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Internal Affairs The year's best urban action film -- cool, smart and heartless -- is also a moral tale about the infinitely corruptive power of sexual attraction. Richard Gere's performance as a good cop gone rancid is a marvel of slipperiness...
...could hope for money, fame, power, love, brains and muscles? Only Arnold, as he is everywhere known. Just now he is the movies' top star, the one whose name above the title of a film -- Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, Predator, Twins, Total Recall or his new Kindergarten Cop -- guarantees that people will buy tickets or snatch up the videocassette. He didn't need a plastic surgeon or a movie-agent Mephistopheles to become Arnold; his eminence is a triumph of the will. Even if he weren't a celebrity, he would be richer than Webster; his shrewd entrepreneurship...
...deal. He will show up on time, throw his beautifully beveled body into every scene, take direction conscientiously -- and when it comes time to promote the picture, press the flesh till fingers go numb. "Arnold loves being a movie star," says Ivan Reitman, his director on Twins and Kindergarten Cop. "He approaches the role with great gusto and charm. He is a throwback to the classic movie stars of the '40s, who were proud of their profession. If you're going...
...grin, and the put-off is revealed as a put-on. So to cast Schwarzenegger in comedy is very nearly redundant -- especially when, as with Twins (1988), it offered nothing more than Hollywood high concept: pairing the big guy with scruffy shrimp Danny De Vito. Even lamer is Kindergarten Cop, which opens in the U.S. this week. The film can't even live up to its title, which suggests an hour or so of big bad Arnold coping comically with snotty tykes. Oh, young performers from the Professional School for Kute Kids do get to recite part of the Gettysburg...
...original $1 million offer had prompted three weeks of campus protests. Many students and faculty members denounced the deal as a cop-out for the university and a windfall for Berendzen. Last week's compromise got a better reception. Said Diane Jackson of the Undergraduate Student Confederation: "This is a compassionate solution that will allow Dr. Berendzen and the A.U. community the time they need to heal." Still, many faculty members are hoping that by the spring of 1992, Berendzen will choose to go elsewhere...