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...Burt Reynolds 2. Charlton Heston 3. Charles Grodin 4. William Shatner 5. Marv Albert 6. Frank Sinatra...
...question, Heart and Souls is a cry movie in every stitch of its elaborate plot. In 1959 four strangers -- a working mother (Alfre Woodard), a petty thief (Tom Sizemore), a waitress in love (Kyra Sedgwick) and a timid opera singer (Charles Grodin) -- board a San Francisco bus and die when the driver swerves to avoid a car. In that car, at that moment, a woman gives birth to a boy, Thomas; and in his body the spirits of the four dead passengers are trapped. Today the ghosts have learned that Thomas (Robert Downey Jr.) can perform one act for each...
...medical profession fail Reggie Lewis? Perhaps he could have used more guidance. "Where was his primary-care doctor?" asks Michael Grodin, a professor of medical ethics at the Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health. "He needed someone with a broader perspective . . . to sort things out for him, to ask the right questions of the specialists." Still, no one knew for sure what caused Lewis to faint on that fateful April day. Not even the results of the autopsy, which are expected this week at the earliest, can be guaranteed to provide the answer. Whatever was wrong, says Diaco...
...bristles too. He's warm without being entirely cuddlesome. Weaver has a veteran wife's weary wariness down perfectly. Ving Rhames as a Secret Service man allowing Dave to melt his professional steeliness, Kevin Dunn as the press secretary for whom "no comment" is a moral statement, and Charles Grodin as a CPA appalled by federal accounting practices complete one of the best comic ensembles in years. Under Reitman's unforced and confident direction, they ground improbable fantasy in very human, very winning believability...
PRICE OF FAME. Movie star Charles Grodin headlines off-Broadway in his own play about a movie star being interviewed by a reporter (the beguiling Lizbeth Mackay) who he realizes is out to do him in. He returns the favor more literally in a glib, genial formula comedy...