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...playwright, he creates characters related by theme, in skits that never peter out. At his fiercest, he confronts audiences with the daily ugliness they try to screen out, from deranged bums urinating in the subway to drug freaks convinced that violence is the answer, whatever the question is, to smug suburban successes siring second families who want only to forget their offspring from Wife...
...affected--even for the obvious dilettante the young Victorian is supposed to be. While Algernon is supposed to know he's being insufferable, the actor playing him should not let his own self-knowledge of how funny his lines are show through. Mondy's performance is a bit smug, particularly in the first...
When we meet him, C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) is giving rather smug lectures about the blessed necessity for suffering in our life: "Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world," he happily informs his listeners...
...giving the Indian perspective on American history, the films cannot resist a few cheap shots. When Iroquois representatives visit the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, they get warm praise from Benjamin Franklin. "Well done, Franklin," a colleague confides later. "You do know your savages." (Franklin's smug reply: "Thank you.") Still, these films show that TV history can do more than just confirm our prejudices and indulge our nostalgia (as in the recent orgy of Kennedy retrospectives). It can actually tell us something...
Friends don't let friends go to Harvard," reads the back of one t-shirt now for sale in New Haven. Calvin and Hobbes, presumably Yale undergrads, walk off together in smug satisfaction that they have chosen The Right School...or have they...