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...well as its VCRs, bookshelves, record stores and CD players. The dominance is especially pronounced on movie marquees. In most foreign countries, the most popular films are from Hollywood: brain-bashing action epics from Schwarzenegger and Stallone, to be sure, but also fantasy romances like Pretty Woman and Ghost. If we make it, they want it -- and lately, if they are Japanese, they want to buy the American companies that make it. Foreign investors realize that in the chancy business of manufacturing popular art, Hollywood has an ever tighter grip on the world's pulse. Since 1985 the overseas take...
...CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $25). This handsome edition preserves every word of the original; only Roberto Innocenti's pictures are new. And what appealing images they are: the materializing ghost of Marley; the affable Cratchits; Scrooge flying over the rooftops of London; and above all, Tiny Tim offering his eternally appropriate Christmas message: "God Bless Us, Every...
...given to him in Vietnam (it was supposed to make everyone in his Army unit more aggressive), we are reminded of the '80s effort to come to terms with the war. And since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife, we are reminded of Ghost (another effort by the same screenwriter, Bruce Joel Rubin), which one fervently hopes is not going to set the style for the '90s. In other words, director Adrian Lyne has encapsulated the cliches of three decades in a single dreadful and hysterical movie. This may be of interest to film...
...other two candidates refuse to give upthe ghost so easily. Stevens says there is agroundswell of support which she fully anticipateswill carry her through...
What gives Ghost its spooky staying power? The Paramount film will pass Disney's Pretty Woman this week to become the biggest box-office draw of the year, grossing almost $180 million since July. The sleeper hit, which tells the story of a murdered young Manhattanite who maintains a spectral presence on earth to protect his wife, has marketing experts trying to figure out its success. One theory is that the film's spiritual message prompts moviegoers to see it over and over with cultlike devotion. Paramount has taken out classified notices in newspapers saying, "If you have seen Ghost...