Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal does hold, most industry analysts see it as a smart move toward the future by CBS, a conservative outfit with a maturing lineup of shows in that old fogey of the video market, network television. "Diller will create synergy," says Bishop Cheen, a Kagan analyst, "by wearing three hats. Number one, the network hat, and there's he's a Hall of Famer. Two, the programming hat: he will create good and cheap programming. And third, merchandiser -- a hat that has never been worn at CBS with any great authority. He'll merge two favorite American pastimes: shopping...
...fact, it may turn out to be one of the better movies of the summer. It's got style, it's got wit, it's got danger and it's got a good-looking blonde who's pretty damn smart...
...listen not only because Elton John's music and Tim Rice's lyrics are so enjoyable and smart, but because I am reminded of the best movie I have seen in a long time. I want to go see it again as soon as possible...
...more conventional movie figures who fare best in this lugubrious context. Dennis Quaid is Doc Holliday, the tubercular gunman-gambler, who gallantly and sardonically confronts his mortality, and Joanna Going plays Josie, the smart, spunky romantic who is Earp's last great passion. These are familiar, forthright characters, and the actors energize the film by playing them with headlong confidence...
...certainly one of the more dramatic. The movie begins with Mufasa, king of the plains (NOT the jungle--the Disney people are too smart to fall for cliches here) presenting his small cub, Simba, to his assorted subjects. Elephants trumpet. The soundtrack rises in pitch. And then, the scene suddenly disappears from the screen, abruptly replaced with "THE LION KING"--blood-red, no less (more on that later...