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...capable of visualizing all of that, then you'll probably have little trouble understanding all the promotional hype behind Debra Winger's latest film. Mike's Murder. And, if you happened to see Terms of Endearment, you can probably surmise what talent--if any--she brings to the production. What you might have trouble understanding after seeing the film though is, career and financial opportunism aside, why anyone would support this movie...
...Murder could have been both an excellent psychological study and a thriller along the lines of Body Heat. Yet because these issues are never truly explored and the film lacks coherence, it is little more than a potpourri of halfdeveloped ideas and undeveloped characters. And that is something Debra Winger can truly cry about...
Teaching executives to exude the right stuff is the business of Denver's Benton Management Resources, which has seen its sales double in the past year, from $100,000 to $200,000, without a word of advertising. Debra Benton, 30, a tall (5 ft. 9 in.) former Colorado beauty queen who drives around town in a red Porsche convertible, founded her firm eight years ago after working with her husband, an executive recruiter. She charges men $100 an hour and women $60 an hour, and $1,500 for eight-hour courses...
...however, really belonged to Brooks. In a Hollywood story older than the Oscars themselves, he had been turned down by almost every studio in town before Paramount finally said yes, it would help him make a comedy in which one of the leading characters, Aurora's daughter Emma (Debra Winger), dies of cancer. "The script was always killed with kindness," says Brooks. "People really liked it but perceived it as a small, dark, emotional comedy. I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want...
...urban pit dogs-a Bronx hoodlum (John Turturro) and a vagrant young mother (June Stein)-at each other's throats with coarsely romantic results, but the conclusion is too optimistic to be quite convincing. The Undoing, by William Mastrosimone, offers promise of a fascinating character: a woman (Debra Monk), now running her late husband's poultry business, whose rage is so pure and carnal that it alone keeps her alive and kicking. Along comes a plot twist that was hoary when Shakespeare used it, and Mastrosimone ends up with a fowl play...