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...Jurassic Park, Hollywood apparently has a dinosaur-size hit. Now the town thinks it smells a dog. Last Action Hero, the Arnold Schwarzenegger adventure opening this week, has spurred doomsday rumors because of its ballistic budget (estimates run up to $120 million), a reputedly disastrous sneak preview last month, and the subsequent three-day shooting of a new sequence...
Columbia Pictures, anxious about its huge investment, quickly sent in the spin doctors. The studio did get "slightly panicked" at the preview, says co-writer David Arnott. "Clearly the movie was too long, and the jokes needed timing tweaks. But a lot of people liked it." The new sequence was just "Arnold never giving up on anything," says director John McTiernan. "He guilted us all into shooting it." Now he has to hope that, oh, 40 million Americans will be guiled or guilted into seeing...
...concentrate behemoths for profit. He hatches the dinosaurs on a Central American island and builds a theme park around them. Before the scheduled opening, a few guests -- including craggy paleontologist Alan Grant, lissome paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and Hammond's two young grandchildren -- come to Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel's first half is a controlled tram trip through this high-tech zoo, the second half a terror- filled obstacle course strewn with dinosaurs amuck: swooping pterodactyls, dilophosaurs that spit venom, a famished tyrannosaurus and a Panzer division of velociraptors, the meanest...
...seems to be the season for savvy playwrights to slip. Neil Simon's musical adaptation of his The Goodbye Girl left out the good parts, David Hwang's Face Value closed in preview, and now Lanford Wilson (Talley's Folly, Burn This) has opened REDWOOD CURTAIN, a would-be poetic musing on ecology, Vietnam, capitalism and multicultural heritage. If you think something is deeply sick in the national soul, then the play, for all its philosophical incoherence and melodrama (about a Vietnamese immigrant seeking her ex-G.I. father), may speak to you. If you live in the world most...
Topping off all these assets is a startling capacity to commit herself to the fullest. Stevenson had to skip the show's final preview at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum after being rushed to a doctor with back spasms that rendered her unable to stand up. Yet on opening night, she made her first exit the way she always had, unhesitatingly hurtling herself across the stage, up a flight of stairs and almost colliding with a wall. Pain be damned, the play's the thing...