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...their mind. Ron Howard's Ed TV is about a fellow plucked from obscurity who becomes a star when his life airs live on a 24-hour cable series, and Gary Ross's Pleasantville is about a couple of siblings who get stuck in a '50s sitcom. Shades of Groundhog Day: sophisticated variations of media-bent virtual reality...
Daily Spin "It's the only thing that happens here." ? Thomas Jobe, 20, explaining why he joined 15,000 other spectators in Punxsutawney, Pa., to witness whether Phil the groundhog would see his shadow. Phil did, forecasting six more weeks of winter...
...White House last week dumped its second load of videotapes of Bill Clinton schmoozing potential donors. Watching them is a bit like sitting through Groundhog Day, the movie in which Bill Murray keeps repeating the same 24 hours of his life. In almost any segment, you see the President entering a room or in a receiving line. Now he charms, now he mixes, now he makes small talk ("Nice tie!"). At some point he may accept a token of appreciation, like a lucky rock or a ceremonial dagger. He delivers some cheerleaderish remarks and shakes every hand that looks capable...
...July 12). Life is too much for one man (husband-father-careerist Michael Keaton). So, aided by weird science, he becomes three men--himself and a couple of clones--two of whom he can't trust. The trailer suggests that director Harold Ramis is revisiting what he did in Groundhog Day: underplaying a man's pleasure, then exasperation, in the face of the miraculous...
...weapons. In 1991 an Army Green Beret sergeant pleaded guilty to stockpiling weapons and explosives and funneling them to white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Pentagon officials admit they are troubled by the existence of two underground newsletters circulated in military bases, the Resister and the Groundhog, which espouse some of the same radical antigovernment beliefs as the controversial militias linked to the Nichols brothers...