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TALES FROM THE CRYPT (HBO, June 10, 9:30 p.m.). Those scary old E.C. comics inspired three horror tales, each directed by a Hollywood heavyweight: Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future), Walter Hill (48 Hrs.) and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon...
...Vafa richly deserves the award because he is one of the leaders in his field at a young age," said Donner Professor of Science Sidney R. Coleman, who won the fellowship 28 years...
...film's writers, Saturday Night Live veterans Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue, know that all a TV skit needs is a likable star and some lunatic vamping. Because of the Dickens frame, this formula works at feature length, even if Richard Donner's close-up and impersonal direction clangs like the chains on Marley's ghost. And because, 4 1/2 years after his last star turn in a movie comedy (Ghostbusters), Murray remains a roguish delight to watch. As sham friendly as the guy who cheated off you in high school, as ersatz hip as a Vegas lounge singer...
...pass through the Sierra Nevadas and the run through the ruddy shadow of the Rockies. The California Zephyr route takes passengers past places they would normally miss -- like Thompson, Utah, where the presence of the train doubles the size of the town. And the Ruby Canyon, the throat-tightening Donner Pass. For additional company, there are bald eagles, elk, prairie dogs, deer springing up alongside the tracks at twilight as the car slides past, cameras flashing from the windows. Even a bored 15-year-old cannot maintain her sangfroid in the face of such a host, and wrenches the camera...
...enough smarts to realize that the unlikely plot machinations of Momma call for unconventional visual tricks and he also has enough imagination to pull them off. The camera swoops and pans at dramatic moments and will pull right up to an actor's face for a gag line. When Donner collapses on the floor after a particularly exhausting encounter with Momma, the camera spirals slowly upwards...