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...boxers don headgears, put on jock straps over their shorts and spar, I set goals. And from seeing Tommy do crazy exercises (he can rock back and forth on his stomach! His stomach!) and watching him run all over the MAC for three hours screaming, "Now give 'em a hook! Yah! Yah! You're loose like ashes! Yah!"--I found inspiration...
...director determined to make a "statement"? The patience, obviously, of movie executives determined to indulge his or her imperious auteurship. And the inordinate length of the movies now trying our patience. The good (JFK) would be better, the so-so (The Prince of Tides) greatly improved, and the bad (Hook) less tiresome if everyone would learn to get on and off in under two hours. Give us a break, guys...
...HOOK. In this bloated fantasy, a middle-aged Peter Pan (Robin Williams) regains his youth battling a drawling Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Steven Spielberg's zillionth reworking of his lost-children theme is a Spruce Goose of a movie: so big, so long, so pretty . . . it just...
PETER PAN. Critics scoffed when ex-gymnast Cathy Rigby dared to take on Mary Martin's showcase role, but she has proved herself a worthy successor -- on national tour and, for two holiday seasons, on Broadway. The special effects will never compare with Hook, but the storytelling is sweeter and more...
...CINEMA Hook, Steven Spielberg's Peter Pan remake, doesn't have wings...