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...they remember him at all, most people think of Kaufman as the bashful foreign mechanic on the sitcom Taxi whose salutation "Tenk you veddy much" became a national catchphrase. But a small cult of hard-core fans reveres Kaufman as a performance artist who upended stand-up comedy to explore his inner child. He wrestled women for laughs, created a thuggish alter ego named Tony Clifton and never let on where the prankster stopped and the real person began. When he died of cancer in 1984, at 35, even close friends suspected a hoax...
...show that airs on Comedy Central Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. E.T., right after his game show. The new show gathers, with mixed results, a small group of culturemakers to discuss a single topic, like high school or growing up in Hollywood. And Stein is trying to develop a sitcom and launch a trivia website called Ben Stein's University. He also sings the theme song to his talk show. He has a full, bluesy, gravelly baritone...
...only finished product shown this fall has been an episode of the sitcom "The Asylum," which was shown in Loker two weeks...
...even more frustrating to think that the diluted sitcom treatment was a conscious choice for how to deal with the material, since the premise isn't original. The storyline, in which Chris O'Donnell inherits a lot of money on condition that he get married within 24 hours, is a remake of a 1925 Buster Keaton silent gem called Seven Chances. The put-upon bachelor first botches things with his steady girlfriend, then must propose to everyone he knows until a newspaper story phoned in by his friend brings a stampede of bridegowned fortune-seekers chasing him through town...
...Indeed, a clumsy and hackneyed remake like The Bachelor makes one yearn for the elegant tightness of the silent era. Go out and rent Seven Chances (and The General, while you're at it) and watch a couple of sitcom reruns, and you'll have outdone any sort of entertainment that The Bachelor has to offer...