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...networks doubted viewers would agree. But for a cable channel launching its first-ever series, Bull's risk seems worth the potential return. "We wanted to do something that would distinguish ourselves," says TNT programming president Robert DeBitetto. And Chernuchin was able to snag big-screen actors Stanley Tucci and Donald Moffat; Ryan O'Neal has signed for a guest spot...
...Joseph Mitchell (Tucci), a revered New Yorker writer, published an article about Joe Gould (Ian Holm), a Greenwich Village Bohemian who claimed to be writing a history of the world millions of words long. Twenty-two years later, Mitchell admitted that Gould's manuscript, except for a few fragments, didn't exist. Thereafter Mitchell could be heard typing in his office every day, but he never published another word. There's a great story here, but Tucci's literate, civilized, wistful movie lacks savage impulse and refuses to show how mutual exploitation led to minor tragedy...
DIED. NICCOLO TUCCI, 91, writer of witty and sardonic novels (Before My Time, Unfinished Funeral) and short stories, many with an autobiographical cast and a household of colorful characters; in New York City. Sample advice to novices: "First learn to write as if you were already dead, and then you will discover that you can write as if you were still alive...
...mogul Kenneth Cole and arts maven Kitty Carlisle Hart, among other luminaries. She then emerged to make a few standard-issue remarks and then--poof!--disappeared, even though she had a crowd of People Who Need No Introduction hoping for some quality time with her. Hey, there's Stanley Tucci, there's Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harry Belafonte, Bob Morgenthau. Warm and funny with her inner circle, she is as eager to flee a room as her husband is to win over every one in it. She doesn't welcome a rope line or shake a hand she doesn't have...
Hoffman stages their play-within-a-play with energetic conviction, and Bottom's misalliance with Titania, the fairy queen (Michelle Pfeiffer), is played with a certain sexy intensity. But the human lovers (who include Calista Flockhart as the comically obsessed Helena), muddled by the carelessness of Stanley Tucci's smug Puck with his love potions, don't achieve firm definition. Lacking the center of concern they might provide, this version of the play becomes a collection of well-loved scenes: dutiful but mostly unmagical...