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Having risked appearing foolish in the cause of his art; having tackled his parts with demented, hyperbolic integrity, letting the madness of his roles infuse him and carry him into the ether; having snagged an Oscar for his besotted, bebop melancholia in Leaving Las Vegas ; Nicolas Cage has now set out to prove that he can be as much of an overmuscled jackass as Sylvester Stallone.
"Friends (NBC; 8 p.m.): A puffy, besotted Chandler dissolves his Cabinet--again!
Which brings us to the question raised by The Best American Recipes 1999 : Why, in a world besotted with mindless applications of the "best-of" conceit, did it take so long to come up with this one?