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In Barton Fink , for example, Fink's adventures in '30s Hollywood lead him through a splendid gallery of vintage Los Angeles creatures--a madcap studio head, a gin-soaked Faulkneresque novelist, a seemingly ordinary insurance salesman (Goodman again) who makes strange noises in the hotel room next door.
Critics praise Goodman's finely honed descriptive abilities and "instinctive grasp of familial dynamics, the ways in which dreams and emotional habits are handed down ...
Among possible slogans that were considered: 'We're not Bergdorf Goodman, but hell, we're not the Dollar Store, either'; 'We sold washboards to your great-grandmother: That's gotta count for something'; and 'Come for the batteries, stay for the home furnishings.'"
(In the movie, an aging stoner [Jeff Bridges] and his psychotic bowling partner [John Goodman] get caught up in a botched kidnapping scheme.)
It is misleading to call this a book of quotations: most extracts are comedians' one-liners, and the better comedians--Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Groucho Marx, and a few others--produce the better one-liners.