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...because they show us people who are laughably horrible in some way; for the first time in a while, we have a reality show focused on someone who seems to be a decent guy with a normal family.What happened, Run? You used to raise hell, dude!Out of PracticeHenry Winkler and Stockard Channing ’65 star in this “comedy” from the writers of “Frasier.” Channing looks to have just been resuscitated from some experiment in cryogenics. She’s scary...
This is serious material, and you cannot blame serious filmmakers--the movie was written by Jay Cocks (formerly a TIME critic) and directed by Irwin Winkler, producer of some of the best movies (Raging Bull, The Right Stuff) of recent times--for being seduced by it. But something goes terribly wrong in the execution. Kline suggests Porter's intractable snootiness but none of his perpetually boyish elan. Judd mostly simpers. The Porters had, it seems, a marriage of inconvenience, leavened in the movie by glam settings, the irrelevant appearances of famous people and, of course, the tunes Porter is occasionally...
...different sort of failure inherent in the system is its seemingly facile manipulation. Several years ago, producer Irwin Winkler (Rocky, Goodfellas) revealed a frequently employed studio tactic. “The ratings board will say, ‘There are seven things that we don’t like about this film.’ The director might have put in four of them that he doesn’t even want, so that when he goes back to the ratings board, he says, ‘Well, look, I took out four of them...
...rationale for acquiring Compaq has not changed, they argue. By buying Compaq's vast product portfolio, R.-and-D. muscle, direct-sales channel and 34,000 tech-service pros, HP could thwart IBM and Dell. "Analysts are waiting for us to put points on the scoreboard," says Michael Winkler, Fiorina's executive vice president for operations. (Fiorina declined to be interviewed...
Directed by Lauren M. Winkler...