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Then luck struck. Director James Cameron cast him in what could have been a no-impact supporting role in True Lies. Thanks in part to his sly, scene-stealing comic turn as Arnold Schwarzenegger's loud, loutish best friend, the movie was boffo in 1994 ($146 million gross). Arnold instantly became one of filmdom's most wanted second bananas--a kind of low-rent Tony Randall for the age of Beavis...
...while bartending in Minneapolis, he opened the show for a visiting comic named Roseanne Barr. She needed jokes, and he wrote enough that worked, so she kept asking. Five years later, she invited him to move to Los Angeles to provide material for her new TV series and play an occasional supporting role. The professional rapport got personal, but Roseanne refused to marry Tom until he checked into rehab to break a growing, even life-threatening dependency on alcohol and cocaine...
...Talk About' lies in its reality. This movie asks questions that people face everyday. It doesn't allow the characters to take the easy way out, and its wry humor strikes an eerily familiar note. This is not a movie with slapstick comedy or old sitcom jokes--its comic moments are all natural, springing from painfully real situations. This movie is a must...
...freshest production is a real oddball: one of the few stagings ever done of Benjamin Britten's first opera, Paul Bunyan. Written to a libretto by W.H. Auden shortly after the composer and poet came to America as pacifists in the late 1930s, the work was conceived as a comic-populist valentine to their new country, one that would be suitable for school productions. Singable it is: the stream of songs and choruses exploits and gently parodies everything from American folksiness to Broadway jazziness, from Italian opera to Victorian ballads...
...British comic novelist David Lodge has an endearing way of falling in love with his characters. In Nice Work (1991) he did a complete about-face, starting at a satirist's typical distance from his creations and finishing besotted with them. In Therapy (Viking; 321 pages; $22.95) he describes a classic case of postmodern depression. Laurence ("Tubby") Passmore is 58, securely married, the chief writer on a hit TV sitcom. But he quickly finds he has a trick knee, a fed-up wife and a bad threat...