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...scene in Montreal in late July included lots of late-night shots of whiskey, 100 comics being ignored by the public while Emmanuel Lewis (TV's Webster) signed autographs and veteran dork-for-hire comic Kevin Meaney dropped his fake high voice to brag about a development meeting. The business of comedy was summed up by festival standout Mitch Hedberg, who was introduced as a comedian "seen on David Letterman." He said, "Four million people watch that show, and I don't know where the hell they are. I believe more people have seen me at the store. Which would...
...Federal Government should be tossing animals and plants off the endangered list rather than putting them on. But the public feels otherwise. A Denver Post poll in March showed that 81% support protecting the little mouse that's seldom seen. "Their habitat is shrinking fast," warns Boulder mammalogist Carron Meaney. "We might find the mouse in 100 places now, but in 10 years 95 of those will be under concrete...
...shooting, whether the subject is sex, using the bathroom or what's playing on the telly. The mother, Kay (Ruth McCabe), is patient, taciturn and sweet. When the question of contraception arises, she recalls the best she ever knew: the gift of a coat from her husband Dessie (Colm Meaney), which prevented him from taking her out in the fields where it might get dirty...
...Meaney's performance takes the character from traditional maleness to New Man-ishness in a wry, naturalistic, utterly convincing way. But then, all the acting in Stephen Frears' film is of that caliber. The director is at his best when jumbling moods and mixing motives, yet keeping everything straight and true. He neither patronizes nor celebrates these lives. He just makes them real. And in the process makes us their loving, laughing, admiring intimates...
Comedy Connection at Faneuil Hall. Keavin Meaney on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 2 at 8 and 10:15 p.m. Faneuil Hall, Marketplace, Boston. Call 248-9700 for more information...