didn't get home last night"). Trendiness is neatly skewered (Edina's into aromatherapy, reflexology and rebirthing). And the stars are abfab. Jennifer Saunders, who writes the show and plays Edina, can evoke both laughter and sympathy just belly-sliding down a flight of stairs. And Joanna Lumley is delicious as Patsy, ogling a leather-jacketed adolescent, chasing a handsome stranger into an airplane loo or casually pulling a pregnancy-test kit from her purse...
...second half of the film is predictably somewhat less sharp. The numerous recollections of Clouseau are linked together by French television reporter Marie Jouvet (Joanna Lumley); her self-righteous journalistic fury at being "warned off" the Clouseau case by the detective's enemies was enough to make this reviewer reconsider his career goals. But the people Jouvet interviews en route to researching Clouseau's life generally hold their own, and Clouseau's doddering father (Richard Mulligan), a veteran wine grower who's sampled a little too much of his produce, is hysterical...
...Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) is a human fire hydrant for the mad dogs of Manhattan. Delivery boys smear mustard on his door jamb. Sex with his fiancée, a compulsive eater, is a quick kiss between bites of Mallomars. And his new partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents...
...ceremony with Independent Television (ITV) and had choice camera locations outside. The BBC supplied its all-day feed to 81 foreign broadcasting companies, including ABC, CBS and NBC. Especially remarkable were the BBC'S pictures inside the cathedral. They were orchestrated down to a nanosecond by Producer Michael Lumley, who directed the shifting of cameras from religious icons to the boys choir to the royal couple in a way that perfectly matched the music and pace of the ceremony. From a 6-in. square window near the top of St. Paul's golden dome, a BBC camera took...