Word: wittiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more likely to spot Chet Baker in a Naples jazz club than an upstate prison sickroom. The movie probably won't make any top-ten lists this winter--it's good, but it's not quite that deep--but I'll be damned if it doesn't have the wittiest opening credit sequence of the year. It's a not-so-subtle allusion to 1950's credits wiz Saul Bass, and the mere echo works wonders to situate the film within a specific time period, genre and tone. You can practically smell the Lucky Strikes. Even...
...Hill wasn't satisfied. In the studio, she and Jean were "innocently competitive," gently sparring to see who could spin off the wittiest rhymes. Hill was eager to see what she could do solo. She booked a recording studio in New York City and gathered up every instrument she could think of--a harpsichord, a timpani, a trombone, a Hammond B-3 organ. She wanted to create hip-hop with live instruments...
...that, I hope, will thrive for a long, long time. There's very little on TV that impresses me, but I'll put the pedal to the metal to get home in time to see Frasier. The characters are eccentric and complex, the actors superb, the writers the wittiest bunch ever called into service in TV land, and each episode is more brilliantly structured than the last. I think there should be no question about this show's ability to crush every upstart and retread for five seasons running. Survival of the fittest, I'd say. HOLLIS ASHBY Pacifica, Calif...
...voices and feeble minds and show no aversion to scatological humor. The title, South Park, refers to the setting, a small hamlet where teachers are dolts, the mayor's first move in times of crisis is to call her personal stylist, and the school cook, in the show's wittiest turn, often breaks into imitation Barry White songs for no apparent reason...
Next on the list is "My Fair Lady," one of the most beloved musicals to emerge from the '60s--certainly one of the loveliest and wittiest. And finally, Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor," which may come close to "Lawrence of Arabia" for benefits from big-screen presentation: few can match Bertolucci for sheer richness of visual style. One can also look for Peter O'Toole again, this time in a supporting role, and alas, much older, but still retaining terrific poise and those deep blue eyes...