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Just as the alien invasion blockbuster Independence Day landed in movie theaters (with a staggering $11-million opening night), electricity mysteriously shut off in large parts of eight Western states--snarling traffic, knocking out phone and subway service, turning off air conditioners and bringing heat-drenched chaos to as many...
We still refer to Hammer by his last name alone, at his request. He thinks it makes him sound more sinister. In the late '60s, when Hammer and all of his friends liked to think of themselves as dangerous, you could make him glow by calling him the Hammer, as...
Blockbusters these days are elaborately crafted efforts in giving the public what Hollywood thinks it wants--more of the same. "Eraser," in this sense, succeeds admirably, featuring the sure-fire combination of a pleasantly sinister premise, guns galore and the endearing former weight-lifter whose punchy one-liners have touched...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the 'Filegate' snafu opened with a mini-bombshell when Anthony Marceca, the army staffer at the center of the controversy, invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify. "His apparent reason for pleading the Fifth was an article in the Friday Wall Street...
Such works remind you that the view of Homer that was current 20 years ago, and that this show corrects--that he was a realist in a simple and straightforward way--was wrong. It reckons without the deep strand of existential pessimism that runs in Homer's work and that...