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CENTER STAGE.(Brief Article)
Byline: John Powers
Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story has the improvised exuberance you wish you could find on reality TV. Jeremy Northam plays a director shooting an adaptation of Laurence Sterne's hopelessly unfilmable novel Tristram Shandy. His star is Steve Coogan, perhaps the funniest comic actor in Britain, who plays three roles: Tristram, Tristram's father, and "Steve Coogan," a
fake version of himself who's a narcissistic womanizer with a new baby and a long-suffering wife (delightful Kelly Macdonald, who's not actually married to Coogan). Like Sterne, Winterbottom merrily serves up a self-conscious hodgepodge of characters, digressions, and hijinks, especially Coogan's uproarious exchanges with fellow cutup Rob Bryden.
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