Word: arachnophobia
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...Arachnophobia has been billed by its distributor, Buena Vista Pictures, as "the first thrill-omedy," a novel combination, one supposes, of the horrific and the humorous. While the film does combine these elements, its success lies not so much with an original synthesis as with prudent use of time-proven moviemaking techniques...
...Since September alone, Goodman has helped Al Pacino catch a serial murderer in Sea of Love, watched Richard Dreyfuss crash to earth in Always, and dried Bette Midler's tears in the just released weeper Stella. He is currently shooting a sci-fi film for Steven Spielberg, Arachnophobia, in which he plays an exterminator battling killer spiders. All that in addition to his regular weekday job: playing Roseanne Barr's TV husband in the top-rated ABC sitcom Roseanne. "More has happened to me in the last year," says Goodman, "than anybody except maybe Nicolae Ceausescu...