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...claiming this switch on an ancient show-biz truism is an expiring actor's last words, but My Favorite Year's writers and director are sometimes too determined to make it seem as comfortable as possible. The script occasionally ladles warm chicken soup over situations where a spritz in the face would be more appropriate. There are times when Actor Richard Benjamin, making his debut as a feature-film director, is too content with a scene's obvious values to find a handle to twist the comedy tighter...
...billion gal. a day of H2O that gush through the city's faucets are fresher, clearer and "more stimulating" than all 37 varieties of commercial bottled water tested. For those who insist on decanting their liquids, Macy's is even selling the stuff with a spritz of carbonation under the gold label: CELEBRATED NEW YORK WATER -THE DRINK OF MILLIONS. The price...
...John A. Spritz, an English major who said last week he was "scared off" by Option III because he had heard it was "rather confining," agrees with Polonsky that very little feedback or encouragement comes to writers at Harvard. "Most of the writing here is going on quietly in the middle of the night. People put stuff in drawers and you never hear about it," Spritz said...
...tone of the show is overwhelmingly comic, the three or four serious, romantic songs that sneak in are a little jarring--you're kind of waiting for the punch line and feel silly when it doesn't come. But these numbers are all so good in themselves--particularly John Spritz's "Out There," a sad and realistic tale of two people who should get together but just miss the connection--that they deserve to be included...
...critic Goldman brilliantly conveys his reckoning of Bruce as a kind of artistic genius who falls outside of all high-brow categories. Bruce was a great stand-up comic, a vital master of the "spritz." But the "spritz" belongs in what is called "popular culture"; it is urban folk art. Bruce is an urban American primitive, a Jewish Leadbelly. And besides Goldman such folk art hasn't yet enlisted too many serious students. Goldman has staked out a new region that promises to be a "field of the future" among scholars and critics. Through his magazine articles and essays...