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Miller was, and is, equally capable of astonished joy ("Sleeping through Heaven"), comic enthusiasm ("The Girls Are Ready to Go," unaccountably abbreviated on the new CD's label as "TGARTG"), Elvis Costello-ish self-mockery ("Bad Year at UCLA"), and honestly painful self-reproach ("The Red Baron"). Once you stop noticing how high his voice is, you'll probably start noticing its agility: "I want to go bang on every door/And say 'Wake up, you're sleeping through heaven'" has three contrasting riffs buried in it. Your average power-pop singer would give it one at most. Far from being...
...television show derived its humor from one of the mainstays of the comedic tradition--culture clash. Surprisingly, this is the element most lacking in the film. Considering the rich comic potential in sending up the moneyed elite, the movie's shallow and obvious stabs fall flat, as when the Clampetts serve up road kill at a dinner party. (Where do the writers get this stuff...
Entertaining, ironic, instructive, passionate and comic, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a required cultural experience, whether or not you are familiar with the novel...
...Peter Sellars, who adopts the multiple personas of the playright Clare Quilty, serves as the foil and conscience to Humbert. The very fact that Humbert is wholly unaware of Quilty's strange reappearances and sinister ways adds comic touches to the film and signifies his total unconsciousness of the gravity of the situation in which he is immersed...
...playing a thinly disguised version of herself. Jeanne Smoot and Erin Scott sometimes seemed stilted as they attempted to appear matronly. Leslie Yahia was too hyperactive to be convincing as an angry and burnt out single mother. All of the women were far more real when they were delivering comic lines than when trying to confront serious issues in their characters' lives...