Word: misbegottens
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...movie has been adapted by Mark Medoff from his own 1973 off-Broadway play. Like so many well-made American dramas, it is a long day's journey into night: the characters slowly reveal the sad truths of their misbegotten lives. The difference between Medoff s play and other recent exercises in theatrical soul baring (from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to That Championship Season) is the catalyst that provokes the truthtelling. It is not booze that loosens the characters' tongues...
...afternoon at the Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles. A group of newspaper television critics have assembled to talk to the stars and producer of CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard, a misbegotten rip-off of Smokey and the Bandit. The questions are relaxed, the answers as washed as California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual...
...frame it seemed to lack spunk? That within minutes it be came clear that the people who conceived it lacked even the false creative energy that healthy cynicism can sometimes engender? That it finally succumbed not just to its failure to evoke the spirit of romance, but to a misbegotten sense of its own importance...
...both of these elements--the piercing and hysterically funny comedy/social analysis that was considered obscene and Bruce's horrible physical condition. He didn't always look like that; that's visible from two even more rare tapes of Bruce on the Steve Allen show, and even better, the misbegotten film that might have been the pilot for a TV series. A fascinating combination of infrequently seen films, for which Off the Wall deserves congratulations. congratulations...
...Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe. For the rest of us, sitting through this 90-minute waste of celluloid is akin to viewing a series of old Johnny Carson monologues strung together; you know exactly what's coming, and the pleasure lies exclusively in the anticipation, not in the misbegotten result. However, in all fairness to the individuals responsible for this film, they certainly knew what they were doing. Towards the end of Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe, an emcee walks onto the stage to deliver a few announcements and reflect on the performance. After thanking the London audience...