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...They rush off to the Passaic library to shoot the ectoplasm scenes, crack a couple of eggs for the special effects and borrow a young woman from the local dry cleaner's (Melonie Diaz) for the Sigourney Weaver role. (Later, the real Weaver shows up too, but not as herself.) The ruse is successful, Miss Falewicz likes their homemade version of Ghostbusters; and soon everyone in town is clamoring for the guys' rickety remakes of favorite movies, including The Lion King, Rush Hour 2, RoboCop, Boyz N The Hood, Driving Miss Daisy (with Black in the Jessica Tandy role), King...
...first portion of the movie, which takes place in Manhattan, focuses on Truman and his high-society friends—Hope Davis (“The Matador”), Sigourney Weaver, and even Gwyneth Paltrow as a lounge singer. McGrath takes us deep within Capote’s upper-class social environment through his rendering of at-once exuberant and breathtaking scenery...
...very first page of Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie's new novel, the reader has a horrible presentiment that a literary disaster is in the making. Rushdie is trying to describe a woman speaking in her sleep: she is "like Sigourney Weaver channeling a demon in Ghostbusters." This is the kind of bathos?the desperation to prove his hipness by making asinine references to pop culture?that helped sink Rushdie's last novel, Fury, generally acknowledged to be the worst he has written. After a first-page blunder like this, it requires a leap of faith simply to turn...
...whole Holy Grail debacle in Alexandretta. Constantine’s ride, the Angel City cab, even uses the transportation-name-as-witty-commentary trick of A Streetcar Named Desire, or more recently, The Royal Tenenbaums’ Gypsy Cabs. Then the exorcism—wait, was that Sigourney Weaver from Ghostbusters lying possessed on the bed? No, just some other actress who has captured that grotesque, demonic, yet unsettlingly sexual demeanor that adds a little extra pizzazz to any exorcism scene. It’s all wholesale theft, of course, but then imitation is said...
...Talking Street (talkingstreet.com), which focuses on the country's major East Coast cities, you download a map of a tour online then dial in at indicated locations to hear historical stories and the scoop on local haunts from celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour costs $5.95. Other notable offerings: the National Park Service's Revolutionary War tour at Minute Man National Historic Park in Concord, Massachusetts, for $5.99, tel: (1-978) 369 6993; and the Cell Phone...