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WALTER MATTHAU, who died of a heart attack last week at 79, made moviegoers laugh at their own venality--make that humanity. A deft character actor with star quality, he was the ideal mouthpiece for the wisecracks of Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys) and Billy Wilder (The Fortune Cookie). But he didn't need good writing to be funny. Born Walter Matuchanskayasky, he had a posture designed by Rube Goldberg and a lovely snarl of a voice that cut like a foreclosure notice. That got him small, dark roles (he beat up Elvis Presley in King Creole...
...page book in which the brothers take four-page turns complaining. They whine about car manufacturers, but also about Starbucks, the Founding Fathers and bottled water. Much of it is smart, but none of it works as well as the radio show. Mostly because you can't hear them laugh...
...Reggie Jackson's favorite mo. 4. "Sorta" suffix 7. Double-helix compounds: Abbr. 11. "THAT's a laugh!" 12. Vincent Lopez's theme song 13. River past Interlaken 14. __ Skin (controversial Springsteen tune) 16. Ms. links letters 17. Subject to additional duty? 18. According to Forbes, he's still the world's richest person 20. Los __, where hard drives seem to come and go 22. Gig components 25. One of the five Iroquois nations 28. They've got "no good explanation" for soaring 47-Down prices in the Midwest 29. Party that could bring down Barak's government 32. Some...
...none of the above, you are hereby absolved of all guilt when you laugh your ass off in the first half of the film--when the Farrellys exploit their gift for tossing sweet guys into wildly frustrating situations. Carrey plays Charlie, whose wife has left him with three fat black babies (we'll explain another time); he smiles and copes. But by repressing his rage, Charlie has let a demon grow inside him; finally it bursts out in an alter libido named Hank. That makes him bad company for Irene (Renee Zellweger), whom he must escort to upstate New York...
...first real comedy in three years, Carrey is all manic ingenuity. His eyebrows tango; he sports dry mouth and a milk mustache; he executes a quintuple spit take. It's not that he'll do anything to get a laugh. It's that he has the timing and gall to earn it--as in his metamorphosis from Charlie to Hank in one shot and with no special effects. You don't need ILM when you have...