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...night is her "keen fashion sense." Imagine a good, cute actress named Kristy Swanson as BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and a piquantly mixed cast that includes Luke Perry and Donald Sutherland. By now, you are perhaps dreaming that this summer's most pressing need -- for a funny sleeper -- has been fulfilled. Wrong. Or, as Buffy says, "Does the word duh mean anything to you?" It does to director Fran Rubel Kuzui, whose frenzied mistrust of her material is almost total. Somebody should have given her a garlic necklace -- or a Miltown -- and told her to chill...
...Spelling may be on to something. Network drama has been in a slump of late; the audience for realistic, multilayered fare (I'll Fly Away, Civil Wars) seems to be shrinking. The sleeper hit of the summer is ABC's Jack's Place, set in a fancy big-city restaurant run by Hal Linden. Though not a Spelling production, it adheres to the classic Love Boat formula: two or three guest stars each week glide through cute, twisty tales of love lost and found. (Last week Robert Guillaume played a Broadway producer upset at a bad review written...
...didn't stop with the lack of privacy. By college standards, Hurlbut was sort of a sleeper when it came to parties. There were a few--especially in the six-person suites on the opposite side of the building--but for the most part, things stayed pretty quiet. Lee couldn't have been happier; taking his advice, we agreed to leave the social scene to Pennypacker. it was a PG-rated kind of place...
Since then, various attempts have been made to revive him, but none have really taken hold. The most recent, which may restore Canova to some popularity, is the sleeper of Venice's summer art season: a show of 152 drawings, clay models, plasters and finished marble carvings, borrowed from as far afield as St. Petersburg, handsomely installed in the period rooms of the Museo Correr on Piazza San Marco. It is 20 years since such a group of Canovas has been assembled in public...
Summer films: sequels, stars -- and maybe a sleeper smash; Marlene Dietrich: an appreciation of mystery undimmed...