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...laughable performance. In her big scene in which she must grieve both the death of her father and her marriage, Ferrara must work Madlyn into a rage of frustration and abandonment. Instead she stands limp and half-heartedly bounces objects off Keitel. The audience can do nothing but laugh when she delivers her lines, addressing her husband quite unbelievably as "man". "Dangerous Game" has once again jeopardized Madonna's chance at movie stardom. Add this latest bomb to the cluttered video shelves somewhere between "Body of Evidence" and "Shanghai Surprise...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Madonna's 'Dangerous,' Is not | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...that doesn't take away the sing of losing. Even after Harvard played Yale evenly for most of Saturday's contest, the Elis got the last laugh...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: An End to a Frustrating Campaign | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...white couple: "The two of them stood frozen as I bore down on them. I felt a surge of power: these people were mine . . . If I had been younger, with less to lose, I'd have robbed them." Instead Staples shouted good evening and strolled away with a laugh. There are few better examples in literature of the contained fury toward whites that grips even the most outwardly docile black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Between Two Worlds | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...though beef lobbyists and overweight- pride groups may grumble about the ceaseless bashing of carnivores and the amply proportioned. Theroux's main dodge is to see American puritanism in a frankly physical rather than spiritual light. Readers may take this sleight to heart or turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing host of a TV kiddie show who is a child molester offscreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: High-Fiber Moralist | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...Event, said that while growing up, Tom was very much like the scheming, clever, but naive character, Joel, whom he played in "Risky Business." They had nice things to say about him, too, commenting on his early display of affinity for interacting with people, entertaining them, and making them laugh with his energetic performances during his acting experiences in high school...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: All Life Is a Boat, And Tom's Cruisin' | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

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