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...ghost of the congressional Iran-contra hearings has long hung over the cases of key figures in the scandal. Last week the ghost was haunting the prosecutors of Oliver North. A three-member appeals court in Washington overturned one of North's three convictions. The court sent the other two back % to federal Judge Gerhard Gesell for him to determine whether North's testimony at congressional inquiries into the scandal had in effect been used against him by the grand jury that indicted him, by the staff of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh or by any of the prosecution...
...smash. If nearly all the June movies could be called Total Recall (so reminiscent are they of previous action hits), the films of July and August could be labeled Presumed Interesting. Moviegoers are looking for something different, and they may have already found it in the postmortem romantic thriller Ghost or the eye-spider horror comedy Arachnophobia. Presumed Innocent hopes to corner the serious market. Even David Lynch is invading summertime with his bizarro-world Wild at Heart. Each hopes to duplicate the surprise-hit status of last summer's When Harry Met Sally, Dead Poets Society, Parenthood and Honey...
Some American Plains Indians in their late 19th century twilight took to ritual "ghost dancing" in the hope of ridding themselves of the white man. The intifadeh is either ghost dancing or nation building, and sometimes it is both simultaneously. It has crystallized the Palestinians' sense of themselves as a nation, but it is a phantom nation still, incandescent but insubstantial...
This movie disregards so many rules of balance and sensibility that it incidentally winds up being innovative. Zucker et al create a spiffy, whimsical New York ghost community for Sam to dwell in, complete with a supernatural subway wacko...
...wackos and murderers aside, Ghost is a little like Caspar in that it doesn't have a mean bone in its body. This is a well-intentioned, often corny and misguided movie. If the hilarious mugshots of Oda Mae from her charlatan past don't make you laugh, the special effects will. Ghost is bad enough to be good, and sweet enough that you'll forgive its transgressions...