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...Wonderful Life, and everybody reads Ulysses on Bloomsday, Thanksgiving is a holiday in need of some tradition that the culture industry can market. Why not Arlo Guthrie? The war in Vietnam may well be long past, but we're all getting older. With the same wit he used so well in civic protest, Guthrie demonstrates how to fade into obscurity while inviting no pity. If you missed him this year--and if you want to get old without getting stupid--mark next year's calendar...
...Stephen Herek) remains blessed with the wickedest of all Disney witches, Cruella De Vil. She's as determined as she was in 1961 to have a coat made of puppy-dog skins, still employs variously addled henchmen to work her will and is still thwarted by the combined wit of what appears to be most of the Britain's fauna. For us dog saps, it is especially nice to see cuddlesomely real pooches instead of drawn ones doing smart-pet tricks. Fans of the high-diva mode will doubtless feel the same about Glenn Close's Cruella. In (creepy) flesh...
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...