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...smash Damn Yankees for its current revival. In between were well over 100 productions in which George Abbott was named somewhere in the program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked by what came to be known as the "Abbott touch," which eschewed psychological depth for a seamless, balletically precise progression of word, movement, song and stagecraft, all at a pace somewhere between high spirited and frenetic...
...Jersey mini-mall, the convenience-store guy and his pal from the video store talk dirty but think long and wistfully about the life that is passing them by. Their customers and girlfriends are just as lost, goofy and irrelevant. The budget for Kevin Smith's movie was $27,575, but he's the Chekhov of slacker life -- and maybe of America's secret life...
...film's central character is so uninvolving. Jennifer Jason Leigh's draggy performance as Parker is all studied accent (something vaguely mid- Atlantic but never before heard on Earth) and equally studied self-pity. Her sadness is attributed mainly to her failure to sexually consummate a relationship with her pal Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott). But this is a dithery and inconsequential tragedy, and it cannot sustain our sympathy, or our interest in this inept film...
...week ask your pal Carnesale...
Hoping tomake one of the links that might tie O.J. Simpson to the crime scene, prosecutors will compare the hair of his dog to that of Kato -- that's Nicole Brown Simpson's canine companion, not O.J.'s pal and sometime actor/talk-show host. According to court papers released last night, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito approved the prosecution request to take hair samples from Simpson's black Akita (name: Chachi) and Nicole Simpson's white-and-tan dog. O.J's lawyers didn't object. Dark hair, allegedly from a dog, were found on a knit cap discovered at the murder...