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...Comic and Oscar host Billy Crystal debuts as a filmmaker...
...Pryor, nor as frantic as Robin Williams, nor as - political as Jay Leno, not alienated or crude or macho. His humor bursts the bubble of ego without destroying anyone's dignity. He doesn't seem to have an enemy in the business, which partly accounts for the success of Comic Relief, his annual TV show with Whoopi Goldberg and Williams, which raises millions of dollars for the homeless...
...Saturday Night" Billy Crystal portrays Buddy Young, a comic who has spent fifty years fighting his way to the middle. Young's story is presented in the form of flashbacks which reveal how Buddy is his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close to him. The movie entertains by presenting Young's more obnoxious moments and leaves you believing in the goodness and brilliance of a fat, balding has-been...
...Saturday Night" Billy Crystal portrays Buddy Young, a comic who has spent fifty years fighting his way to the middle. Young's story is presented in the form of flashbacks which reveal how Buddy is his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close to him. The movie entertains by presenting Young's more obnoxious moments and leaves you believing in the goodness and brilliance of a fat, balding has-been...
This presence of the antique, which was an obsessive and recurrent aspect of all artists' experience in Rome or Naples, surfaces elsewhere in Ribera's work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...