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...Newhart plays Manfred Link, the President of the United States, who is simultaneously seeking reelection and some way to control his daughter's (Gilda Radner) irrepressible urge to "do it" and his wife's (Madeline Kahn) alcoholic intake. The story also concerns the efforts of the Link administration to gain the United Naitons' vote of a country called Upper Gorm. When the Upper Gormese ambassador visits the White House, he announces that Link and the first family have agreed to visit his country. Unfortunately, the president and his staff don't know a thing about...
...sensation to be searching for comic relief in a comedy. But certain smoggy patches of Lunch Hour do tend to induce that quest. Possibly the two funniest moments in Act I are Gilda Radner sparring with a spilled pot of coffee and juggling a scalding-hot spoon, and Sam Waterston watching the page proofs of his upcoming book unreel inexorably into a goldfish tank. All of which goes to prove that Director Mike Nichols is still a playwright's best friend...
...cast up by the tide, an urchin messenger, shod in jogging sneakers, knocks on Oliver's door. This is Carrie (Gilda Radner), a child bride of 22 going on eleven. She heartbrokenly announces that Nora is having an affair with her husband Peter. Peter (David Rasche), a multimillionaire, "is rich for a living," and he must have spied Carrie from his private jet, since he could scarcely have been smitten by her at Polaroid range...
Lunch Hour might have been better served by a different star. Gilda Radner is referred to as a waif, and tries to mimic scatterbrained vulnerability; but it does not wash. She radiates tensile strength. If she were crossing the Arctic wastes and her Huskies died, she could and would tow the dog sled to the Pole. That invincible force happens to be wrong for this play...
...terrible actor then-we laugh about it now-and totally charming." Dougherty also turned up Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Stalmaster's finds include Jon Voight (four lines in Hour of the Gun), James Caan (a silent reaction in Irma La Douce) and Gilda Radner (an other silent bit in The Last Detail...