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This much we've learned: Jim Lehrer is no Regis. W.'s laugh sounds even rougher when it comes over 40-odd loudspeakers in a room of 1,600 reporters. And how can a man married to a teacher possibly use the term "paperwork filler-outer...
...funny thing about Steve Martin's first work of extended fiction, Shopgirl, is that it's not funny. At least not the laugh-out-loud-and-frighten-the-horses funny of Martin's early stand-up comedy, or of his performance as the man-woman in All of Me, or the humor pieces in his collection Pure Drivel. Shopgirl, which really is about a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Neiman Marcus department store in Beverly Hills, offers quieter pleasures: a delicate portrait of people inflicting subtle pain on others and themselves, and an appeal...
...does something insensitive, lands in hot water and so on until we reach a crescendo of comic discomfort. The humor is minutely observed, but the improv reminds you how much nonactor Jerry Seinfeld benefited from comic backup and tight scripts. At his best, though, David can still make you laugh till you squirm...
This movie is silly to the max-but it was meant to be. So it's hard to fault The Ladies Man for hitting our expectations right on the nose. All you can do is sit back and laugh-either with them or at them...
...record needed any more validation as a piece of Americana, Van Morrison appears on "The Last Laugh," with saxophones on hand to cue him in. It doesn't help the Pollyanna feel of a record that loses itself somewhere between Johnny Appleseed and Randy Newman...