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Friday, October 7,1988
Reviewer: ‘Punchline
suffers disjointed stor\
Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures Induslriesl
Lilah Krystick (Sally Field) and Steven Ciold (Tom Hanks) are aspiring comics in the film “Punchline.”
By Shane Hall
Staff Writer
“Punchline” is a comedy/drama that
does not fully succeed as either. The
film, about two struggling nightclub
comics, opens today at the Plaza Three
Theater in College Station. While it
boasts some great performances, it also
suffers from a disjointed story.
making people laugh.
All of this makes for what could have
been a good human comedy until writer-
/director David Seltzer tries to do too
many things with his script.
The story lacks a solid unification. For
much of the film, the stories of Steven
and Lilah seem like two different mov-
Review
The conflict of Field’s character forms
the basis for most of the film's dramatic
Tom Hanks plays Steven Gold, a
failed medical student who works nights
as a stand-up comic at the Gas Station, a
New York nightclub.
Sally Field plays Lilah Krytsick, a
New Jersey housewife and mother of
three who performs at the same club and
almost never gets a laugh. At the begin
ning of the film, she’s so desperate to
succeed that she meets with a joke dealer
(played by Paul Mazursky) to buy 25
jokes for $500.
What’s more, Lilah’s'frequent perfor
mances at the club do not thrill her brut
ish, insurance salesman husband (John
Goodman), who would rather have his
wife at home cooking and taking care of
the kids.
Steven soon takes Lilah under his
wing to teach her a few things about
content.
Her husband, John, angry at his wife’s
never being home at night or having din
ner ready when he comes home, would
just as soon see her abandon her dream
of making people laugh to be with him
and the kids. As he tells her, she might
someday remember the people who love
you even when you’re not funny. But
when Lilah gets her first laugh, she be
comes more determined to succeed and
John becomes more resistant.
Steven, a talented comedian con
stantly hanging onto a hot shot talent
scout (Kim Greist) in an effort to be dis
covered, is trying to make enough
money to pay his roommate the back rent
he owes so he can get back into his apart
ment.
For some unknown reason, a love in
terest between Steven and Lilah is sug
gested out of the blue, but it never devel
ops and is ultimately tossed
window.
Not until the film’s end dote
tcrcnl stories actually come t
r.After Lilah enters a talenti
awarding the winner a spot!
Johnny Carson show, her husband
a complete 180 degree changeua
and decides to go see his wife pi
At the end, he discovers he levs
she did.
The ending demonstrates wht h
line” is innappropriately namedl:
of a punchline, you get anovedt
mental, "and they lived happily Ml
ter" scene between Lilah and )th
for what happens to Steven, «i
to wonder.
Tom Hanks is hysterical asS
Gold, delivering plenty of quick ott
zingers during his scenes. Ashistl
ter says, “I’m Mr. Comedy.' 1
Sally Field gives a convincing
malic performance as Lilah. I’
nately, her funny scenes in the I
gest that her character could bawl
even more interesting had Sells
lowed a more comic element into
story. And again, the sappyendE
suggested love interest between^:
characters seems unnecessary.
To sum it all up, if you're looki
a punchline, you won’t finditheK
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Former official: Our nation
still racially divided societ]
AUSTIN (AP) — The former federal official who person
ally confronted then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace in one of
the most dramatic civil rights showdowns during the 1960s
said Thursday the United States remains racially separate and
unequal.
Former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzcnbach said
anti-discrimination laws of the 1960s have helped some, but
the nation continues to march toward a racially divided so
ciety.
“If we really open our eyes, we’ve learned that the prob
lems today are worse than they were 20 years ago,’’ Katzen-
bach said in a speech that kicked off a two-day seminar on ur
ban problems being held at the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Library.
He said the country has moved backward since 1968 when a
presidential panel, the Kemer Commission, reported a na
tional crisis in race relations. “We have indeed moved further
toward those two societies; black and white, separate and un
equal.”
Katzenbach said the migration of affluent and middle class
whites from the cities to the suburbs, followed by the flight of
business, has hurt minorities trying to rise from thegh®
He said the lack of job and educational opportunity s’
violence and crime in the inner cities.
“I hope that all of you are prepared to face and
fact that our urban problems, and their resolution,Kit 1
cably tied to the problems of race,” KatzenbachsaW 1
most whites refuse to tie the two problems together.'
blacks “arc too eager to exploit it.”
Deputy attorney general, Katzenbach confrontedfe
Gov. Wallace on the steps of the University of Alabanii
Katzenbach, enforcing a federal court desegregation'
asked Wallace to step aside, saying, “From the outset.j
nor, all of us have known that the final chapter of this h
will be the admission of these students.”
After repeated requests by Katzenbach and as fefc |
National Guard troops stood on the campus. Wall®
stepped aside and the students were enrolled.
On Wednesday, Katzenbach said current
must be addressed. “If this country does not faceuptoi
ban and race problem, we will in the not to distantfu® 1
our leadership in the world,” he said.
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