Kasdan wins coveted Best-American-film-Stephen-Holden-was-
able-to-see Award: The NYT's Stephen Holden on Jake's new movie's premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival:
The best of the American films I was able to see, Jake Kasdan's sharp, funny satire The TV Set, features an award-worthy performance by Sigourney Weaver as a gung-ho network executive who sabotages a writer's pilot during its filming.
If the role recalls Faye Dunaway's dragon lady in Network, Ms. Weaver's character camouflages her iron will behind a surface of sugary agreeability in an exceptionally witty portrayal. How perfect is it that at a network convention her character shamelessly gloats over the runaway success of the network's new hit series, a piece of trash called Slut Wars?
