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...wondrous monologists, Lily Tomlin and Eric Bogosian, offer movie- goers a peek into beautiful and diseased minds. The films, based on stage plays, are a bit more careful, more artful, than Pryor's but just as worthy. And just as funny...
...Onstage, Tomlin's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written by Jane Wagner, was a solo dazzle and a terrific human comedy. Through its dozen or so characters, it provided a panoramic 20-year history of American womanhood. The heart of the piece is Lyn, earnest careerist-wife-mom, exhausted by achieving feminism's goals: "We can have it all. We already have it all. We just got it all at once." And the narrator is Trudy, bag-lady philosopher: "My mind didn't snap; it was tryin' to stretch itself into a new shape...
...SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE. Lily Tomlin's solo sketches, a 1985 Broadway hit, are still poignant and, if anything, funnier. In Detroit through Dec. 24, and on tour through March...
...failure of Top Secret deflected the team from their path as ZAZ went on to direct Ruthless People, a film they did not write, and Abrahams went on to direct Big Business, starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler...
...Tomlin is an adept dear, and has a fine time hexing Moramax's corporate wimps with her voodoo snake whammy. Still, you may vainly search for signs of the quicksilver wit and emotional risk she radiates onstage. Someday Hollywood will harness her genius, in some movie with a different co-star. After all, who looks at anyone else when Bette Midler is around? It is a privilege merely to watch her walk her walks: the not-quite-ladylike mince, the executive sweep, the strumpet's strut. She lopes easily from City Sadie, the bitch goddess who spits out orders...