Word: idiotic
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...Jimmy hit the ball incredibly well but he putted like an idiot," noted his partner, adding, "I really had to lean on him the first...
...last days of a campaign for the Senate, Lee Kalcheim's comedy has the stock political characters: a smooth-talking campaign manager with infinitely expandable ethics; a cynical speechwriter; a pretty, blonde volunteer; a hardboiled, right-wing Congressman; and the idiot senatorial candidate. Add to that mix the candidate's wife, who wants her husband to lose and does everything she can to make sure he does, like publicly demanding a divorce...
...wife aside, Winning is sometimes very funny.;Kalcheim, a TV writer who once wrote speeches for John Lindsay, knows the inside of a campaign headquarters, and he is probably familiar with idiot candidates as well. Bryan E. Clark is superbly smarmy as the campaign manager, Forbesy Russell is appropriately nubile as the blonde, and Richard Kuss gives one of the funniest performances of the year as a Congressman who enjoys kinky sex and kinkier politics. For long stretches they make you forget that Winning really isn't. - Gerald Clarke
Cosmo convinces Victor (Lee Canalito), the brother long on muscle and short on brains, to make them some money by fighting at a wrestling joint, Paradise Alley. He is the familiar good-natured idiot, in the vein of Lenny in Steinbeck's Of Mice...
...performance. Horwitz as the revolutionary Carlos almost overcomes his hopelessly shallow part, although he occasionally stumbles over a Spanish accent that sounds too patently bogus for the audience to swallow. And Don Pullam comes up with a truly excellent performance in his one scene as an irredeemably culture-bound idiot-missionary bringing civilization to the heathen. The tribe of otherwise Stone-Age Indians singing "Yes, Jesus Loves Me"--in harmony--must be seen to be believed...