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What a shame it was for the comics of the first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...
...Each sketch pivots on a chance meeting that leads to romantic betrayal. In the first episode, a young woman hears that her beau is seeing other women; she decides to trump his perfidy only to find herself caught in an elaborate farce. In the third, a painter ditches his date to track a more sensitive type, who happens to be on her honeymoon. The plot mechanics don't interest Rohmer as much as the posturing beneath the would-be lovers' informed chatter and, beneath that, the hidden pain and expectations of rapture...
Todd Solondz's "Welcome to the Dollhouse" is still one of the most imaginative comedies in the theaters today, a carefully observed tour-de-force of detail and character sketch that will seem eerily familiar to those of us who served our time in suburban public schools. The fact that Solondz is a new filmmaker-- "Dollhouse" received the highest possible prize at this year's Sundance film festival-- gives hopes that the unevenness of this film will balance out into a smooth, steady vision in future films...
...additional charges will come forward, most notably for the bomb that killed New Jersey marketing executive Thomas Mosser in December 1994. Among the new incidents is a 1987 Salt Lake City bombing in which the only known eye-witness sighting of the Unabomber led to the widely-distributed FBI sketch of a mustachioed man in a hooded sweatshirt with aviator-style sunglasses. -->