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Ultimately, the movie only follows well-worn paths, trotting out a revelation-of-main-character's-big-secret scene, the shock-of-love-interest-at-betrayal/breathless-reconciliations scene, even a sappy speech about identity that Al Franken's Stuart Smalley could have written. After the vicious stand-up comic scene and another superbly funny nightmare sequence (again, alas, tainted with a gaseous joke or two), the movie simply gets tiresome. It's as if the movie's taking a collective funny potion now and then, having enormously concentrated effects, and then abating, painfully. Even Murphy's Buddy Love fizzles toward...
...part, says he wants Huffington to help his credibility by doing all her coverage in a negligee. While Franken looks forward to offending "a few Republican delegates who don't have a sense of humor, who'll get mad at me," he may also slip into Stuart Smalley mode. "I'm going to reach for common ground. I'm going to show that a complete nut-case right-winger and I can get along...
...small, hushed crowd outside Preston Crown Court watched as the two white police vans drove away. "It's hard to believe they did it," remarked James Livesey, 69. "It could have been a prank that went wrong," said Colette Smalley, mother of an eight-month-old, "but maybe we want to believe that -- it's too horrific to think otherwise." The vans' two occupants, 11-year- old boys with tidy haircuts, had just left the ornate, oak-paneled Court 1, where the floor of the dock had been raised a foot to allow them to see over the brass rail...
...Dragon His Feet (Mark Baskin) is stolen unabashedly from Stuart Smalley, the Alan S. Franken '73 character on Saturday Night Live, Baskin is excellent as the co-dependent lizard, the "self-help salamander." His song, "Stop Dragon Your Heart Around," is fun, albeit a little long...
...Please don't believe television or the movies about what psychology is like. We [at the Bureau of Study Counsel] don't do any of that self-affirmation stuff," Ducey says, referring to the Stuart Smalley self-affirmation skits on Saturday Night Live...