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Since TV's birth, the funny weatherman has been the medium's primal infotainment guy, a stand-up comic who uses lively banter and cute graphics to sell a lot of dull data about isobars. Phil Connors (Murray) is an ace at his job; he has the patter down pat. But he's been working under his own high- pressure system too long. Off camera, to his producer, Rita (Andie MacDowell), and his cameraman, Larry (Chris Elliott), Phil is a captious creep. They would be thrilled to hear that he has been lost in space...
...Administration will have to choose between exposing Israel for the first time ever to U.N. discipline and offending the Arabs by wielding a veto that the U.S. has not used for 2 1/2 years -- and pray that the results do not disrupt the Middle East peace talks. Playing the ace would be awkward at a time when Washington needs the U.N. imprimatur for its own course of discipline against Iraq...
...interest in pop music. Or that Chelsea was working her video recorder at the Inaugural. What matters is that Clinton is a prime communicator, a beacon of middle-class charisma, a lover of being loved, a believer in the importance -- perhaps the primacy -- of image, metaphor, style. And an ace manipulator of media, selling his symbols directly to the people, on TV, without the interference of pesky journalists. It all makes for a wondrous '90s blend of show biz and politics, of Hollywood and Heartland...
...Andes plane crash that forced its surviving passengers to cannibalism: early on, the movie has a great avalanche. After that, it's all downhill. The acting (Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano are the stars) starts at a pitch of whiny hysteria and rarely lets up. The dialogue, by ace playwright John Patrick Shanley, sounds as if poorly translated from the Spanish: "What have we done that God now asks us to eat the bodies of our own dead friends?" Dissing aside, that makes for a poignant ethical dilemma and a telling religious metaphor. But Alive strands its theme of haunted...
...selected 19 different children he considered killing: 15 boys, four girls. One by one, he ruled them out, often because they were with an adult. He returned the next evening, bringing shoelaces to tie up his victims and a 6-in. fish-fillet knife that he hid inside an Ace bandage drawn tight around his ankle...