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...Clark, former chairman of Silicon Graphics, and started a new company called Mosaic Communications. Clark and Andreessen lured all but one of the original Mosaic team to Silicon Valley for some intense programming sessions. Last week they unveiled the first result: called Mosaic NetScape, it is faster and slicker, and it allows users to pass sensitive information such as credit-card numbers safely over the network...
...adult audience without alienating the screaming teenyboppers who made them rich and famous. So what's an old New Kid to do? Change the band's name, for one thing, to NKOTB (not, obviously, a radical switcheroo) and hire a team of crack producers to give them a slicker, more grown-up sound. Thanks to studio pros like Teddy Riley % and Narada Michael Walden (who have separately produced records for Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey), Face the Music is the most polished album the Kids have ever made...
Jayme Koszyn's direction is consistently admirable. Unlike the actresses' accents, the script's rapid shifts in time and space never become disorienting. Clever use of props and dramatic changes in lighting create maximum mood changes in minimal time: The pace of the production could not be slicker. Sound effects are used to particular advantage. Although the only characters physically on stage are the four women themselves, the presences of the key men in their lives are made apparent through associated noises. Great-grandfather Jack is represented by a lawnmower, for example, with an efficacy which led me to wonder...
...endangered species in prime time, real-life law enforcers are multiplying. Cops, Fox's cinema verite look at police on their day-to-day rounds, is going strong in its fourth season; a week ago, it scored its highest ratings ever. ABC's American Detective provides a somewhat slicker (punched up with narration and dramatic music) glimpse of real cops in action. CBS's Top Cops and ABC's FBI: The Untold Stories use re-creations to celebrate the exploits of law enforcers, while CBS's Rescue 911 recounts heroic deeds by police, paramedics and other emergency personnel...
...half of the film not dedicated to exploiting the humor of a city-slicker lawyer and his out-of-work-hairdresser lover confronting country bumpkins involves a somewhat sappy coming-of-age theme. This is Vinny's chance to prove himself as an attorney, though this will be quite a challenge since he has heretofore limited his six weeks of practice to personal injury cases. Winning a murder acquittal might be more difficult than proving liability...