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...Ivan Reitman to massage the script of Kindergarten Cop. ("I felt he was somewhat written out," says Reitman of original writer Murray Salem. Says Salem: "He was not that friendly to me.") James Caan recalls career missteps that included turning down the lead roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer...
Count on Awakenings, written by Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like...
...youngster with muscular dystrophy battles against "inhumane" treatment in nursing homes. Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) stars in this junior-varsity version of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...other hand, directly after Wonder's quote, the section labeled "Anonymous" begins by citing the Cuckoo Song form the year 1250: "Summer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, and springth the wude nu--Sing cuccu!" I suppose in the context of the latter, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," doesn't sound so silly...
...realize what they've missed." Co-producer Emanuel Azenberg must hope so too. "Shows that have been successful lately are just not for me," he says. "Then I see the suite of dances from West Side Story, and tears are coming. I realize that my values are not so cuckoo -- this was good. You walk out of the theater reaffirming the values that had you walking into the theater 30 years...