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...TITLE: GROUNDHOG...
...cheer the emergence of Groundhog Day, a very original comedy about deja vu. A Pittsburgh weatherman (Bill Murray) visits Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, home of the Groundhog Day Festival, and finds himself forced to relive that particular Feb. 2 over and over, maybe forever -- or at least until he gets it right. You might describe the film as Son of The Exterminating Angel (1963), Luis Bunuel's surrealist movie prank about a dinner party no one can leave. But, not to worry, it ends up as It's a Wonderful Life. And it has Murray, who, ever since his debut on Saturday...
...rock nor an insipid imitation of punk. If we are confronted with a smorgasbord of styles, it may be because Rock peaked in the seventies and frayed in the eighties in the face of gum-snapping pop mall music from hell. Rock is resurfacing in the 90s like a groundhog scared of its own shadow, and many musicians claim they'd rather be dead (or unsigned) than be imitators of their predecessors or of each other. So we're left with a load of musicians scrambling desperately not to resemble anything, with mixed results...
...captivates a beskinned and unbathed French trapper, with whom she has seven children. The failing local college - is finally abandoned after a bear kills a student, and the town's first Norwegian is a Union Army deserter whose descendants, the Sons of Knute, hold a yearly contest, starting on Groundhog Day, where you bet on the day and hour a 1949 Ford will sink through the ice and into the lake. "Left to our own devices," writes Keillor, "we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes...
...jump an early spring gave the squads (despite the claims by one rather uncooperative groundhog that it will be a late spring) a strong advantage this year, and with a heavyweight crew four boats deep Harvard is looking confidently toward winning at San Diego. One thing's for certain: San Diego's going to look a lot better than Cambridge this time of year, no matter how they...