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...charge of class day ceremonies and at that time I was painting in a studio," he remembers. "I did a lot of charcoal caricatures of the faculty. Well, we put those on the walls and had a fake commencement with a Chinese student giving the salutatory address in Chinese instead of Latin...
Perhaps Goldman should have been encouraged to write more gags, create more weird confusions and confrontations between real and fake women. (How about a husband who misses the old-fashioned fights-and the making up? Why not a little less discretion about the sexuality of a grown-up Barbie?) Or perhaps the opposite tack should have been tried. The piece could have been an exercise in pure terror, avoiding overt social comment. The broad early hints about what is going on here would then build realistic suspense...
...Satan carries much of the show along by his shoer bravaoo, Douglas Hughes plays the closest the show has to a straight man, with consistent, aplomt and a fine voice. "The Nords" (Nancy Abrams Amy Berman and Patty Low) are very funny when deadpanning the lines of a fake Greek chorus...
...stopgap measure: he wants to join up with a clan of swingers and swappers. Betty, usually a glutton for punishment, draws the line. The last scene shows her taking one of the two family cars and heading for an uncertain dawn. That she picks the station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the side to drive off in does not bode well for the future...
...ones that are more than whodunits, move swiftly along from mystery to discovery, and further on to the last mystery; that even when you add up all the facts you don't know what happened in human terms. At the center of the best mysteries there is always a fake Maltese Falcon, but the true detective gamely takes the next train to Constantinople anyway, to get on the trail of the "real...