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THREE MEN AND A LITTLE LADY. The bachelor trio (Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson) of the 1987 box-office champ Three Men and a Baby are now in charge of a six-year-old. The jokes and plot lines are way older, and everyone plays breathlessly cute. Pablum for the masses: it'll make zillions...
...Selleck, lounging on the set of his movie An Innocent Man, talks about why he seeks diversity in his film roles. Loretta Swit fights back tears as she receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. L.A. Law's Susan Ruttan reminisces about her days as a secretary. The fluffy show-biz features may be numbingly familiar to anyone who has ever watched Entertainment Tonight or read PEOPLE magazine. But this batch has been packaged in a way that could be groundbreaking. They are part of Persona, the most ambitious new entry in a small but blooming field...
Moviegoers love babies, of course. A lame comedy like 3 Men and a Baby earned $168 million by offering little more than Tom Selleck diapering a child. The talking baby is another familiar Hollywood tradition; street-smart infants narrated the film The First Time (1952) and a 1960 sitcom called Happy. Spermatozoa have schmoozed (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex), and in this year's Me and Him even a penis got chatty...
When the plot turns and the characters gain control of their own justice, An Innocent Man improves. Selleck becomes likeable; his acting gains gusto. Instead of mumbling his poorly written lines, he wields Magnum P.I. inflections. And he infuses emotion into a simple comment about fighting. "It scares me," he says, "but I can handle...
...emphasis of tangential storylines and development of Abraham's role would have improved the movie's plot. Although the movie's ambitions overtake its accomplishments, die-hard Tom Selleck fans will like his performance, and F. Murray Abraham does not disappoint...