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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from Mr. Bush on some matter, and the giggles start to rise again, but it is not the same as when he led the free world. The country needs a funny President, and Clinton is not it. To be truly funny, a U.S. President has to 1) have real wit, like Lincoln and J.F.K.; 2) be a sort of caricature, like Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Coolidge and F.D.R.; 3) act with such consistency in one's decisions and policies that the very predictability becomes a hoot; or 4) have done something that really merits the use of a special prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAY IT AGAIN, DICK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...steals the show as the head of a truly diabolical New York law firm that snags Keanu Reeves' hotshot Souhtern lawyer and quickly enmeshes him in a half-kinky, half-campy world of sin and decadence. Borrowing from The Firm and Rosemary's Baby without quite matching either in wit or originality, it tends to flag whenever Pacino's off screen. Fortunately, he's never away for long and treats us to a devilishly good time...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, | Title: Devil's Advocate | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

Kennedy never resolved the conflict--nor have we, nor will we. He was a driven philanderer at one moment. In the next he was a grand romantic who, with insight, eloquence and wit, sought a place among the legends Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSY IN BED, BUT ALSO IN BERLIN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

This nasty little film is veteran director Sidney Lumet's uncharacteristically amateurish attempt at medical satire. Its flaws lie not in the performances (the degree of talent represented in the picture is substantial), but in Steven S. Schwartz's misguided screenplay. Rather than tackle issues with wit and intelligence, Schwartz chooses to use insultingly phony characters to reveal the faults of the modern health care machine through their broadly drawn flaws. A painful exercise in unrealized potential...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, | Title: Critical Care | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...steals the show as the head of a truly diabolical New York law firm that snags Keanu Reeves' hotshot Souhtern lawyer and quickly enmeshes him in a half-kinky, half-campy world of sin and decadence. Borrowing from The Firm and Rosemary's Baby without quite matching either in wit or originality, it tends to flag whenever Pacino's off screen. Fortunately, he's never away for long and treats us to a devilishly good time with his rip-roaring over-the-topic antics...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, | Title: Devil's Advocate | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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