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Travolta's Jack Stanton may be comic hyperbole, but the real Clinton at his best is just as overstated--a sprawling, irreducible character who belongs not in the cramped precincts of American politics but in the wide-open fields of American fiction, which is where Klein had the good sense to put him. But though Klein left enough wiggle room for a reader to create a different character in the mind's eye, the movie allows nothing of the kind. From the very first scene, that's him up there, and it's a shock--the first of many, because...
Strange? Certainly, but not in the same alienating manner that disturbed many viewers of Fargo. The lighthearted Big Lebowski dotes upon its ragtag hero and has a generous heart behind the veneer of its lowlife comic weirdness...
Contrasting Bridges' cavalier attitude is John Goodman as his bowling buddy Walter, who gets worked up about everything. The Coen brothers get plenty of good comic material out of this pair and thankfully don't overplay the "odd couple" element. Walter is a uniquely funny character too: though he obviously has a good heart, he can't stop his over-the-top rants. "Shomer Shabbas!" he screams, declaring his unwillingness to play an important league bowling game on the Jewish day of rest. Towards the end of the film, Goodman delivers a hilariously irrelevant, insensitive funeral elegy that somehow also...
DIED. HENNY YOUNGMAN, 91, motormouth comic who was once clocked at 250 one-liners in 45 minutes; in New York City. One favorite standby: "Take my wife--please!" (See Eulogy below...
Even if I'd known how to write serious fiction, a comic novel would have been the natural form for me to use in recalling that era. Looking back, it seemed so entertaining--all those people in that two-floor hothouse. In the haze of my memory, TIME Edit sometimes floats by as an extended country weekend, enlivened by the fact that some of the guests don't get along absolutely perfectly. It's brought to mind when I hear literary-conference phrases like "the solitary life of a writer" or "the lonely craft of writing." At TIME Edit, loneliness...