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...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...
...only credible touch in a film reeking of Hollywood sham. In Roseanne Goodman has created a full-blooded portrait of a working-class lug, equally credible whether giving heartfelt advice to a teenage daughter or doing boisterous pirouettes in a bowling alley. He seems to mesh perfectly with Barr; Goodman can be deferential even while he is stealing the show...
Goodman's co-workers speak enthusiastically of his talent and dedication, as well as his offscreen antics. "John is a lot of fun," says Barr. "He puts us on the floor." Director John Pasquin praises Goodman's "fertile imagination" as an actor. In one upcoming episode, his character is caught eating ice cream when he is supposed to be on a diet. Goodman improvised the notion of quickly swallowing the ice cream and then fighting off a piercing headache from the cold. Marvels Pasquin: "It was totally rooted in the situation, not something you would ordinarily think of, and hysterically...
...their lists of who's in and who's out for the coming year. According to PEOPLE, USA Today and W, greed and selfishness are '80s evils. The new year promises a more compassionate, humane crop of idols. Generally getting the cold shoulder for 1990 are hardhearts like Roseanne Barr, Bryant Gumbel, Eddie Murphy and Margaret Thatcher. The new In crowd includes such softies as Delta Burke, Arsenio Hall, Madonna and Meryl Streep. Rocker Janet Jackson has ended up with a foot in both camps. Time to pull it together, Janet...
...series, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil went gleefully over the top, pitying or despising all its characters. But comedy on the American plan can go soft, as Barr proved when she gave her abrasive stand-up-comic persona a sweetie-pie makeover for her hit TV show. She-Devil does the same to Weldon, without substituting much style or attitude. The movie is its own sitcom pilot, and only Streep watchers will be laughing...