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...what I wanted at a Little League game -- my ex-husband's ex- lover. Isn't that what every mother dreams of?" In that moment, actually among the funniest and happiest of an off-Broadway musical set in the early months of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettoland expresses its edgy wit, cockeyed charm and matter-of-fact acceptance of a world Norman Rockwell never painted...
...OKAY? (Chrysalis). In the two years since his group's groundbreaking album What Up, Dog?, Don Was has become a hotshot producer. But he still knows how to find a groove. The latest offering borrows its funk from James Brown, its harmonies from the Temptations, a heaping of wit from Zappa, and makes it all cook...
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE. Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine embody the glamorous wit of Carrie Fisher's novel about an actress in rehab and her movie-star mom. Under the sorcerer's wand of director Mike Nichols, this terrific comedy is a Terms of Endearment in which nobody dies but everyone hurts...
...speed and info overload of a movie trailer. Two great labyrinthine tracking shots -- at a neighborhood bar and the Copacabana -- introduce, with lightning grace, about a million wise guys. Who are they? What are they doing, and who are they doing in? Just to catch all the ambient wit and bustle, you have to see GoodFellas twice -- not a bad idea...
...premise of Metropolitan might immediately strike some as odious, and the near-masturbatory depiction of the lifestyle of the leisure set might also strike some as pretentious. The film at times seems to be self-satirizing, but the wit in Metropolitan is rarely meanspirited enough to be satirical. But Stillman, who directed, produced and wrote the work, saves the film from a sure, sudden death by carefully drawing characters who communicate through precariously graceful dialogue...