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This is all catnip to Terry Gilliam, deviser of the Monty Python animations and co-director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. On his own he directed one commercial hit (Time Bandits) and one cult smash (Brazil). Critics, this one included, went crazy for Brazil; but not many citizens felt at home amid all the astringent whimsy. And the director's next phantasmagoria, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, was a $50 million flop...
Midway through the first half, Harvard nearly scored when junior Jason Luzak got a breakaway opportunity. But his smash was deflected off the chest of diving Butler goalie David McVay, and the follow-up shot trickled wide right...
...accent, and lines form outside the local plex that are longer than the queue of creditors at an S&L. Star quality: people want to watch him on the big screen. Star power: tens of millions of people will pay for the privilege. And keep on paying. His western smash, Dances with Wolves, has been filling theaters for nine months now. Last week more folks went to see it than Return to the Blue Lagoon, which was all of two weeks...
...hard to remember any time since the mid-'70s when there has been such a sudden flowering of reflective songwriting. Back then, the smash success of the Eagles, with their ingratiating harmonies and their canny outlaw lyrics, kicked open the doors for a whole generation of songwriters, from Jackson Browne to Warren Zevon and Karla Bonoff. Whether any 1990s group will crash the charts in such big-time fashion is not yet known. But they are already making a joyful noise, a reworking and reinvention of what the Irish songwriter Paul Brady, 44, calls "blue-eyed American rock 'n' roll...
...immediate question might be, Why bother? This summer's smash, with $120 million in its first three weeks, is the mucho macho Terminator 2: Judgment Day. But in Hollywood, Armageddon comes every summer. Last year five burly adventures -- Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, Days of Thunder and Another 48 HRS. -- grossed a robust, cumulative half billion. And Batman, good man vs. evil man, was the big warm-weather hit of 1989. Saving the world is man's work, of course. (Blowing it up is too, but that just proves how powerful guys are.) It's men who face...