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...other characters are less well-developed. Max, the eccentric rock critic, serves as a vehicle for easy humor, often at the expense of Stanley, the beleaguered ad manager. Rounding out the staff at each end are Lynn (Jill Eikenberry), the secretary, David (Bruce Kirby), the cub reporter, and Frank (Jon Korkes), the conscientious editor who is undercut repeatedly by his boss. What they all have in common, besides their affiliation with what Max calls the "Monongahela Backwash," is the low-keyed energy with which they are played. Michael, Laura, Harry et al seem like real people, even though they...
Other sequences, funny in themselves, seem to come out of nowhere. At one point, Max, exploiting his popularity as a rock critic, lectures a group of rapt girls, who are busily taking notes: "The answer to whither rock is hither. Some people say thither but they're wrong. Their theories are passe." In the film's most outlandish sequence, he engages in a conceptual art battle with a street person, who bangs his fists against a Coke machine, kicks it to the ground and triumphantly labels it "Dead Coke Machine...
Directed by RICHARD WILLIAMS Screenplay by PATRICIA THACKRAY and MAX WILK...
Social Studies theses were also due yesterday. Max Weber was unavailable for comment...
During his two-year stint as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry near Munich, Robert Gullis, 27, impressed his boss as "probably the most diligent man I've ever known." Indeed, the results of the young British scientist's experiments on the effects of opiates on nervelike cells were notable enough to be published in several journals, including Nature. Now Nature has printed another communication by Gullis: a letter admitting that his results were fraudulent-"mere figments of my imagination...