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MARYLAND, 11-10 at Goodman StadiumMaryland 5 4 2 -- 10Harvard...
HARVARD, 10-5 at Goodman StadiumHarvard 4 6 -- 10Princeton...
...Wayne's World). Rivals are looking at Paramount's recent success with youth-oriented TV rip-offs (Addams and Wayne's, plus the Star Trek and Naked Gun series) and thinking seriously about green lighting retreads of reruns: Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, even The Flintstones with John Goodman as Fred. This summer's only TV spin-off may gross less yet turn out to be more memorable than any of these: David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with...
...BOTTOM LINE: An honestly unheroic view of a hero, with a grand-slam performance by John Goodman...
...just be, however, that they will turn out to see the always likable John Goodman and come away enthralled by a marvelous acting achievement. Goodman is every inch the arrested adolescent -- all appetite and no regrets until they are too late -- that the Babe was. To maintain sympathy for a figure who never "develops" in the customary dramatic sense (let alone morally or intellectually), he nicely balances force-of-nature rambunctiousness and a shadowed befuddlement about the mysterious requirements of civilized behavior. His Ruth is vigorous and vulgar but somehow not boorish, poignantly sweet-spirited at times but never self...