Word: ghosting
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...movies set more daunting agendas for their protagonists in limbo. In Bill Cosby's inane comedy Ghost Dad, the late Cos must close a business deal and get a physical so his family will have life insurance. Then he must convince his daughter, who has also entered the twilight zone, that "life is all there is." In response she utters the year's top supersloppy double dare: "I'll get back into my body if you'll get back in yours." Darned if he doesn't. Dad, you see, is not dead yet. But his movie...
...Ghost -- a bad movie that a lot of people will like. It's got suspense, comedy, a big chase and a little sex. It has Demi Moore, pert and intense, every emotion acutely aquiver in fine Debra Winger fashion. But though director Jerry Zucker wants his necrophiliac romance to be sensitive, he pumps up its feelings fortissimo so the dimmest viewer will get the point. And in its vision of death on earth, Ghost is exasperatingly capricious...
...because the promotion package would have included a large life insurance policy, Cosby's ghost sees a way to provide for his children. All he needs to do is convince the people he works for that he's still alive, at least until all the paperwork is signed. Once the promotion is officially approved, he can die safely...
Naturally, it's no easy task for a ghost to pretend to be a living, breathing human being. And to pass a life-insurance physical? This is one resourceful dead...
...Turn of the Screw, May 3-5 and 10-12 at Dunster House. Director Caroline Chaffin's adaptation of Henry James' classic ghost story of two children possessed by their governess...