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...very good things about Fly Away Home are the restrained naturalism of its playing; its gentle, unforced direction by Carroll Ballard; and above all its imagery, shot by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, of Amy, Tom and the birds in flight. At once comic and soaring, artful and artless, these scenes lift us from earthbound disbelief and charm our acquiescence in the sweetest of adventures...
...Jeff Foxworthy Show, which premiered last season on ABC and is moving to NBC, was rebuilt during six weeks this summer. No longer a fish out of water in the Midwest, the Southern comic will find himself living near Atlanta. This time he gets a new wife and potential for more conflict in the form of a female boss...
Wayans, reprising the comic anger of his Major Payne, mostly gets to glower and spit out lines like "Shut the hell up!" Sandler has the whining sharpie role, playing up coquettishly to Wayans' righteousness. He even--could this be more femme?--gets his own romantic shower scene, in which he warbles I Will Always Love You. But there's not a lot of giving in his give-and-take scenes with Wayans. S.N.L. viewers know that when Sandler is singing in the shower, he's singing to himself...
...live. Rice, who went on to get a master's degree in public administration, was re-elected mayor in 1993 with 67% of the vote, and now he's running in the Democratic primary for Governor. He has won praise for crime prevention and restraints on spending growth. Comic Relief VII named him America's funniest mayor...
...torture (Rough for Theatre II, What Where), the memory of a mother's last days (Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls). Their dialogue often sounds like bumper stickers for the clinically depressed: "Can there be misery loftier than mine?" asks Hamm in Endgame. But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic. As Beckett knew, all hope is comic. So is the search for meaning. So too, perhaps, is writing about hopelessness and meaninglessness...