California...
You wouldn't believe the telephone calls.
" Congratulations," they say. " We're glad
you took your time. lt was woerh it."
They said " Every dollar that we put
in that film is up there on the screen."
l'm telling you, they're talking about
a $3.5 million adveerising budget.
3.5 million dollars! l'm sorry. Excuse me.
Do you believe that? 3.5 million dollars. This
picture is gonna go right through the roof.
Right through... the roof.
Look at those reviews. See it?
We did it. Joe, we did it.
Where are the bad ones?
There are no bad ones.
Josh...
Well, there were a couple that
quibbled a little. l left them at the office.
Josh, l want you to do me a favor -
don't show them to me.
Never. How were the television reviews?
l think we got Leslie Perry.
At the screening, she told me she loved it.
Following Gideon's triumphant directorial
achievement with "50 Beautiful Girls, 50,"
when he won every possible award,
it would be nice to report that
Mr Gideon's latest effort, " The Standup,"
starring Davis Newman, was a better film.
Oh, boy, here it comes.
Joey, turn it off, please.
..falls into his characteristic weakness
of trying too hard to please, to entertain.
- Josh, no. l wanna hear it.
- The razzle-dazzle sometimes obliterates...
- What does she know?
- She never gives a good review.
That woman is totally unqualified
to criticize anything.
- She doesn't know a damn thing about film.
- Or anything.
She's not even reviewing a film.
She's telling you how clever she is.
..where the has-been comic,
played impeccably by Davis Newman,
demonstrates his former
brilliance in a monologue
where clearly director Gideon
gave Mr Newman free rein.
Rising above rather commonplace material,
the actor creates a classic comic...
l guarantee this picture
will do 30 million domestic, at least.
- One of you better get somebody.
- What?
l think l'm in trouble.
..chopping off the ends of scenes
before the drama is played out,
left this reviewer with bewilderment
and a four-aspirin headache.
Using my four-balloon rating system,
l give " The Standup" haIf a balloon.
- How are you feeling?
- The truth? l'm scared.
Roll 'em.
Action. Oh, my God...
Ladies and gentlemen, the doctors.
l'm Dr Hyman, the internist.
l'm Dr Garry, the surgeon.
- l'm Dr Ballinger, the cardiologist.
- Five, six, seven, eight...
The heaer is the viscus that maintains
the circulation of the blood.
That means he had total blockage in...
two aereries.
This is the man who would be
my first choice as a modern-day saint.
When l was in those marches, like Selma,
this brother was shufflin'
right alongside me,
long before those cats who thought
civil rights was a hip scene
and jumped on the blackwagon.
The blackwagon! Oh, ladies
and gentlemen, let me lay on ya...
- A great enteerainer.
- a great entertainer,
- A great humanitarian.

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