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And if he sometimes wandered into whimsy--that alluring comic swamp--and even farther, into mawkish sentimentality with "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy," he more often executed that most difficult comic turn, being simultaneously funny and sweet.
Edokko are suckers for sentimentality and for ninjo: the web of small favors and kindnesses that bind them together.
But risking holiday sentimentality (with the ready-made excuse that it's just the chestnut stuffing talking), I'd like to mention some things I'm thankful for, like Tim Carvell's two (!) responses involving pushing people or poultry out of airplanes; Jennifer Miller's two (!) bits of self-revelation about her dark and ferocious inner life and apartment; Larry Amaros' determination that the Olsen twins wander parched and frightened, not merely in the Serengeti but during the dry season.
Was the hope that middlebrows would be seduced by its jaunty sentimentality and highbrows take it as ironic?
Robin Williams' turn as the savant's shrink is said to revive his career, two weeks after it was pronounced stalled in the reviews of Flubber . Dissenters call Good Will Hunting "conventional" and fraught with "traditional sticky sentimentality" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Miramax plugs the film.)