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...chosen alternative is Big Apple, produced by David Milch, creator of that other seminal '90s drama, NYPD Blue. The premise: the FBI's New York City office is investigating the Russian mob (and perhaps persons much higher) when it runs into a snag--dogged N.Y.P.D. cop Mike Mooney (Ed O'Neill, who almost makes you forget he's Al Bundy and the 1-800-COLLECT guy). When Mooney, looking into a stripper's murder, steps on the FBI's case, the bureau folds him and his partner into its team. But the two cops find themselves steered wrong...
...Apple is in the tradition of CBS policiers about morally conflicted cops and feds (at best, EZ Streets and Wiseguy; at worst, Falcone). But the series' NYPD Blue lineage becomes clear when those trademark, mannered Milchisms start flying ("Speaks well of you, the address comes so quickly to mind," Mooney says when his partner recognizes the location of a strip club...
Bamboozled puts fashionable technology (the movie was shot with digital video cameras and transferred to film) in the service of a backstage tale as familiar as 42nd Street. It's Lee's usual mix of slapdash dramaturgy and sharp performances; note especially Paul Mooney, cogent and sexy as Pierre's dad, and Thomas Jefferson Byrd as the Mantan show's announcer. It has big third-act problems, when the caricatures are meant to morph into poignant humans. Then everyone pulls guns out. Insanity...
...Grafton, however, "the atmosphere has more of a buzz when it's busy," counters Alan Mooney, who has tended bar at both locations. Lee concurs, "they're a little grittier at Grafton, a little more seasoned. We're too new over here...
...Contrasts, dad and son team up for a dapper program of seven-string-guitar duets (the added bass strings make for an orchestral richness of texture). The bill of fare ranges from high-class standards like The Bad and the Beautiful to such sophisticated novelties as Joe Mooney's Phantasmagoria; the playing is crisp, witty and swings like...