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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
Demme (Melvin and Howard) is on higher ground and does a snappier dance. E. Max Frye's script offers a careering trip through the East Coast Nighttown previously explored by Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours and Blue Velvet. Solid Citizen Jeff Daniels meets Madcap Airhead Melanie Griffith and in a trice is stripped, handcuffed, kidnaped, beaten up and plied with big wet licky kisses. Natch, he goes for it. "What are you gonna do," Melanie asks, "now that you've seen how the other half lives . . . the other half of you." Daniels holds together better than the movie, which lurches...
...attorney Robert Griffith said his client was released and the case was continued to Nov. 10 when he and the prosecutor apologized. Both had meant to ask for more time to prepare for the hearing, but neither had done so, Griffith said...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow...
...eyes of Wall Streeters, Ron Howard has made a successful transition from tyke to tycoon. Once the lovable little red-haired Opie on the Andy Griffith Show, Howard, 32, is now a film director and businessman whose movies Splash and Cocoon were commercial and critical smashes. Imagine Films Entertainment, the production company that he started this year with Partner Brian Grazer, 34, went public last week, selling 1.7 million units at $8 each. On the first day of the offering, the price surged to $18.25, and the stock closed out the week at $15.25. As Opie's friend Gomer Pyle...