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With hard-core rappers Ice-T and Ice Cube as stars and plenty of shoot-'em-up, burn-'em-up action, Universal Pictures' The Looters seemed certain to be one of this summer's box-office winners. But that was before the Rodney King verdict brought real flames and gunshots onto the nation's TV screens. The project, officially described as an "urban suspense adventure," will eventually be renamed and postponed, a decision that "didn't take any grand marketing meeting," said one Universal executive last week. "It was already decided by Monday morning when we all came back...
Basically, summertime is guy time. Males drag their dates to the shoot-'em- ups and blow-'em-ups; and last year they made City Slickers, the Billy Crystal comedy about male bonding on a cattle drive, a gol-durned superhit. Will they flock to the baseball comedy A League of Their Own (July 1), even though it's about an all-girls' team? Will they sit still for Ron Howard's transatlantic love story Far and Away (May 22), with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman? "I worry whether it will have any male appeal," says film analyst Grove...
JEFFREY DAHMER. TED BUNDY. DAVID ("SON OF Sam") Berkowitz. Collect 'em, trade 'em, memorize their stats. It's hard for a mere baseball card to compete with the latest offering in candy stores and comic-book shops: "killer cards" that feature notorious mass murderers, complete with gory drawings and graphic descriptions of their crimes. Some New York State legislators, with the support of victims' rights groups, are seeking to crack down on the unsavory trading cards. Their bill, which parallels proposed legislation in a handful of other states, would make it a misdemeanor to sell such cards to minors. Argues...
...there any question what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers would have done for 1,600 men held prisoner only a day's ride from Austin?" cried Perot, who then explained that Hanoi was only 24 hours away by air, and we should saddle up, ride out and get 'em. He further urged the State of Texas to deploy a delegation of local leaders to confront the Pathet Lao and the Viet Cong and to demand the release of Texas POWS. Our then Governor, known to all as POP Smith, for Poor Ol' Preston, was intellectually challenged by the task...
Offensive punch and defensive tenacity--the Crimson's got 'em both...