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When he achieved this in static pictorial terms, the results could be marvellous. The iconic example--The Persistence of Memory, 1929, with its everlastingly famous soft watches--is not in this show, but another and equally beautiful small picture is: Paranoiac-Astral Image, 1934. On a vast and otherwise empty plane of beach flat as a billiard table, four images are dispersed. A fragment of an amphora suggests "deep" time, the Greco-Roman past of the Catalan coast. A distant woman, perhaps the constantly remembered nurse of Dali's childhood, is almost bleached out by the sunlight. In a stranded...
Long after their show has gone off the air, GalaxyQuest's cast drag themselves numbly to conventions, where geeks in space suits assault them with technical queries. Turns out a few of the dweebs are actual aliens, who believe the show's actors are just the astral heroes needed to rebuff an attack on their planet. There's a bit of humor in the spectacle of Tim Allen as a Shatnerized action figure and Sigourney Weaver as a blond bimbette, but the premise--familiar from the 1986 comedy !3 Amigos!--needs more ingenuity to enliven it than anyone here could...
...homers in 1987, his first full season, are a rookie record. In 1995 he broke Ruth's season record, established 75 years before, for highest home-run percentage; his career percentage is second only to Ruth's. Besides, his four missiles against the Florida Marlins last week averaged an astral 469 ft., which is greater even than the circumference of his biceps. With or without supplements, McGwire is pure protein power: casein...
...Rock, Con Air) do testosterrific at the wickets. So this Dirty Dozen in outer space will get a rousing send-off. If there's a question, it's about instant deja vu. Armageddon will be the second film this year to star Bruce Willis, to deal with an astral collision--and to destroy the Chrysler building...
...outguess science? Movie moguls hope so, for there are two pricey epics hurtling toward theaters, both about huge chunks of astral matter on a collision course with Earth. There hasn't been such potentially profitable synergy between Hollywood and scare headlines since--well, since Primary Colors...