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The new play by Alfred Uhry ( Driving Miss Daisy )--a romantic comedy about self-hating Jews in Atlanta on the eve of World War II--is said to teeter between the "the serious-comedy tradition of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy" (Linda Winer, Newsday ) and sitcom schmaltz.
The comedies, such as Prizzi's Honor and Analyze This , are meant to cut through the globby schmaltz of mob drama by showing us wise guys as goofballs.