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...business could return to normal, as follow-ups to three popular comedies of 1992 come to market. Sister Act ($140 million at the North American box office), Wayne's World ($122 million) and Beethoven ($57 million) tickled audiences with humor that stretched all the way -- about a foot and a half -- from sitcoms to Saturday Night Live. The SNL-bred Wayne's World was agreeably hip, loose and clever, as befits smart guys acting goofy. But the other two films were hapless rehashes of working-girl and family themes done to death by the networks...
...tweaks of gags and attitude; this time, in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, the nuns do a rap number in addition to '60s Motown. These films are also "family" pictures, which means they bear a message -- though the message can be severe in the Home Alone '90s. Beethoven's 2nd teaches that if you mess with a pooch and his humans, you can get creamed by a house, dropped off a cliff or neutered. Ah, the new family values...
...recommended CD-ROM titles include "Multimedia Beethoven," which features a wonderful performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and bar-by-bar analysis and "Bookshelf" from Microsoft, "Languages of the World from NTC" and "Star Trek: 25th Anniversary" from Interplay...
...gang, Microsoft's "Multimedia Beethoven," is also available. Another title worth checking out is Grolier's "Multimedia Encyclopedia...
...Cardinal likes to spend 15 minutes each afternoon at the piano. He is particularly fond of Mozart and Beethoven. "Brahms," he says, "is too difficult for me." Other difficulties include modern technology -- computers, stereos, gizmos and cars. He has never earned a driver's license. His talents lie in another realm. He can, say his associates, refine doctrine from a chaos of arguments. Says an aide: "He has the ability to synthesize a lot of collected, sometimes contradictory, information and put it into words that are compelling, straightforward and above all true to what he believes." And what he believes...