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...Jeffrey Tambor, who played Larry Sanders sidekick Hank Kingsley, is there looking tan and engaged. He proudly introduces a beautiful Polish girl as his fiancée. He has shaved off his trademark moustache, perhaps because his semi-bald-head-and-moustache look has been stolen by that strange quasi-therapist who crops up daily on "Oprah...
Asked what has given him the most satisfaction about Larry Sanders, Shandling cites "the casting and the honesty of the acting." He is right to be proud. As Hank and Artie, Jeffrey Tambor and Rip Torn have been doing some of the best acting on television. When Tambor quietly boasts in one episode, "I've lost upward of 14 pounds," a whole life seems to support the line. Torn's Artie is an amazing creation, a veteran of an earlier, Chivas-fueled Hollywood generation who cajoles and bullies Larry but can look at him with a momentary expression of pure...
...girl, Chuck?" asks his "uncle" Ken, mom's live-in. "No thanks," he replies. "I'm full." Do all kids talk to their parents this way, mom asks, "I don't know. Most kids are too stoned to talk at all." And so on, Co-stars Peter Frenchettle, Jeffrey Tambor and Ann Wedgeworth, however able, can't match what starts as and should remain Cryer's one-man show...
...director, has added a mixed bag of incidental touches to the play. His staging of the scene in which the professor gives the pupil imaginary ears and noses works brilliantly. But as a whole the play is sustained by two fine performances proceeding independently of any overall conception. Tambor and Miss Channing, in fact, seem on occasion to proceed independently of each other as well...
...professor, Tambor undergoes a gradual, but very definite, transformation. At the start he is all bungling whimsy in the Ionesco tradition. By the end he has gone into and emerged from a villainous trance. Yet all the while Tambor maintains the academic quality suggested by his long, white, fake hair...