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...flogging the 10% cut at a town-hall meeting in Michigan, had a change of heart, saying last week that he was happy that tax relief was being debated at all. A plan more likely to emerge from Lott's domain is being drawn up by Senate budget boss Pete Domenici, a cautious deficit hawk who wants to postpone tax cuts until surpluses grow much larger. New Jersey Democrat Robert Torricelli is proposing yet another idea: raise the amount of income subject to the 15% minimum rate and exempt $500 of interest and dividend income and $5,000 in capital...
...turns out that Jelly's boss, Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro), hasn't been feeling well lately. He hasn't been his usual heartless self. He can't beat his enemies to a pulp anymore. "You havin' one of them mind-grains?" Jelly asks. Paul insists he's having a coronary but feels well enough to pound the doctor who dares to tell him it's only an anxiety attack. Jelly decides to be helpful and gives his boss Ben Sobol's business card...
...nearly identical to theone he played in Throw Momma from the Train, buthe performs well enough to make us forget that forhim the film is little more than a retread. DeNiro's acting is occasionally reminiscent of hiswork in The Untouchables, but he milks thejuxtaposition of cruel mob boss and weepy patientfor all it is worth. Joe Viterelli is uniformlyhysterical as the moronic Jelly, all but stealingthe picture from underneath those with highercredit listings. Lisa Kudrow and Chazz Palminteriare given empty pasteboard roles, but they inhabitthem well enough...
...fiasco begins as Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels) is driving home in his beat-up, smoking car after sabotaging his news reporting career by unintentionally flirting with the boss's daughter (Elizabeth Hurley). Suddenly, a flash of light illuminates the sky, and he slams on the brakes. A spacecraft has landed on the nearby Enter Martian--a red, three-eyed creature who sees O'Hara recovering from the shock and, realizing he has landed on planet earth, chews on a piece of blue gum enabling him to transform into Christopher Lloyd. Grace, the spoiled boss's daughter whose glossy lipstick...
...going on behind the curtain--and it doesn't hurt that the star of Dancemaker, Paul Taylor, is one of the foremost choreographers of the 20th century. But Diamond's Oscar-nominated film is as much about the hardworking members of the Taylor company as about their enigmatic boss, and one of the most impressive things about Dancemaker is the way in which the details of the dancers' daily routine--the stresses of touring, the scourge of AIDS, the constant threat of career-ending injury--snap to newly vivid life...