The comic foundations look solid: the similarity of TV soap-opera actors to TV soap-opera characters (greed, jealousy, treachery, etc.) and the vanity, the theatricality, the remoteness from real life of all actors whatsoever, regardless of the level on which they're employed. Though you might chuckle in anticipation, a consistent style of overstatement (and loud statement and shrill statement) prevents you from chuckling on cue. One bit -- a too-little bit -- about a nearsighted actor attempting to read a teleprompter ("A dreadful, dreadful thug" for "dreadful, dreadful thing" and so forth) manages to be funny despite the excessive efforts to ensure it will be so: it's a "live" broadcast, and the actors haven't seen the script before they go on camera. Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Elisabeth Shue, Cathy Moriarty, Robert Downey Jr., and Whoopi Goldberg; directed by Michael Hoffman. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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