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starring Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis and Jack Evans...

Author: By Jason Frydman, | Title: No 'Bones' About This Hit | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

Filmmakers today are desperately stalking an elusive, yet deliciously lucrative genre--the cult classic. Peter Chelsom's new "Funny Bones" is one of the few to capture the capricious beast. The film, starring Oliver Platt (the dramaturg-thug of "Bullets Over Broadway"), brilliantly walks a tightrope between absurdist comedy and tragedy without ever missing a step...

Author: By Jason Frydman, | Title: No 'Bones' About This Hit | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

starring Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Disney Stands Tall with `Tales' | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

...than just the embodiment of testosterone-identified values. After a little initial prickliness between them ("Stay away from my horse, or he'll kill you"), Pecos decides to help Daniel save his farm and his family. On their way, they round up some other legendary figures: Paul Bunyan (Oliver Platt) and John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Disney Stands Tall with `Tales' | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

...truth there is pain; in pain there is laughter. That might be Brooks' motto, in comedy and life. Brooklyn-born, New Jersey-bred, Jim was a lonely child whose father had left home. "In I'll Do Anything," says Platt, "I think he is unconsciously, or consciously, investigating what might have happened to him had his father not left, if he had not been raised by his mother and sister." After New York University, he worked for CBS as a newswriter, then in 1966 moved to Los Angeles to make TV documentaries. Three years later, he created the series Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Lucky Jim? | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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