Word: reptilian
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...hatchlings of some species exhibit survival strategies that might seem beyond their tiny reptilian brains. Young Eastern hog-nosed snakes, for example, feign death if they sense a threat. Are they consciously aware of danger? Or, as Greene puts it, "Does a mere serpent have reflections and intentions?" To learn more about snake behavior, Greene and his colleagues are going to plant tiny radio beepers inside newborn rattlesnakes. Says he: "Radio telemetry allows us to wonder more accurately what it's like to be a snake...
Pearce and Crowe turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. When the two come to blows, we get the momentarily epic, clash-of-the-titans feel that gives the movie transcendence. Cromwell's Smith is reptilian and evil, his zingers imbued with a wry voice of experience ("Don't now try being good, lad. You haven't the practice.") The over-billed Kevin Spacey does his usual slick act, but well. Kim Basinger, as a call girl supposed to resemble Veronica Lake, holds her own although...
...wads, empty juice boxes and broken plastic toys from McDonald's Happy Meals. Do they go with the stolid minivan or the racy sport-ute? They consult consumer guides. They compare prices. They make, if they have the stomach for it, a few desultory visits to a variety of reptilian car salesmen. And they gather promotional brochures...
...Vaseline blob" beneath Luke Skywalker's land speeder.) Computer-generated creatures (Rontos and Jawas and such) were added to the backgrounds of previously static scenes. Extra spaceships with keener moves now flesh out some of the climactic battle scenes. A scene has been restored between Han Solo and the reptilian loan shark Jabba the Hutt that was discarded when Lucas couldn't figure out a satisfactory way to concoct Jabba (he finally appeared as a mammoth rubbery puppet in Return of the Jedi; he's computer generated here). "One thing leads to another," says Lucas. "You paint part...
DIED. RENE LACOSTE, 92, French 1920s tennis champion and founder of the sportswear firm that bears his name; in St.-Jean-de-Luz, France. Called "le crocodile" for his tenacity on the court, he turned the reptilian nickname into a yuppie icon...