Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nine or 10 people who are on the [national] waiting list die every day. In Massachusetts the situation is particularly acute," said Tana Sherman, communications coordinator of The Partnership for Organ Donation...
...BRAD SHERMAN Democrat--California 24th Despite his controversial stand in favor of taxing cartoon reproductions, Sherman will continue his party's 52-year hold on this district...
Klump's new identity consists of a smaller waistline and an enormous ego--in truth, a highly concentrated version of early Eddie Murphy himself. Klump/Love is literally a pivotal role for Murphy. At one moment, he is playing Sherman Klump as a full and sympathetic character, a performance where others might have relied on the novelty of girth. A splitsecond later he turns around and goes back to his old tricks until they self-destruct. The now-tired, brazen "Beverly Hills Cop"-type character of old--outrageous and obnoxious arrogance, hilarious, often vulgar one-liners--is exaggerated and mocked...
...character before our eyes and demonstrating other abilities through Klump, he isn't helped by the generally low-grade comedy that pervades much of the film. Boring flatulence jokes gradually steam roll over the otherwise superbly sick Klump family portrait (a lewd grandmother talking forever of "relations"; Sherman's babying mother who believes a baby's first step unimportant compared to his first roof-rumbling belch). Soon Klump's post-transformation celebration turns idiotic and offensive; it's as if "Eddie Murphy Raw" took over and started telling stand-up jokes about women's exercise...
Ironically, one of the finest parts of the film involves Murphy attacking a mean stand-up comedian. Buddy Love returns with his date to the Def Comedy Jamtype comic (Dave Chapelle) who before had made public mockery of him as Sherman Klump. Turning heckler, Buddy begins by sarcastically praising the comic for his ability to pick out and pick on people for their weaknesses. Thereafter, things turn ugly for the poor guy: in a sequence owing a lot to Steve Martin's nose-joke routine in a bar in "Roxanne," Buddy proceeds to roast the comic to a crisp. Where...