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This overall lack of unity is all the more frustrating because at least a few of the pieces capture the unique comic sensibility that informs her performances. In the better snippets here, Bernhard shows herself the best sort of critic of American popular culture and values--one who has unabashed respect and affection for the thing she critiques...
Saddam Hussein, at least as he is caricatured in Western demonology, is the perfect comic-book villain for Jeffrey Archer's latest summer-weight thriller. ) What's more, the Iraqi strongman has cooked up a fiendish scheme to humiliate the Great Satan: steal the Declaration of Independence from its place in the U.S. National Archives, and burn it on July 4, 1993, in Baghdad's Victory Square. Horrors! Curses! Zounds...
...lens as if it were a mirror. He never finds a way either to put an interesting spin on the incidents of the journey or to link them dynamically. And he doesn't know how to turn a graceful romantic line or how to put real snap into a comic one; his dialogue is mainly street epithets mumbled or run together incomprehensibly...
...flaw, the romance was a fresh concept in that it took place between working peers. Not allowing the romance to interfere with work was a hidden undertone that presented an interesting new angle. After supplying the next "Naked Gun" movie with loads of material, the romance did add some comic relief by revealing what Secret Service agents always carry in their pockets as well as the other things that Eastwood's character "knows" about...
...Tony; his AIDS teleplay, Andre's Mother, won an Emmy; his domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism toward authority and matter-of-fact agenda of including homosexuals in stories not "about" their world. All those are evident in A Perfect Ganesh, which is anything but an attempt to cash in on his sudden commercial appeal. There are flaws. While soundly constructed, with...