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...same time, Butler said he doesn't want to put the course, which examines ecological and environmental policy taught by a scientist, into the Applied Chemistry Department, where it might enjoy more popularity. He said he fears such a move would make the subject matter inaccessible to many students and said he expects to remain in Gen Ed despite sagging enrollment...
...PAPER, in some frenzied script development office, Creator could have been a good film--at least a bearable one. The idea of an eccentric scientist trying to clone his long dead wife bounces like a solid premise for a light comedy. Similarly, the tension in the film between God as reasonable and Reason as god might have been engaging, like the crunch of cold modern science and warm timelessly-fashioned love. And the acting of Peter O'Toole, who worked similar magic in The Stunt Man, should have been able to sustain the tension between the comic and philosophical elements...
...Creator is definitely a movie not meant to be. For the first ten minutes, the movie accurately portrays the strange environs of scientific research, and Peter O'Toole is marvelous as a mildly comic, Einstein-like scientist. David Ogden Stiers of MASH fame sounds good without his aristocratic air as O'Toole's ruthless rival. But then the Jeremy Leven screenplay begins its long plummet in quality of dialogue, and the less dazzling supporting cast intrudes...
Meanwhile, perched several stories above them all, on a planet of his own invention, the Scientist (Michael Emil) fumbles among stacks of yellowing papers that contain the secrets of his final project--a theory unifying the fields of nature...
Enter the Senator (Tony Curtis), who badgers the scientist about attending a Congressional hearing. Curtis plays his role to the hilt and turns in an energetic performance in his most substantial part in years. Nevertheless, the part is all wrong, torpedoed by amateur psycho-speculation about the Commie basher's alleged impotency...