LIKE AQUAMAN, IT'S ALL WET; LIKE QUEENS BOULEVARD, YOU CAN FOLLOW IT FOR A LONG TIME WITHOUT SEEING ANYTHING; LIKE MEDELLIN'S ESCOBAR, IT'S BLOATED AND SELF-ABSORBED: The moment when Highlander II: The Quickening went from a spectacularly bad movie to one of the worst movies of all time was when Connor MacLeod (of the Clan McLeod) and Sean Connery (playing a Spanish immortal with a wicked Scottish accent) were trapped under some kind of whirling blade that was going to kill them, and then Connery just made the blade stop, and when MacLeod asked him how he did it, he said "it's magic" ("mah-jik!") and they went on their way. A few moments later, Virginia Madsen got trapped in a small alcove by sniper fire. The next we saw of her, she was running free. How did it happen? Mah-jik!, I guess.
Two significant things happened in last night's Entourage (what keeps me watching? Mah-jik!, I guess). First, an unemployed cheeseball hanger-on got an attractive, well-known actress to, ahem, lend a helping hand on an airplane. Second, a superagent nominated for a $10MM studio head job convinced the CEO to hand the job to a 35-year old who appears to be working for a production company and whose last studio job was as a junior or mid-level development exec. In deft creative hands, we would have seen how both of these improbabilities were accomplished, and that would have been the bulk of the episode. Sadly, because this is Entourage, both of these acts of seduction took place off-camera (instead, we got another insidery cameo). How? Mah-jik!
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