All across the United States, journalists and other wiseacres would soon have a field day with the popular mayor's personal problems and public trials.—— Herbert Mitgang, 'Once Upon a Time in New York'

A wiseacre on the Oakland to Los Angeles shuttle this week said the next technological leap would be implanting cell phones into people's heads. He was kidding -- we think. —— Chuck Raasch, "California is November prize for candidates," USA Today; August 24, 2000

The pair of them seem on the brink of collapse. Orlean's husband and friends are insensitive wiseacres. Kaufman's brother Donald (also played by Cage) is a gormless jock who not only clods around the flat they share, but has decided that he too wants to be a writer, albeit of a staggeringly cretinous serial killer movie. Charlie's nervy self-absorption leads even those women who quite like him to walk away; Donald, meanwhile, not only gets off with a set designer (the delightful Maggie Gyllenhaal), but produces a hit script that leads his brother to ask him for advice. —— Sukhdev Sandhu; 'Delightfully Baffling'; Feb 28, 2003

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