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Titles don't mean too much in an age when actors--typecast to the extreme--define movies more than anything else. Still, something a little more descriptive could certainly help; take "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective." At least there's no mistaking that title for the next Star Wars film...
...imagine that a $4 million romantic comedy, made in England, with no big stars, would turn out to be, dollar-in, dollar-out, the most profitable picture of the year? For that matter, did you think, a year ago, even if you happened to kind of shamefacedly like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, that Jim Carrey would turn out to be the hottest star of the year...
...apparently this was not enough to satisfy the magazine. They wanted an ace in the hole, it seemed, just in case the photos from the dance weren't exactly what they wanted...
DIED. FRED PERRY, 85, tennis ace and the last British men's singles champ at Wimbledon; in Melbourne, Australia. The son of a trade unionist, Perry was viewed as something of an upstart in the alitist tennis world before he collected three consecutive Wimbledon crowns (1934, '36) and three U.S. Open titles (1933, '34, '36). The first court star to win all four Grand Slam events (though never in one year), Perry retired in the late 1940s. He co-founded a profitable sportswear company that sold the kind of natty tennis garb he favored...
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Democrats' parliamentary ace and self-appointed guardian of the Senate's deliberative role, launched an all-out effort to slow down what he called the Republican "steamroller." Byrd's filibuster-like maneuvers reduced to a snail's pace the Senate's debate of a bill that would restrict the ability of Congress to impose unfunded regulatory mandates on the states. His exploitation of an arcane rule regarding committee meeting times also forced the Judiciary Committee to halt-if for only one day-its consideration of a balanced-budget amendment. Majority leader Bob Dole...