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Have you looked at the best-seller list lately? I mean, it's like browsing through the Sunday TV listings. Couplehood, by Mad About You co-star Paul Reiser, has been in the Top 10 for the past eight weeks. Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, by Home Improvement's Tim Allen, just landed at No. 1. Jerry Seinfeld's SeinLanguage spent five weeks in the top spot last fall and is about to come out in paperback. Dennis Miller, Garry Shandling and Ellen DeGeneres (star of ABC's Ellen) have books in the works...
Real books start on page 1; Reiser starts his on page 145. "This way," he goes, "you can read the book for two minutes, and if anybody asks you how far along you are you can say, 'I'm on 151 -- and it's really flying."' Like we really need help getting through these books. "Hey, this chapter on Wittgenstein's phenomenology is a real stumper. Hand me the dictionary...
...Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera. "An affordable musical" by Dave Reiser and Jack Sharkey (authors of Jekyll Hydes Again! and "Not the Count of Monte Cristo?!"), this musical farce is designed for threadbare theater groups with a taste for tastelessness. "Welcome to the opera!" the opening number announces. "Where gals with lung disease/ Can hit high Cs with ease!/ Their doom is sure to please/ The connoisseur...
Love and War seems even more artificial when compared with Mad About You, the season's best new sitcom. Paul and Jamie (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt) are Manhattan newlyweds with no cute eccentricities, no clashing political views, no comical disparities in social background. Their problems are the little ones that occur when even compatible people are tossed into the same house together for the first time. Just getting out of the apartment in the morning is a Feydeau farce: she rushes back to open the window (the dog needs air), he rushes back to close it (a burglar might...
...Reiser, a former stand-up comic, has knife-edge timing and a full repertoire of nervous tics, and Hunt manages to be both charming and exasperating at the same time. One sign of a sitcom that cares more about its characters than its gag lines: when Paul and Jamie start to fight, they ask their dinner guests to leave the room -- carrying their potential wisecracks with them. Privacy is one concept that becomes more precious with...