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...Summer films are for kids, winter films for adults. Not lately. This past winter played like the Nickelodeon Channel on the big screen. The four $100 million-plus movies were based on fairy tales (Beauty and the Beast, Hook) or kooky TV turns (The Addams Family, Wayne's World). Rivals are looking at Paramount's recent success with youth-oriented TV rip-offs (Addams and Wayne's, plus the Star Trek and Naked Gun series) and thinking seriously about green lighting retreads of reruns: Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, even The Flintstones with John Goodman as Fred. This summer...
...Sometimes I want to go home and relax, put the phone off the hook, but you can't do that with roommates," says Petschek...
...make those pitches the same way. I cannot tell you how many times I've said ((about a proposed film)), 'Well, it's kind of like Nashville, it's a Nashville kind of structure.' The film does not escape its own satire. We didn't let anybody off the hook...
There wasn't much suspense in the Visual Effects category at last week's ^ Oscars. The nominees were Hook, for its twinkly, shrinkly Tinkerbell (created by a team at producer George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic shop), Backdraft, for its nifty fire rampage (Industrial Light & Magic) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in part for its liquid-metal cyborg that can "morph" -- change seamlessly, seductively -- into any shape (Industrial Light & Magic). And the Oscar went to . . . Industrial Light & Magic...
About 90 students dialed the number, but the phones were not ringing off the hook in the Office of the Dean of Students but in The Harvard Crimson business office...