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Friday, February 10, 2006 12:00 AM

When good comedians go bad

Remember when Steve Martin, Albert Brooks and Woody Allen were funny? What on earth happened to our favorite funnymen?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Saturday, February 11, 2006 05:22 AM

    Two words...

    When I heard they were remaking the Pink Panther, I had two words for the producers.

    Alan Arkin.

    A wonderful actor, a great actor, even. But in 1968 he tried to fill Peter Sellers' shoes in INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU (directed by Bud Yorkin), and the results were predictable. Despite a cast of English stalwarts to die for (including Frank Finlay, Beryl Reid, and Patrick Cargill), it was woefully unfunny.

    Soon, I fear, we'll have another two words to warn people from attempting this character again.

    Steve Martin.

    (Although Geoffrey Rush did an excellent impersonation of Clouseau in the HBO Sellers biopic.)

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