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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, July 20, 1990
Smile — you’re
on video camera
By JAY SHARBUTT
it’s a Nielsen knockout, it’s
“Hey, kids,” cries one mogu
camera!”
fresh.
working on a “candid video” TV series.
But CBS is getting the jump on everyone Friday night. It i:
ing “Wish You Were Here,” a summer sitcom that also stars a
camera, plus some supporting actors.
Its main supporting actor is Lew Schneider. He plays Donnie
Cogswell, a high-spirited, Tom Hanks-like yuppie who tapes hin
doing such things as:
— Buying a home video camera.
— Quitting his well-paying Wall Street stockbroker’s job,
— Learning his apartment got flooded because he left the shower
on.
— Losing his yuppie girlfriend, Janet (Leah Lail), who wants to
break up even though he has told her, on bended knee, “let’s be
roomies” until his apartment is fixed.
He also tapes himself fleeing the New York rat race to become an
amateur videotaper of the world. He starts by using the last of his
money to fly to Paris to tape the sights and sounds of that fair city,
Flying to Paris isn’t a bad idea.
But it is a bad idea for him to send the tape of all this back to his
former girlfriend in New York, complete with a nonstop, high-speed
babble of narration in which he often says he wishes she were with
him.
It also is a bad idea that she watches the tape. This is not just
because it has the herky-jerky, video verite style popularized in the
early 1970s by college students who realized they couldn’t write and
went into TV.
It also is because she has — stand back, now — a second yuppie
boyfriend (his name is Dave, but he really looks like a Jeff. This
may be because studies show most male yuppies are named Jeff).
When Swain No. 2 drops by her apartment, says “Hi, Muffin-
face,” then notices Donny vowing eternal love on the videotape, he
gets cranky, even though she says Donny is a case of past tense.
He reluctantly agrees to watch the tape with her.
“Thank you, Mr. Bunny-nose,” she playfully says.
But when the taped Donny again pines for her and says, “I can
even hear you calling me your little Bunny-face,” Swain No. 2 ob-
jects. Take a shower, she says. Okay, he says, but wants her to join
him.
“Five minutes,” he says. “Be there. Dress optional.”
This is sophistication for the ’90s.
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Movie: "Mr. North"
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Not Necessarily the News 1 Movie: "The Naked Gun"
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