Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe we ought to just forget it--bury romantic comedy in the graveyard of genres dearly departed and move on. It was unquestionably the loveliest invention of the movies' golden age. But ours is not the golden age of anything--certainly not of romance or of high wit, surely not of that tolerant class consciousness that animated so many of those 1930s comedies. You know the old drill: rich boy meets poor girl (or vice versa), the disparities in their backgrounds--the very thing that first attracted them--sunders their romance until, defying convention, they get together at last...
...master display of slapdash comedy. But director Joe Pytka, who also did the McDonald's TV spot that cued the film, too often stands slack-jawed before the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness of his live-action star. The movie could have been a gleaming showcase for cartoon wit. Instead it's an 87-minute commercial peddling sainthood for Michael Jordan...
During the past 46 years, Bob Hope, 93, has brought his dry wit to 285 NBC specials. This month the network airs his last, Laughing with the Presidents, a tribute to the comic's friendship with every Chief Executive from F.D.R. to Bill Clinton. Hope has called the White House his "favorite bed-and-breakfast." During no other hour of television will you find appearances by both Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tony Danza...
...Murray is on hand for a brief master display of slapdash comedy. But "Space Jam, directed by Joe Pytka, is mainly about the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness of its live-action star," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. "The film could have been a gleaming showcase for cartoon wit. Instead it's an 87-minute commercial peddling sainthood for Michael Jordan...
...past 12:30 a.m. on election night this past Tuesday. David Brinkley, the veteran anchor, took the president to task for being the do-nothing milk-mustached little boy that he is. "We can all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection--plus more goddamned nonsense," Brinkley wonderfully declaimed. Perhaps it is due to the fact that Brinkley is to retire after tomorrow's "This Week" that the heroic news man unleashed such ire at the Politco of Politicos, at a guy who might just as well...