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...Franken's comic genius is that even though he's made it to prime time, he will never seem ready for it. In NBC's new comedy Lateline (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), a spoof of Nightline, the Saturday Night Live veteran (Remember "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me"?) plays the indefatigable correspondent Al Freundlich as a mixture of Jeff Greenfield's best-boy-in-class earnestness and Sam Donaldson's bouncy intensity. In this week's premiere, under the mistaken impression that he's replacing narcissistic anchor Pearce McKenzie (appealingly pompous...
...group and a prim foil to the buffoon Porthos. A summary of his character is provided in his answer to a vexed Athos, who exclaims, "Are you so much holier than the rest of us?" He replies calmly, "Yes, I am." While Depardieu and Irons provide the comic relief, John Malkovich plays the father unhinged by grief who finds a surrogate son in Phillipe, and not always convincingly. His voice seems to express only one consistent emotion: suppressed rage. Whatever he says, he says so deliberately that it seems that he is attempting to keep himself from having...
Coupland has mastered the art of the precisely timed witticism, the understatement and the random comic comparison. His language dances around its subjects, as when Richard discovers that the end of the world has come and "an adrenaline fang bites the rear of his neck." Coupland extends his metaphor of human infringement on nature with the words he uses to describe the post-apocalyptic world: "The darkening sky is becoming a warm, dead Xerox and the winds blow forcefully as though aimed from a hair blower," and "Below them, the fire on the sloping neighborhoods burns like a million...
...person at all interested in these theories isDudden, who can't comprehend why his colleaguesdon't appreciate these business skills that haveclearly allowed psychology to thrive in the UnitedStates. The scene is colored with a wonderful castof both idealistic and embittered secondarycharacters, and it provides a much-appreciatedmoment of comic relief as the story prepares toexpose the secrets that lie within its conclusion...
...They were who they were." Still, insiders had fun guessing who in the Clinton caravan matched the characters Klein created. Henry's is the most elusive: a sort of mythical grandson of Martin Luther King Jr. crossed with former Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos. Nearly everyone else is an acute comic exaggeration of a familiar friend or foe of Bill...