This theatregoer will definitely pay closer attention to the Alliance's calendar if Morgan's on the bill... Now, let me play the devil's advocate for a minute: Jake La Botz was creepy and funny and devilishly good as "The Shape," the smartass, Vegas-by-way-of-Deliverance apparition who slinked around every corner of the set waiting for a character to screw up.
This was a live-action Mad magazine movie-parody: smartass, juvenile, subversive and played absolutely straight by a cast of stone-faced matinee idols drawn from the very movies that Airplane! spoofed.
Yet, right when political humor could be ripe for the plucking by the right person, the 57-year-old MacDonald who once made a living by cracking jokes about the week's news as the scrawny, smartass anchor of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update spends the entirety of his hour-long special avoiding anything that could be remotely deemed as topical.
Yet, right when political humour could be ripe for the plucking by the right person, the 57-year-old MacDonald who once made a living by cracking jokes about the week's news as the scrawny, smartass anchor of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update spends the entirety of his hour-long special avoiding anything that could be remotely deemed as topical.
The Contract by David Levien (Bantam, £12.99) Thrillers by Hollywood screenwriters can be woeful, their authors under the impression that smartass dialogue will cover any cracks in the plot.
One was "Shake It for the World, Smartass".
And he was a smartass, and that didn't help.
I remember when I was in elementary school, the smartass kids were always talking about googols.
"I was a smartass film student who thought he knew everything about movies," Singleton said.
(I especially love Sue Heck, whose dorky innocence is a break from smartass teens elsewhere on TV).
