Word: macnicol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show that brought you the dancing baby now displays its other choreographic skills. Elaine (Jane Krakowski) worries about participating in an upcoming dance contest. Gab-queen Rosie O'Donnell guest stars as a marriage counselor for Billy and Georgia (Gil Bellows, Courtney Thorne-Smith). Also, when John (Peter MacNicol) has his birthday, Nelle (Portia de Rossi) gives him an intriguing present...
Sorta like Ally McBeal meets the Real World. The hour is packed with behind-the-scenes footage, wacky clips and cast interviews with Gil Bellows, Lisa Nicole Carson, Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann and Peter MacNicol...
...Bean, the other board members vote to send him to America, passing him off as the art expert who will accompany the masterpiece "Whistler's Mother" to a museum in Los Angeles which has just purchased it. The curator and art historian of the museum (Peter MacNicol) inexplicably offers to put Bean up for his stay in town, affording Bean the opportunity to wreck not only the painting and the official unveiling (for which he is supposed to give a speech), but also his poor host's house and home...
...unexplored as per the show--also turns out to be a mistake. The movie makes viewers obliged to feel sorry for them, a surefire way to kill the fun. Bean's curator host is incredibly whiny and annoying, and quite undeserving of all the screen time he soaks up. MacNicol, whom one wants to strangle, is straight out of the generic fretting and put-upon straightman mold, and his presence truly cheapens Atkinson's admirable efforts...
Unfortunately, the other star, film actor Peter MacNicol (Sophie's Choice), seems irredeemably phony. That results partly from the writing -- he plays a big-time liar in the first piece, a sculptor equally duplicitous in work and love in the second -- and partly from unconvincing accents and tatty wigs. The big problem is that MacNicol, normally deft and winsome, fails to muster charm. The plays see life through these men's eyes and effectively excuse their sins. MacNicol's romantic devastation in the opening piece suggests peevishness, not agony. His utter ruin in the second piece is so shallowly felt...