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...about the Iran-contra scandal. Reagan still thinks he does not know all the details of the Iranian arms shipments and the subsequent funneling of profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. "Everybody keeps saying that they want all the facts," says this ally. "My God, so does he!" In his radio broadcast Saturday, the President regretfully conceded that "the execution of these policies was flawed, and mistakes were made...
...wife on the corner, and they got stuck to each other. Mr. Jacobs, the tailor, is blowing hot steam on them." His grandfather, as always, sees nothing funny in Eugene's whimsy. Weeks later, Eugene moves out to start a new life as a comedy writer for network radio in Manhattan. His grandfather, ever wary of affection, wonders whether he will have to endure a parting embrace. Eugene replies, "I'm going to kiss you right on the lips. They're going to have to pull us apart." This time his grandfather gets the joke...
...their contributions to the aura of heightened naturalism. Jonathan Silverman, who replaced Matthew Broderick as Eugene in Brighton Beach and Biloxi Blues and in the Brighton Beach movie, adeptly handles the dancing sequence, and he is exquisitely funny as the family listens to his and his brother's first radio sketch: he keeps covering his face, then peering out with mounting horror as he realizes that they realize that he meant it all to be about them. Chunky Jason Alexander, with his spark-plug, salesman's personality, plays a characterization of Eugene's brother Stanley that has shifted radically since...
...Jerome brothers are screaming at each other about how to write a radio skit. Eugene, the younger, keeps tossing out what he thinks are funny situations. Stanley insists on order and method. The keys to comedy, he says, are "conflict" and "wanting," and every detail must make sense. Eugene demands, "It's just a comedy sketch. Does it have to be so logical?" Stanley, the self-appointed teacher, replies, "It's not funny if it's not believable...
Eugene and Stanley are calming each other after a too-dose-to-home radio sketch has alienated their father. Eugene ashamedly admits he meant the parallels, adding, "There's part of my head that makes me this nice, likable, funny kid. And there's the other part, the part that writes, that's an angry, hostile, real son of a bitch." Stanley retorts, "Well, you'd better make friends with the son of a bitch because he's the one who's going to make you a big living...