Sunday, April 10, 2005

Newsweek--ansen or kroll?

“Jane Fonda. Lily Tomlin. Dolly Parton. If Oscars were given for the casting coup of the year, 9 to 5 would win hands down. Demographically speaking, those three names constitute a star-studded net from which no prospective moviegoer can be expected to escape…. 

“…. Tomlin is the super-efficient veteran who keeps getting passed up for promotion…. [W]hile [Higgins] is struggling to get his jerry-built comedy to the finishline, Tomlin is adroitly--and mercifully--stealing all available scenes with a deadpan delivery that puts a surreal spin on her commonsensical character. ('I'm no fool,' she says during the rat-poison episode. 'I've killed the boss. You think they're not going to fire me for a thing like that?' Tomlin also gets the best fantasy--a Disneyesque cartoon in which she appears dressed like Snow White, dispensing death with a magic wand….” 

[who?] Newsweek, December 22, 1980

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