Word: plot
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...plot at first seems loosely defined--you feel almost as if the clowns are couple of kids playing dress-up and making up the story as they go along. Mump and Smoot add to this impression with the kind of improvisation and audience interaction that come naturally to two veterans of Toronto's prestigious Second City improve troupe...
Some people might be bothered by a sense that there is no carefully scripted plot driving the action forward. If they're patient, though, they might just realize that all the seemingly random gags are precisely planned, and that the entire show is a tight cycle following a bizarre internal logic...
Even more interesting than the unfolding of the plot, though, is the interaction between Mump and Smoot and the way that they manage to create complex characters without the aid of intelligible language. Mump seems first merely to be the straight man to Smoot's comic. But Mump is also clearly the leader: arrogant, self-assured, and at times abusive to his sidekick. Smoot is the underdog the audience roots for--but he is also wily, vindictive, and--with the audience's help--even manages to one-up Mump a time or two. Both characters grapple with moral issues usually...
Hanks is a kid again in director Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump. Slow-witted and likable, Forrest races through the rubble of the '50s, '60s and '70s. Thanks to novelist Winston Groom's cunning plot (Eric Roth wrote the script) and some nifty visual effects, Forrest pops up in many a historic venue: with George Wallace at the schoolhouse door, in the seared rice fields of Vietnam, along the Great Wall of China, at the Watergate Hotel during a third-rate burglary. As his mother and his pals die around him, he pursues his life's love; the movie might...
...merger were a TV series, then everything up to now would be just the pilot. Consider the potential plot twists. For a start, the CBS and QVC boards do not convene (separately) to discuss the merger until July 13. "It's not like the board is coming in tomorrow ratifying to do it," says a TV industry executive who is close to both Diller and Tisch. "It's not coming in for another 10 days! You got the July Fourth weekend -- what do you think is going to happen over that time? A lot of meetings. You can name...