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...MacDonald (Helen Hunt) is teaching sign language to her prize pupil, a chimpanzee named Virgil (beautifully played -- no kidding -- by a chimp named Willie). After two years, Virgil is shipped to an Air Force base in Florida for a top-secret experiment shepherded by Jimmy Garrett (Broderick), a bright, goof-off airman who develops the same parental bond for Virgil that Teri had. Soon Teri, the Mary Beth Whitehead of primate research, is off to Florida to steal back her chimp-child. The ensuing custody battle will involve Jimmy, the Air Force brass and a balky nuclear reactor...
Thanks to a printer's goof, several hundred students who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test last Saturday will have to go through the three-hour ordeal all over again...
...that he could be heard, he threatened to bomb the Russians and treat terrorists with-like vengeance. When off-the-cuff remarks mar the wholesome image he tries to project, he expects a purged "take two." But the chief exec is under the constant, unforgiving spotlight of live TV. Goof-ups are on the record, like...
Coca-Cola, which last week reported third-quarter profits of $196 million, up 12% from a year ago, was far from ready to call New Coke a goof or to yank the heavily promoted product from the market. The company claims that the combination of New and Classic Coke has made the world's leading soft drink more popular than ever. It also pointed out that New Coke is outselling Classic Coke 2 to 1 in Canada and as much as 10 to 1 in Puerto Rico, the only places outside the continental U.S. where it is currently available...
...Patsy's mother, Ann Wedgeworth gives a strong and lovely reactive performance, and Harris, with his Tom Sawyer grin, convinces the viewer that this goof-off has residues of charm Patsy can find intermittently irresistible. Lange keeps on astonishing. Hefty and bawdy, with a macaw's cackle in good times and a face like a fist in bad, Lange plays Patsy as a cracker Wife of Bath, sated with sexual love and hungry for more. Her Patsy would be a subtle stunner in any season. Right now she is enough to make moviegoers forget the boys and toys of summer...