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...maybe the Woman of the Future. For Nichols' film is also as modern as the 21st century challenge that faces America. How will the working class be educated to survive and thrive in the computer age? This intoxicating movie has an answer: let her strut her outer-borough wisdom from Wall Street to the Pacific Rim. Watch her fatten portfolios as she melts hearts. With working girls like Tess, America ain't down yet. -- Richard Corliss...
...slave's hands as though it were an Oscar and tells him to "thank the Academy." As Martin feigns death, Williams hovers over him, murmuring the pet name "Didi, Didi," then segues into the theme from The Twilight Zone. Martin is never so outrageous, but his familiar cool-guy strut and laid-back vocalisms keep him from inhabiting his character. Irwin is grayly competent as Lucky. The only really satisfying performance is Abraham's. Hugely self-satisfied in the first act, blind and pathetic in the second, he steals the show by simply acting his role while the stars...
Davidson also manages to coordinate his unwieldy cast; the actors never bump into each other because they exit awkwardly or stand in the wrong place. And as they strut and fret their four hours upon the stage, the players really could be acting our Everyman before a medieval audience...
...extends to the contest stage. The battle is to win, not to beat the other guy. " 'We' is the competition," notes a Chief of Staffer. No candy-shirted drunks around a barber pole at this convention. For the final rounds, the costuming is ingenious. Houston's Inns 'n Outts strut onstage painted up as the four gray visages of Mount Rushmore. A Virginia quartet appears as clowns. Florida's Sidekicks prance on as doctors and plumbers. But the twelve judges are looking for more than slapstick. "Too much theatrics detract from sound quality," sniffs...
Gold medals on their necks, the weary champs strut into the night. Now they must "take Kathleen home again" at a string of receptions, where they will be expected to sing till dawn. But none of the four is unhappy at the thought. "Where else," asks tenor Tim McShane, a utility-company dispatcher, "can I hear such applause? Where can I be such a weekend star...