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...announced last week that MIKE MYERS will get $20 million to write and star in Sprockets, a feature film based on the forbiddingly avant-garde German talk-show host Dieter that he played on SNL. Of course, Myers will have some backup. Reportedly, one version of the script for Sprockets had a role for Baywatch mastermind David Hasselhoff as a villain who, on tour in Germany, kidnaps Dieter's monkey...
...real." Suddenly they had a faux cinema verite thriller. "We knew it was different, and a risk. But as rough and as raw as it was, we knew we should leave it alone." They had their movie. They trimmed the woods footage--"It was like we wrote the script during the editing," Myrick says--and used the other material for a devious docu-promo, Curse of the Blair Witch, that ran on the Sci-Fi Channel...
That's all good stuff, but the best thing about Bowfinger is the way the script by Steve Martin is tooled to his own and Murphy's comic strengths. At its best, Martin's screen character is a dislocating combination of yearning and take-no-prisoners opportunism. He's like a premoral child--appalling yet somehow charming. Murphy has the comic nerve to play stardom as a form of flat-out psychosis. His sweet side surfaces in the second character he plays, Kit's brother Jiff, whom Bobby hires as a part-time gofer, part-time stunt double, full-time...
...much attention was given to the special effects, which although nicely executed, were not enough to carry the script, characters, plot, or dialogue...
...smell," philosophizes one actor in the ten-minute version of Romeo and Juliet at the play's inception. Allusions to contemporary pop culture not only demonstrate Shakespeare's relevance, but allow the audience to play along with the actors' jokes. However, as clever and as brutally funny as the script is, The Compleat Works is an actor's tour de force. Amblad, Burke and Green give virtuosity-level performances in this zany comedy. Amblad's rendition of Juliet's Italian nurse is worlds apart from his despondent teenager routine as Romeo. Likewise, Green's portrayal of an alternately insane...