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Released in 1976, Leary continued to remain in the public eye as a stand-up comic, author and Hollywood party-goer...
...title of comic MARTIN LAWRENCE's 1994 movie, You So Crazy, came back to haunt him when he was noticed screaming and acting up in the middle of traffic at a busy Los Angeles intersection. "He was yelling, 'Fight,' you know, 'don't give up, fight the power,' or something like that," a witness told TV station kcal. Police restrained the star of Bad Boys, who was carrying a handgun in his pocket, and delivered him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where his doctor diagnosed his condition as exhaustion and dehydration. His publicist said drugs weren't involved and that...
...McInerney could have spent the rest of his career rewriting Bright Lights, Big City, a well-observed comic novel that caught a generational updraft and became either The Catcher in the Rye of the '80s or the Trout Fishing in America of the '80s, depending on your estimation (I would come down somewhere in between). His subsequent books didn't stray far from the urban high life, but with his fifth novel McInerney aims to limber up and take on something more ambitious...
...action seems to drag. While some of the dialogue fits easily into a musical style, at times it comes across as forced or awkwardly phrased. The highlight of the act is "Christmas," a number sung by Conrad, his parents, and his grandparents. Dr. Berger also adds some comic relief: in response to Conrad's question about his nightmare, Berger answers that he doesn't believe in dreams. "Between keeping up with the Freuds and keeping up with the Jones, I end up alone...
...LENO Car-happy comic discovers that rising gasoline prices have put a tiger in his monologues...