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...Cal-Berkeley 2, Santa Barabara...
...Southern Cal...
DIED. Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, actor and model who was starring in the new TV series Cover Up until he shot himself in the temple two weeks ago with a blank-loaded .44-cal. Magnum pistol while playing "Russian roulette"; of brain damage; in San Francisco. After a week's struggle to save his life, doctors pronounced him brain dead, and his heart, kidneys and corneas were used for transplants. The show will go on; a search for Hexum's replacement has already started...
...great deal of sensitivity. Mirren is attractively demure, suitably drained of spirit, and reluctant to connect with the people about her. Lynch's pale, emaciated body, his sallow face with long unkempt hair, and his silent dejected look combine to create a continual haunting presence. Donal McCann, as Cal's father, contributes to the most moving moments in the film (those scenes between father and son that intersperse and intensify the story...
...Cal is a fine film and also that rare thing: a successful adaptation of a novel. It stands as a penetrating documentary that has no message, as a political thriller that is not an adventure, and as a love story without romance. Quietly it immerses us into the daily realities of life in contemporary Northern Ireland...