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...immediate successes. He bought up a string of kids' movies from the '50s, featuring Bomba, the Jungle Boy. He edited them down to an hour each, and added a dramatic opening of mysterious jungle drums. The kids loved them. He also bought old adventure films, such as Robin Hood and Tom Sawyer. Renaming them Family Classics, he dared to run them on Friday nights, usually the province of action and comedy. He had another smash, and Family Classics outdrew even Bob Hope. WON is still running the series...
...reaches the apartment of her male friend Robin (Craig Russell), and Robin isn't so sure. Liza (Hollis McLaren) hears bells not audible to most people and battles periodically with an evil spirit "from the other place," called the Bonecrusher. Wouldn't she be better off with the nasty shrinks and their mind-killing shock treatments? Certainly not. After all, she has sympathetic friends like Martin (Allan Moyle), a local crazy; and the doctors, as one of Robin's friends says, "gotta spoil all the special people." So Liza moves...
...Robin is rather special himself. He is a cheerful, buttery fellow who is a hairdresser and, sure enough, a homosexual. He has his own problem: Should he come all the way out of the closet and parade at his favorite gay bar as Tallulah? Or Carol Channing? Or (sigh) Bette Davis? He is a dumpy man trying absurdly and wistfully to turn himself into a dumpy woman. Will thousands sneer...
Glittery-eyed fans of Anita Bryant may be excused at this point, but this very odd couple - the frail female nut and the overweight drag queen - really are lovable in their devotion to each other. As Robin blissfully makes up, Liza happily makes out - in the next room, with a cab driver. Soon Robin is over flowing onstage before an audience of cheering leather boys, and Liza is pregnant. Wretched excess continues as Robin heads for New York City to do his impersonations on the Great Gay Way. Liza, of course, is in labor. He is a smash...
Performing with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible...