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...recent Sweet Old World (Chameleon/Elektra), and an intrepid small record company in New Jersey called Bar/None has a real comer in Freedy Johnson. His album, titled Can You Fly, features the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter stalking his own subconscious, sounding like a cross between Hank Williams (on The Mortician's Daughter) and a skid-row Springsteen (on We Will Shine). John Prine had a wonderful new album a few months back, The Missing Years (Oh Boy), and Luka Bloom's The Acoustic Motorbike (Reprise) is like Celine in high spirits. It's all enough to make you believe that that staple...
...GIRL. Mack is back, but this time he's not home alone. He's an allergy- prone 11-year-old whose best friend, Vada (Anna Chlumsky), is a hypochondriac who lives in a funeral parlor. Dan Aykroyd, Vada's widowed, mortician father, learns about love and the living from his makeup artist, Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin), this sweet saga is both hilarious and heartrending. Don't forget the Kleenex...
Marshall also enlists the entire town in a supporting role. The local sheriff (Stuart Pankin), town doctor (Henry Jones), mortician (Peter Jason) and others help construct a humorous and more importantly, credible sketch of a town which has come under siege. As much as anything, it is well scripted characters tightly-drawn by the director and almost flawlessly executed by the cast which makes Arachnophobia the success...
...question nags at directors of suspense movies: What would Hitch have done? Like Walt Disney with cartoons, Alfred Hitchcock was thought not just to have invented a film genre but to have patented it. His trademarks -- the mortician's wit, the danse-macabre pacing, the elegant economy of his editing -- entertained moviegoers and enlightened moviemakers for a half-century. It's not that nobody did it better, but that everybody did it his way. Everybody still does. Almost seven years after his death, Hitchcock's bluff majesty continues to influence and intimidate all those who would make crime pictures...
...hurricanes when you can switch to radio and hear Debbie from Manitoba describing her low clitoral sensitivity? How can soccer riots compare with Rosalie of Omaha asking Dr. Ruth which porno films to flash on the ceiling while locked in the clumsy embrace of Husband Bob, the rapid-fire mortician...