Word: megabudget
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...pleasures. If, 18 months ago, you had publicly predicted that the top-grossing pictures of 1990 would be Home Alone, Ghost, Pretty Woman and Dances with Wolves, you could now be running the major studio of your choice. If, like most everyone, you had put your money on megabudget action adventures, you could be Frank Mancuso, who doesn't run Paramount Pictures anymore. Starting this month, the movie industry puts its snazziest fashions on display. The only thing certain about the product is that there will be more of it -- 50 films, by one count, compared with 35 last summer...
...missing is an animating cohesion that would keep the actors from looking stranded in two different movies. In his singing and dancing debut, Martin goes through paces with the game energy of Dr. Johnson's dog, and the other stars seem weighed down by the movie's megabudget. Only Vernel Bagneris-with his dusky sensitivity and a body that moves through his soft-shoe number like a Slinky on an escalator-develops a strong personality. Visually too Pennies is of two minds: Ken Adam's precisely gaudy sets need megawatt illumination, but Cinematographer Gordon Willis keeps most...