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...moral of this funny and acerbic family novel is, Don't give your clever eight-year-old anything to write about. Do not twit, tease, appall, amuse, behave weirdly in the presence of, or otherwise give fertile novelistic material to, the sort of shrewd moppet who may someday find a publisher...
...last question: Who has learned that size doesn't count as much as insouciance? Why, Andrew Lloyd Webber. His By Jeeves, a radical overhaul of his 1975 flop show, is a delight in miniature. Based on P.G. Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...
...Warner remains the choice of Republican barons. Bob Dole and his likely successor as majority leader, Trent Lott, have helped him raise an intimidating war chest. On the Virginia side the party is dominated by Buchanan-style conservatives who want the senior Senator's scalp. His counterattack is to twit Miller for accepting his help two years ago and to cast his own deviations from conservative orthodoxy as principled ones. "It is the way I have lived my life," Warner says. But his advertising betrays his nervousness. A sailor in World War II and a Marine officer in Korea...
...Character Issue: Pierce Brosnan is not as gravely witty as Sean Connery, not as insouciant as Roger Moore and not a pompous twit like Timothy Dalton. He's a mid-range James Bond, on whom a certain self-consciousness has been imposed. He continues to register emotions mainly by arching or furrowing an eyebrow. But in the age of sexual correctness they have cut back his double entendres, and people keep telling him he lacks the capacity for mature relationships with women. Worse, he seems to believe them. What next? Sensitivity training? A condom in his wallet? Teetotaling, with perhaps...
...smaller roles are all well-played: of special note is Seph McNamara's Horatio, stalwart and strong, and Kirk Hanson's Guildenstern, a truly insufferable twit...