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...avoid. It's a slim but labored farce about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who can't make love without having his father's socks around and the psychiatrist (Edward Herrmann) who has taken them away. The stale shrink jokes wouldn't pass muster on an average episode of Seinfeld, not to mention Shanley's own better work, like his flavorful screenplay for Moonstruck. What Hollywood gave Shanley was discipline--and Cher...
...evaluate my own loyalties. If the Yankees moved to Honolulu, would I still be a Yankee fan? What if they moved to New Jersey? Am I actually a fan not of "New York" per se, but of big business? Am I, in the words of Jerry Seinfeld, 'rooting for shirts...
...realized only recently from the depths of the balcony in Sanders that teaching a lecture course is quite a different task for leading a seminar or section. Professors, while not exactly stand-up comedians (live, in Sanders, Jerry Seinfeld on evolution!), do have the difficult job of keeping students entertained. And they must do this without the benefit of discussion among all the participants...
...programming of the future would consist of "predeconstructed" shows like Beavis and Butt-head, in which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own programs. The ideal would be to remove oneself from experience while engaging in experience and to make experience deliberately fleeting. The structure of the sitcom Seinfeld continued to depend on dozens of fast-moving, bite-size scenes that simulate the effect of surfing while remaining within a single coherent situation, thus pre-empting the viewer's urge to switch channels. Attention spans remained brief. Control remained remote...
...Seinfeld (NBC) The granddaddy of modern urban sitcoms is still hipper, still wittier than its offspring. Now in its eighth season, the show has maintained its brilliant comic rhythms and dark undertones, and this season boasts some of the most original episodes ever. Kramer's stash of Japanese businessmen--need we say more...