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...since Noel Coward . . . well, has a comic dramatist written vernacular dialogue this smart this fast. Hughes has been known to bat out 74 script pages in a night; no first draft takes more than a week. Such informed, automatic writing demands that you live inside your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part...
...furniture in Westbury, N.Y., have appeared in commercials since 1980. One of their popular spots features the Greensteins sitting in baby cribs and musing about a "talking orangutan." Customers routinely barge into Coronet demanding to see the TV stars, and trendy Manhattan nightclubs such as Danceteria, Chuckles and the Comic Strip have hired them to perform the orangutan skit onstage. Chortles Wayne: "We've become cult figures...
Theatrical Agent Tony Rivers came right to the point: "I can't send you out as Joan Molinsky. You've got to change your name." The struggling nightclub comic did not waste a second: "Okay, I'll be Joan Rivers." The single-minded doctor's daughter from Larchmont, N.Y., helped herself to her agent's name, competitors' jokes, employers' postage stamps and free hotel rooms until her big break came on the Tonight show...
...Paul Mooney). The contours of Pryor's misspent life are the same--raised in his grandma's $ brothel, early career working cheap nightclubs, a bunch of misunderstood and misunderstanding wives, championship bouts with alcohol and drugs leading to the final free-base conflagration--but the guts are missing. The comic here is a sweet-souled wimp: he uses a gun only in defense of a friend; he is introduced to cocaine by his white wife, whom he finds in bed with a Hollywood sleaze bag. Instead of the fierce artistry of Pryor's comic monologues, he offers a decorous...
...impenetrable egocentricity. Obviously Writer-Director Alda has not spent his spare time on television and movie sets on the phone with his agent. He has tuned in to the lunacies of his profession, and when Sweet Liberty is minding its own business--the movie business--it is on high comic ground...