Word: phil
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DIRECTOR: PHIL ALDEN ROBINSON...
...WRITERS: PHIL ALDEN ROBINSON, LAWRENCE LASKER AND WALTER F. PARKES...
...know that this kind of premise usually sets up movies for which audiences ought to be issued batting helmets -- nothing but high hard ones whizzing at us. But writer and director Phil Alden Robinson, the auteur of every grownup American boy's sentimental favorite, Field of Dreams, is pitching smart in his latest start: knucklers and sliders, and maybe the occasional spitter. The result is sweet bemusement...
...early '60s, between Elvis and the Beatles, two corporate names ruled rock 'n' roll: Spector and Scepter. Phil Spector's over-the-Top-40 sound has often been memorialized; now THE SCEPTER RECORDS STORY is related in a 65-song set on three CDs. Owned by Florence Greenberg, a New Jersey mom, the diskery made its rep with girl groups (the Shirelles) and treble rousers (the Isley Brothers, the Kingsmen). It then officiated at the marriage of gospel and pop, with Dionne Warwick selling peerless Burt Bacharach ballads. The set includes many savory hits and some obscure gems: Bacharach...
...Quayle unqualified. And a slew of other presidential aspirants are also positioning themselves to run in 1996. Among them: chief of staff James Baker, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, Massachusetts Governor William Weld and William Bennett, former commander of the war on drugs. And Texas Senator Phil Gramm, another 1996 hopeful, hurt himself with a keynote address that delegates judged too long and snoozy. Then again, that was the rap on the 1988 keynote speech of the Democrat who now leads George Bush in the polls...