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3) L'affaire Lewinsky is the superior drama: "Nobody writes better scripts than Washington, D.C." (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Sidebar: Hollywood reporters say Universal Studios is panicking over when to release Mike Nichols' adaptation of the Clinton satire Primary Colors , currently due out in March.
I observe that 50 years ago Mad magazine observed the popularity of Chinese restaurants with an elegant piece of satire called "Two Chinese Guys Go Into an American Restaurant."
"The Boogie Nights of the fake-boob industry" (Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the show's witty satire of sleazy doctors, as well as the performances by David Schwimmer ( Friends ) and Chris Cooper ( Lone Star ). New York 's John Leonard gripes that Breast Men simply exploits cable TV's independence to show gratuitous flesh: "In an exuberance meant to be Rabelaisian, it crosses the line from peep show into pornography."
The old method was to insist that it was "satire."
The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.