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Professor of Astronomy A.G.W. Cameron experiences the same lack of free time that Owen does...
This popularity seems unwavering. Cameron Mackintosh, who produced all three and also Miss Saigon, projects that Cats "will run another two years or so in New York." He predicts "four to five years" of additional life for Les Miserables and "certainly at least five years" more for Phantom. About Saigon, he says it is too soon to tell, especially because the show is so elaborate. "With weekly operating costs close to $500,000," says Mackintosh, "Miss Saigon only breaks even when it makes what Les Miz does selling every seat...
...gone south, dynamiting computer facilities, threatening to inject drain cleaner into the veins of her captors, stashing weapons with her own righteous version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. She is a more twisted sister of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in Aliens (also written and directed by T2's James Cameron), who proves her maternal mettle by blasting a space monster to ugly bits...
...testosterone count than the national debt ceiling; they solve problems with artillery and adrenaline. And too many filmmakers, strapped by the conventions of the shoot-'em-up genre, think they are solving the problem of beefing up women's roles by turning them into beefcake. It's steroid screenwriting. Cameron wonders, Why can't a (modern) woman be more like a (mean) man? Then he makes her into...
...moment never comes. T2 dithers off to transform Schwarzenegger into a mixture of E.T. and Shane. As for Hamilton, who in The Terminator had been a precursor for all the tough-as-kryptonite women in Cameron's later films, she degenerates into a radical ranter, like Patty Hearst in her S.L.A. phase. Is this worth $100 million? Who cares? Ask instead: Is it worthy of our expectations for this Sequel of Sequels? The answer is: not quite. Terminator 2 had to be more than just the summer's best action movie...