Word: shyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers). But this satire of motherhood in the fast lane can be clever: Mom tells little Elizabeth over the phone, "I'll be home in half a Sesame Street." The Big Band music and Woody Allen-like intertitles give Baby Boom a stylish, non-sitcomy sheen...
...clubby and litigious world of medicine, doctors have been reluctant to finger incompetent colleagues. A high-court decision last week is likely to make them even shyer. The case, closely tracked by the medical community, involved Surgeon Timothy Patrick. In 1981 a peer-review panel was considering ending his privileges at the only hospital in Astoria, Ore., on the grounds of substandard patient care. Patrick resigned and sued the doctors in a rival practice, who had initiated and participated in the proceedings against him. His claim: conspiracy to eliminate a competitor. Though the law partly protects physicians who serve...
Written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers...
Directed by Charles Shyer...
...Neal is, as ever, good at earnest befuddlement; Long is marvelously febrile in both misery and triumph. Screenwriters Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer (who here makes his directorial debut) appear to have been up and down and to have learned that both are bad news; they also display a familiarity with the life and films of Peter Bogdanovich. Only in their reach for a reconciling ending do they betray the cool ferocity of their approach. They may love old movies as much as their protagonist does, but they should know that, for good or ill, Frank Capra has retired...