Etc. Section B • Page 5 The University Daily Kanaan Thursday, October 12, 2001 Limp Ladies' Man fails to satisfy By Amanda Kraschube writer@kansan.com Kansas staff writer He's the Ladies' Man. But like most men, he starts out strong and fades fast at the end. Radio talk show host Leon Phelps (Tim Meadows) is looking for love, but what he needs instead is a job after he and Julie (Karyn Parsons) are fired for their "frank" cander on air. Leon's unique blend of sexual advice to the men and women of Chicago may be offensive at times, but it always provides a laugh. While Leon claims that he is not a psychologist or psychiatrist, he is a self-proclaimed sexpert, and he has a large black "book" to prove it. Most of the jokes in the beginning are sexual innuendoes, stemming from pila colada love lotion to the water bed that provides the motion to his ocean. Even Leon's own house — a love shack on the water When Leon and Julie are fired from their late-night spot, they are forced to shop around for other stations that aren't bothered by the Ladies' Man's raunchy poems. Even when Leon tries to clean up his act for a religious station, a 50-year-old nun spills his fun when she talks about doing missionary work in Bangkok. - raises eyebrows with a "70s-themed decor complete with a shag rug and disco mood lighting. But Leon thinks his job search is over when he receives a letter from "Sweet Thing," an old sexual conquest who promises him money and much more. But because Leon is the Ladies' Man, all of the women blur together and he can't remember Ladies' Man Acting ○○○○○ Plot ○○○○○ Cinematography ○○○○ (but I liked Baseketball) who or where "Sweet Thing" is. His search is further complicated when a posse of cuckolded husbands determined to take their revenge on him for seducing their wives. Meadows' character has been a permanent fixture on Saturday Night Live since 1997. SNL producer Lorne Michaels urged Meadows to create a feature film with the Ladies' Man, obviously hoping for the success that Mike Myers endured with Austin Powers. But unlike Austin Powers, the The Ladies Man cannot keep the punches rolling and opts instead to end the story in a mushy embrace instead of lewd humor. The movie brings back two familiar leading ladies in Parsons of Fresh Prince fame, and Tiffany Thiessen of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Saved by the Bell. While Thiessen only graces the screen in the last 15 minutes, Parsons' character stabilizes Leon throughout the movie, saving him from the deranged husbands led by Greco-Roman wrestling fanatic Lance, played by Will Ferrell. The Ladies Man provides sporadic sexual humor at first, but tapers off at the climactic moment when Leon finds his "Sweet Thing." Like my ex-boyfriend, The Ladies Man left me wanting more. 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