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...last season's Emmy-winning episode The Contest, in which the characters competed to be "master of your domain"). In reality, the show is more densely textured, elaborately plotted and psychologically astute than any other comedy on TV. It is, moreover, the product of two distinct but oddly congruent comic personalities: David, 46, a dour ex-stand-up comic and writer (he appeared in ABC's failed late-night show Fridays and spent one season writing for Saturday Night Live, where only one of his sketches ever aired), and Seinfeld, 39, a star who is just as active behind...
There was nothing quality-ridden about the artist's original sources -- a smudgy, one-column figure of a girl with a beach ball advertising a resort in the Poconos, a moony frame from a romance comic. But by the time such things had been run through the loop from ad to art to ad again, they had become as invested with glamour as a photo by Avedon. The sheer pervasiveness of Lichtenstein's style rivals and maybe even exceeds Warhol's, even though, unlike Warhol, he kept his own distance from the ad industry as an artist and never offered...
...Reiner's favorite comic techniques is to manipulate music and sound to confound the auditory expectations audiences have been virtually conditioned to experience in suspense movies...
Mark Fish, as the callous, sexually insatiable, unspeakably cruel Gomez sets the action rolling. He packs incalculable arrogance, sneering and self-satisfaction into every swaggering footstep. Fish balances deft comic timing with a chillingly impassive sadism...
...Wolfgang Murad puts the wit into twit in his portrayal of Mengo, the village idiot. His buffoonery provides much-needed comic relief, but he rises to the manly occasion of preventing his cousin's rape convincingly...