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1. She is also visited by her husband's sister, Yvonne ( Nicole Gomez ), who is both a spitfire party girl and a genuinely concerned friend, and by her husband's brother, Luis ( Ramon de Ocampo ), a dopey kid who has been dispatched to find the missing spouse and failed his mission in spectacularly dunderheaded fashion.
2. Beavis and Butt-head themselves have attention spans of about 10 seconds so, sure, at 80 minutes the movie is too long and padded _ and then it sucked _ but there are more than enough low-brow, dunderheaded, " huh-huh, heh-heh "-spiked hijinks here to make the trip to the theater worth it.
3. Linda Winer, of Newsday, said that Wildhorn writes " dunderheaded musicals for people who find Andrew Lloyd Webber too difficult . " Ben Brantley, of The New York Times, allowed, " They're fine if you're in the mood to be emotionally knee-jerked . " And Charles Isherwood of Variety said of Wildhorn : " His natural home is in Las Vegas.
4. Playing themselves as radio and music star parents of two precocious young daughters ( played by actresses Jeanine Roos and Ann Whitfield, instead of the Harrises'own young daughters ), Harris refined his character from the booze-and-broads, hipster jive talker he had been on the Benny show ( " Hiya, Jackson ! " was his usual hail to Benny ) into a slightly vain ( particularly about his wavy hair and the dimpled smile that always hinted mischief ) and dunderheaded husband who usually needed rescuing by Faye as his occasionally tart but always loving wife.
5. But the outcome of the game had profoundly less to do with the refereeing than it did with Miami's shooting free throws as if heaving a medicine ball _ hitting 11 of 21 overall from the foul line ( to the Knicks'28 for 31 ); or the fact that two of its best shooters, Mashburn and Hardaway, connected on just 9 of 35 shots from the field; or that Mourning did an unfortunate impersonation of Willie Sutton, missing a dunderheaded steal attempt to allow his man, Patrick Ewing, a clear getaway to the basket for the winning jam.
6. TVSURFER-COLUMN _ ATLANTA _ Tonight's season-ending " NYPD Blue " throws fans a curve; " Frasier " to take over for " Seinfeld " in fall and we detail the other changes and new shows; plus early word on ABC and WB, which will annouce their fall schedules on Tuesday; plus " Godzilla " has nothing to fear _ tonight's " Gargantua " on Fox is one, huge, colossal dunderheaded monster mash . ( Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) ETA 8 p . m . ET.
7. Thursday night we meet her mother, whom Bess Armstrong plays rather bravely as an unpleasant woman with frayed nerve endings and a shrill, exasperated manner she can't seem to rein in; Angela's overly mild-mannered and rather incompetent father ( Tom Irwin ), who seems genuinely to be afraid of his wife and two daughters, maybe because he's contemplating an affair; the handsome, dunderheaded galoot Angela has a heartbreaking crush on ( Jared Leto ); her next-door neighbor ( Devon Gummersall ), a geeky valedictorian type who has a heartbreaking crush on her, and her new best friend, Rayanne Graff ( A . J . Langer ), whose other sidekick is a half-black, half-Hispanic, apparently gay boy named Rickie ( Wilson Cruz ), who likes to hang out in the girls'bathroom.