As Richard’s more battle-hardened colleague George (another perfectly pitched supporting turn by Steve Buscemi) puts it: ”She’s f-in’ you - you just don’t know it.” (In a nice shout-out to The King of Comedy, Richard toils at the firm of Pupkin & Langford in an even nicer shout-out to Rock’s beloved hometown, the movie is shot all around NYC. But the two are certainly doing something. It’s not long before he and Nikki are meeting on sunny city afternoons and doing - not what you think, since Rohmer’s interest lies not in the Doing It, but in the moral vertigo of teetering on the precipice of Doing It. (In truth, Rock looks kind of terrified.) You know Nikki’s up to no good because she smokes, constantly, in forbidden places like offices and restaurants. Maybe she’s auditioning for a road production of Showgirls? Nikki upsets all that beige in her skimpy, devil-red baby-doll dress, and Richard’s eyes go yowza-wowza. One time I admitted it with disastrous consequences so I retracted it and said, 'Thats not what I. I do my best to lie to her so she thinks I love her. ![]() She often accuses me of resenting her for 'forcing' me to marry her. Then one day the porno-provocatively named Nikki Tru (Kerry Washington from Ray, working every come-hither eyelash), former girlfriend of an old buddy, sashays into Richard’s ultra-beige (indeed, ultra-white) corporate world, ostensibly seeking an employment letter of recommendation. My wife knows that I dont love her even though I do my best to convince her otherwise.
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