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...ballet all through her school years. She choreographed her college drill team in Arkansas and moved on to a brief stint in modeling while studying for her master's degree in early-childhood education at the University of Central Arkansas. Her stage work stopped when she began teaching kindergarten. But her dance training and modeling experience make her the exception rather than the rule in this production; most of the other cast members have had neither...
...avoid "overpackaged" films that are chock-full of stars. Case in point: Warner's The Bonfire of the Vanities, the $35 million fiasco starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. Other studios, notably Universal Pictures, are stressing "back-end" deals, in which such stars as Arnold Schwarzenegger (Kindergarten Cop) and Tom Cruise (Born on the Fourth of July) receive a cut of ticket sales as opposed to a hefty up-front salary. "If we don't control costs, we won't have much of an industry left," warns Thomas Pollock, head of Universal, whose $40 million- plus Havana died...
...case before the court involved an Oklahoma City busing program that began in 1972, nine years after a finding that both schools and housing in the city were intentionally segregated. In 1985 the Oklahoma City board adopted a policy that ended busing for kindergarten through fourth grade in favor of attendance at neighborhood schools. Single-race patterns of enrollment re- emerged in some neighborhoods; 11 of the city's 64 schools now have student bodies that are 90% or more black. Local civil rights leaders argued that the pattern was proof that the original desegregation program failed. School-board attorneys...
...fair deal. He will show up on time, throw his beautifully beveled body into every scene, take direction conscientiously -- and when it comes time to promote the picture, press the flesh till fingers go numb. "Arnold loves being a movie star," says Ivan Reitman, his director on Twins and Kindergarten Cop. "He approaches the role with great gusto and charm. He is a throwback to the classic movie stars of the '40s, who were proud of their profession. If you're going...
...toothed grin, and the put-off is revealed as a put-on. So to cast Schwarzenegger in comedy is very nearly redundant -- especially when, as with Twins (1988), it offered nothing more than Hollywood high concept: pairing the big guy with scruffy shrimp Danny De Vito. Even lamer is Kindergarten Cop, which opens in the U.S. this week. The film can't even live up to its title, which suggests an hour or so of big bad Arnold coping comically with snotty tykes. Oh, young performers from the Professional School for Kute Kids do get to recite part...