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Daytime TV the target of ‘Soapdish’
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Soapcftih Playing at Movias 12 at lha
Gaiaway Mail Ralad R
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When II mines In
making jokes .ilxiut
television prop.mis.
one tV|X' th.lt seems
to get .ill the ridicule
Is Mldll OIXT.ls
'Ihe -tm• is ripe for parody
After all. it's rife with overblown
jilols, unbelievable ( harai teri/a
lions arid hilariously fortxtl diu
logue that never seems to lie spo
ken in rreil life
Well, sii,\ps are a lopir worthy
of parody Hut .Soa/N/rsh relies
h*> imidi on the (ai t lfi.it what it
is doing is guamnlrvd to get
laughs instead ol working to get
some that won't Ik1 obvious It's
lunny. but not as much as it
i oulil have Ixwnt with a little
more effort
Sallv field plays Celeste, the
lute 11\ . sell obsessed star ol the
show who has a closet full ol
Daytime fanmvs She is a hit as
lar as she and tile Ians ol the
show are concerned As lot the
ri-st ol the cast, they despise her
f.s|wr sally hateful ol the aging
prima donna, is the vumpish
Montana Moondieail. played In
Cathy Moriartv. who wants to
usurp Celeste as the i|ueen ol the
SOQpS
Montana's scheme revolves
around seducing the libido
driven producer of the appro
priatoly title soap, Thti Sun
Also Sets, to turn Celeste into a
hateful ( it.irat ter on the show
Keeping Celeste's material
faithful to what brought her fame
ill the first place is her lost
friend, confidante and heed writ
er lor the show, Rose Schwartz,
played with thankful reserve by
Whoopi C.oldberg It is she who
his>ps the flighty actress from go
mg off the deep end and Ixiosts
her ego
Brought in with the expressed
intent to contuse things is Kevin
Kline as a has ben .ic tor who
used to lie on the show and .1 lor
mer lover ol (leloste He’s now re
duced to playing Willy Loman in
a dinner theater to a bunch of
geriatrics
I heir interest in the' show each
night varies directly with the
quality ol th.it night's roast beef.
Kline is absolutely hilarious with
his fed up altitude at the hand he1
has been dealt in his career
If the plot I have described
sounds overly confusing, that's
U cause It s supposed to lie The
film Is structured like a soap and
has contusion piled on confusion
and held together with a bunch
of running around and sc ream
mg
Hut the plot is secondary to the
over-abundant throwaway gags
I'.verx scene ol the soap opera ei
ther has a choesv fake ocean,
complete with little waves incos
santly t trash inf; to the imitation
turl or svelte topless men with
nothing better to do than stand
around guarding doorways or
equally inconsequential women
characters with nothing ixitter to
do than to heave their consider
able ixisoms
There are some nice gags, such
as the director of daytime pro
grainming who tells his under
lings the two words he likes to
hear peppy and cheap Or the
writing on lilt* soap scraping the
ixittom of the screenwriting liar
rrl with lines like Maggie (Ce
leste's character) pleading in a
jail i ell. "Yes' I'm guilty! (hiiltv
ill love in the first degree!"
Screenwriters Robert Harling,
who wrote Stool Magnolias.
and Andrew Bergman (The
Freshman), do a good job of
creating distinct characters-and
giving almost all of them funny
material
What works most lor this film
is how much fun all the actors
seem to lx- having and how they
manage to draw the audience in
with that positive energy. Il may
not tx‘ as smart or self-effacing as
it would have the audience lx
lieve. hut it does supply quite a
few laughs, which is all we might
want anvwav
By Lucas J Gutman
Emerald Ccrtntxitor
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