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...SHORTY A movie-mad mobster (dreamy, incisive John Travolta) reinvents himself as a movie mogul. He's a real shark chewing up Hollywood's rubbery simulacrums while helping some bottom feeders rise to the top in Barry Sonnenfeld's jaunty, well-acted comedy of bad manners...
Like all of Hollywood's self-satires, Get Shorty understands that movie people are, by nature and calling, melodramatists, with an unfortunate tendency to get self-love, self-loathing and self-pity all mixed up. Screenwriter Scott Frank and director Barry Sonnenfeld also understand that the proper response to all that confusion is not heavy-hitting moralism but wry compassion. And a good-humored respect for the gumption and cunning of people whose lives forever hinge on whether or not their phone calls get returned...
...world's nuttiness, which includes, of course, his own. There's something uncalculated about what he does, as if he's always wondering how the next sentence is going to come out, how he's going to surprise both himself and everyone watching him. "When I said, 'Action,'" says Sonnenfeld, "I never knew if he would do the next take in English, Japanese, Spanish or French. It's really hard not to play with John. He's got this big bag of toys, and you become a kid around him and want to play with his games...
...There are whole cadres of conspiracy theorists who latch onto this notion of Malone and Turner overthrowing Levin," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at Emory Business School. "I don't see it. With support from Turner and Malone, Levin has a lot of new strength." Still, Malone and Levin must co-exist--and that may not be easy. Where Levin's style is subtle and elliptical, Malone's is famously brusque and blunt. Where Levin is slight and professorial, Malone has the square-jawed mien of the off-duty general--and the tactics to match. An executive who knows...
...both its director (Barry Sonnenfeld) and its writer (Paul Rudnick) have been at pains to point out, the Addamses are a truly functioning, happily extended family, impervious to the discontents of middle-class civilization. Mom and Dad are passionately in love with each other, beamily indulgent of their children and entirely happy in their chosen life-style. "Is the pain unbearable?" Gomez inquires hopefully as Morticia is wheeled into the delivery room, and her enraptured smile is all the answer he requires...