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...Michael J. Fox in Life with Mikey: "I'm a show-biz agent, down on his pluck. I hope to make my fortune, and remake my life, with the help of a brash urchin who could be someone's beautiful daughter...
...himself in the mirror. Over the years he is molested by an uncle, tormented by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. At last a domestic upset ends with the mirror shattered, setting Tommy free of his autistic isolation. He flees home, becomes a tabloid curiosity and show-biz superstar. Then he returns to his family to celebrate normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment in popular culture, he now stands for rehabilitation and forgiveness, almost as if enrolled in some 12-step recovery program...
...vocal reach as she did at the 1991 Tony Awards (satirized by Forbidden Broadway, to the tune of I Could Have Danced All Night, as "I couldn't hit that note"). But two other numbers that would suit her quiet intensity -- the lovelorn Losing My Mind and the show-biz survivor's anthem I'm Still Here -- are left out, apparently because they appeared in Side by Side. Adding one in each act would make audiences happier without thwarting Andrews' gracious insistence on an ensemble show...
Oscar sure-thing actress, most touts would say. The English star of Howards End, the bride of all-everything show-biz phenom Kenneth Branagh, is an odds- on favorite to win Best Actress. And an Academy Award is Hollywood's certification of radiance. If the movie industry gives Thompson an Oscar next Monday evening, it will show it recognizes a potentially great movie lady in spring bloom...
...gurus, it made sense: Diller, with his programming expertise, joining forces with some of cable's leading techies, most notably John Malone, head of Tele-Communications, Inc., the country's largest cable operator. In one swoop, television's fuzzy dreams of an interactive future had acquired both immediacy and show-biz cachet. "I'm only surprised at how stupid the rest of us were not to see it," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Walt Disney Studios. Jokes CBS president Howard Stringer: "Already he's scared the Sears catalog out of business...