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SOUTHERN COMFORT ADS: Ads for the drink of choice of 4-by-4 owners are running in slick magazines like Elle and Spin and feature dreadlocked guys playing the saxophone. Next, Quaker State motor...
Twilight often resembles a couple of far less weighty Jewish family comedies now on Broadway, The Sisters Rosensweig and a slick new romance between sexagenarians, Mixed Emotions -- except it isn't nearly as good. Arvin Brown's ham-fisted direction leads to stilted acting from everyone save Sbarge and Michael Spound as his whiny brother...
...fresher and has more complex echoes for our own era. The near-miss campaign of socialist Upton Sinclair for Governor of California in 1934, the subject of one full episode, is like an event from prehistoric times; it can't happen here anymore. Yet the account of Hollywood's slick media campaign to defeat him might have come from a 1993 campaign adviser's handbook. The newsreel footage showing police trying to "rout out nests of communists hiding in empty boxcars" seems quaintly dated. Yet the headlines of plant closings and shots of homeless people on the streets look, alas...
Unfortunately, the advertisements featured seem to show more desperation than ingenuity. Rather than the wacky commercials you'd expect, the Cannes festival celebrates the more traditional (although admittedly slick) advertisement, showing a disappointingly large number of car, beer and perfume...
...Undergraduate Council is back in session and, like a slick new car just off a Detroit assembly line, it's got a whole new look. Unfortunately, like many a revamped American cruiser, it has a shaky model history to go with...