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...first suggestion that something's amiss on Gloomland. The opening track, "You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side," offers little consolation for the skeptical listener. Over the loud but unremarkable guitar crash, Morrissey offers lyrics that sound as if they're lifted from a Debbie Gibson single: "Give yourself a break before you break down ," he snivels. This from the man who created the "Hairdresser on Fire" and put a Walkman on Joan...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: An Empty Arsenal | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

...SWEET OF MURTAUGH (DANNY GLOVer) to keep pulling unlighted cigarettes out of his partner's mouth. Since the cops' lives are a nonstop succession of explosions, fire fights and car chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 25, 1992 | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...awfully good together. He's stubborn, hot tempered and a survivor; she's all high spirits and willfulness, and they both know how to find the comic side of those traits, because, starry glamour aside, they are resourceful actors. Determined to avoid an arranged marriage to Stephen (Thomas Gibson), the very steward who is the source of Joseph's troubles, Shannon runs away to America, taking Joseph along as her servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving In A New World | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...Stars on the screen put fannies in the seats. Sure, but what's a star? * Mel Gibson? In Lethal Weapon movies, but not in Hamlet. Steve Martin? In Father of the Bride, but not in L.A. Story. Over the past three years, only three actors -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Costner and Sean Connery -- have starred in two $100 million-plus pictures. Just one performer has starred in three. But Julia Roberts is taking the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Gets Hot | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...this were a three-hour public radio showwithout commercials, maybe we could do more,"Gibson said...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ABC Broadcasts From the Yard | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

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