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...Clinton's Oxford classmate and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Deutch likes playing hardball. William Perry, the Secretary of Defense, is not only Deutch's ex-boss at the Pentagon but also his former business partner. Deutch knows how to make stone-faced Secretary of State Warren Christopher laugh. At the Prime Rib, a tony Washington restaurant, he swaps spy stories with Senator Specter. Says Talbott: "The first words that come to mind when you interact with John: energy, enthusiasm, focus." All that helps shore up support for what Deutch truly wants: a concentration of intelligence-gathering power never...
...fine, low comedians and, for a hilarious moment, some tragedians too. Like Zaks' revival of Guys and Dolls, this Forum is a celebration of shtick. If a gag was ever funny, from Plautus' time to ours, he'll spit on it and spin it until you have to laugh unashamedly...
Best of all, there's word that cable's Sci-Fi Channel may pick up the show for next year. The graybeards who have religiously taped every episode--and the recruits who will find laugh at first sight watching the new movie--can only hope that their favorite space travelers will be stranded up there for eons to come...
...lasts only 73 minutes--but watching it in a crowd offers a different high. As the gags pile up remorselessly, and the viewer strains to keep up with the story line and the cutting subtext, a furious but benign apnea takes hold. You can't enjoy a good long laugh because you'll miss too much; you must let it explode in short blasts. It's the happiest form of internal injury...
...most pointed moment of Instant Grief Analysis came when NBC did a frame-by-frame deconstruction of the President walking along after Brown's funeral, laughing at something he was being told--then going all somber when the camera was trained on him. This was offered as proof that the President is a phony, when an equally valid explanation is that people laugh at funerals all the time. Only in the capital would someone stop doing so out of fear it would be used against...