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...each other. At the official festival -- the most important annual showcase for independent American films -- 32 fiction and nonfiction features competed for prizes this year, and dozens more pictures were given special screenings and premieres, ranging from major studio releases (Reality Bites, starring Winona Ryder and directed by Ben Stiller) to a selection of offerings from Latin American and Native American filmmakers...
...ideas too dumb to believe (Woops!, a sitcom about the survivors of nuclear holocaust) and others almost too good to be true (The Simpsons). If the young audience hooked on Fox signature hits like Beverly Hills, 90210 has had little patience for more sophisticated efforts like The Ben Stiller Show or Tribeca, well, that's the price for cultivating a niche...
...hobby handicaps horse races. Klugman plays a boozing, brawling professional bettor who discovers that Randall never picks the wrong horse and press-gangs him into partnership. In lesser roles are such familiar stage and screen faces as John Beal, Joey Faye, Ellen Greene, Julie Hagerty, Zane Lasky and Jerry Stiller. With John Tillinger, one of the ablest directors of comedy, at the helm, the show gives every promise of amusement...
...Gary Stiller, who represented the CentralSquare Neighborhood Coalition on the committee,said that the shelter "does not need to be locatednear the center of town to be effec
...Stiller's most brilliant creation may be Michael Pheret, a smarmy Hollywood agent who in a recurring bit is seen giving insipid career advice to real-life celebrities like Roseanne Arnold and the rap group Run-D.M.C. In his compulsive blabbering -- a cascade of fawning hyperbole and whatever-you-want- to-hear insincerity -- Stiller rises above simple media parody. He gets at the heart of the whole phony, pathetic show-business ethos...