Word: sitcomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like a bishop at good news and just as quickly turn to wheedling for his job. Running herd on these macho individualists is the consummate organization man, Williamson (J.T. Walsh). What is this, an MTM sitcom gone bilious? No, more like The Front Page staged in the lower depths...
...streets, porno on the screens and larceny in the heart. And New York City women? Talk about pushy. Take Rhoda. Please. She was meant to be the quintessential New York woman, and she stood out like a kosher pickle on Minneapolis white bread. In the land of sitcoms, New York has rarely been a laughing matter. In fact, there has not been a successful sitcom set in the Big Apple since Taxi drove onto the screen in 1978, and with the exception of Rhoda no single woman has found a home there since Marlo Thomas perkily impersonated That Girl...
...from your mind; rethink Jane; forget Boy; above all, abandon hope that Cheeta the chimp will skitter on to provide not only the movie's best acting but its only conscious comic relief as well. All of that was admittedly fun, as if the cast of a suburban sitcom had been dropped down in the African hinterlands, told to undress and act natural. But Burroughs, that dauntlessly prolific pop fictioneer, had something more important on his mind when he dreamed up Tarzan: nothing less than the creation of a mythic figure who would encapsulate the Edwardian...
...idea of mating sitcom material with a surrealist style seems, at first glance, to have about as much promise of permanent delight as a pickup in a singles bar. And by the end of The Lonely Guy, even the film's best friends may feel that some aesthetic counseling is in order. Yet for a movie that once again takes up a matter made achingly familiar by contemporary song and story - the hardships and confusions of the single life - it offers some curiously arresting visions: the rooftops of New York City crowded with men howling the names of women...
...next thing I was going to read," he said, "was The Right Stuff. " Goodman also watched Syrian television, which to his surprise carried old John Wayne movies and episodes of the television sitcom Gimme a Break. Goodman found his guards' occasional kindness "unnerving," mixed as it was with humiliating, false assurances of imminent release...