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Robin Williams can dominate scenes and hold close-ups like no other actor in history: through intelligent comedic insanity. He commands complete attention during his manic riffs--whether he's mocking Jack Nicholson, performing his Mother Teresa impression, or simply improvising as only Robin Williams...
Other shows divide up more or less along the lines of Channel Umptee-3 and Blue's Clues. Wimzie's House on PBS, which has received a lot of attention, is another program made by talented people that may be too manic for its intended viewers. Wimzie is half bird and half dragon. She lives with her parents, her grandmother and her little brother; and since her house is a day-care center, it is usually full of her friends. The show is sweet, but it is hard to follow. "Why does [it] have to be so cluttered?" asks Jerome...
Entering the office of the Boston Jewish Film Festival after a walk around Waltham is like stepping into Technicolor Oz from black-and-white Kansas. A barely repressed sense of manic energy pervades the tiny office, as well it should. The ninth annual Festival, which closes November 16, has brought a vibrant array of marvelous contemporary film to the Boston area...
...always suspected that dentists and child psychiatrists were behind the Halloween craze with its manic encouragement of candy-eating and anti-social behavior by kids. Similarly, I believe that the eastern media punditocracy is responsible for the irregularly-timed, odd year elections that we experienced again Tuesday...
...climax is a joke about two lawyers having sex in order to produce the Antichrist. Yet D.A. (pun intended?), while lacking the intricacy and genuine thrills of The Firm or the scares of Rosemary's Baby, is a campy, entertaining mix of both films, boosted by Al Pacino's manic performance as its centerpiece...