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...Amuse-confuse was in the air in the late ?70s and early ?80s. In the comedy clubs, performers like Albert Brooks, Andy Kaufman, Harry Shearer and Art Metrano were blazing the conceptual trail of "post-funny comedy." Kaufman would play the Mighty Mouse theme on an old phonograph, or read long passages from The Great Gatsby, or assume the guise of obnoxious Tony Clifton, all to the discomfort of an audience who might have come to hear jokes. Metrano donned a tux and sang, endlessly, the old razzmatazz "Fine and Dandy," but only the notes...
...BRAVE ONE Jodie Foster, returning to the sexual-attack theme of her Oscar-winning The Accused, plays a New York City radio personality who responds to an assault by going on her own private revenge spree. Neil Jordan, whose The Crying Game got a big Toronto boost 15 years ago, directs...
...Edwards believes that Obama will fade, as Bradley did, giving him a clean shot at Clinton. So far, Obama isn't cooperating, and Clinton is trying to triangulate her differences with Edwards and Obama by being the candidate of "change and experience," someone who sees the "invisible people"-a theme Edwards used off and on for months...
...songs--perfecting an easygoing, unironic manner that was seemingly impervious to the winds of change. Far more than a TV personality, though, the former Big Band singer was also a creator and entrepreneur. In 1964 he came up with Jeopardy! (A jack of all trades, he wrote the theme music for the Final Jeopardy answer as well.) A decade later, he invented history's most successful game show, Wheel of Fortune. When he died, he was in the midst of creating a new game, Crosswords. Some called his shows lowest-common-denominator fluff, but Griffin drew those huge audiences with...
Will it work? Green is a natural fit on cable lifestyle shows or news programs--though enlisting a news division to do advocacy has its own issues. But commanding a sitcom like The Office to work in an earnest environmental theme sounds like the kind of high-handed p.r. directive that might be satirized on, well, The Office. Even Begley--formerly of St. Elsewhere--notes that the movie Chinatown worked because it kept the subplot about the water supply in Los Angeles well in the background: "It's a story about getting away with murder, and the water story...