Screen: Pride and Prejudice and Cliche People

succeeded in making a comedy which isnrooted in a doctrinaire outloolt. A doctrinairencomedy cannot use laughter asnits substance; it can operate on a scoffnor a sneer, but not on hilarity. But lifenis even more cruel to the creators ofnPrivate Benjamin: they wound up withna caricature of comedy---a feat in . . .