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...KENNEDY CENTER HONORS (CBS, Dec. 26, 9 p.m. EST). Washington's black-tie crowd pays tribute to another passel of show-business greats. This year's honorees are Gregory Peck, Roy Acuff, Broadway and film veterans Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the dancing Nicholas Brothers and choral director Robert Shaw...
Bradshaw--Beattie--M. Scott Peck...
...things De Niro isn't: big and sexy. De Niro's Cady, though, has the cunning of madness. His body tattooed with Old Testament threats, he is a sleek machine of vengeance. He even has some reason for his rank righteousness. Unlike the 1962 film's lawyer (Gregory Peck), who had simply been the witness to Cady's criminal activity, this Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) was once Cady's lawyer, and he has plenty to hide. Sam, his wife Leigh (Jessica Lange) and their daughter Danny (Juliette Lewis) are no ideal family. But they are ideal marks for Cady...
...while giving him all the best lines and, in the end, the winning position in a classic '80s confrontation: ruthless raider vs. responsible corporation. Larry's target of opportunity is staid, gently paternalistic New England Wire & Cable. Only one man could possibly be its CEO, and, sure enough, Gregory Peck has the job. His "Jorgy" Jorgenson is as stiff as Larry is slinky, a man who's all stature and no smarts. Luckily his longtime lover and assistant (Piper Laurie) has a daughter, Kate, who is building a career as a brilliant Wall Street lawyer. If anybody can save management...
...wrote?" You bet, when every number is a small ruby; the first act alone comprises its own Top 10 eternal hit parade. The ballads If I Were a Bell and I've Never Been in Love Before and the up- tempo Fugue for Tinhorns and A Bushel and a Peck distinguish any musical. But the savor of Guys and Dolls is in Loesser's capturing of the Damon Runyon Broadway wit, and by extension the unique pizazz of big-town America. No one had put a medical dictionary to music and turned it into a declaration of psychosomatic desperation...