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...family fare. Well, yes and no. That is to say, you could safely bundle the brood off to Into the West and no harm would come to them. But a grownup could sneak off to it all alone and have an extremely rewarding evening. For stallion and friends are Irish, meaning that an aura of Celtic mysticism surrounds the horse and a rebellious, wandering spirit moves in eight-year-old Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and 12-year-old Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy...
People of all ages are getting the moviegoing habit this summer. Over Memorial Day weekend, Sylvester Stallone went sky-high with Cliffhanger, but that was just a sneak preview of the sweltering summer box office. In June, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, which will soon become the second highest- grossing film in history (after Spielberg's E.T.), got everybody into the theaters. Viewers liked what they saw and kept coming back. Sleepless in Seattle enticed the cooing couples. The Firm, In the Line of Fire and Rising Sun proved there was a huge July audience for old-fashioned suspense films...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption post the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Heart and Souls could itself be a low sort of triumph. At a sneak preview the audience cheered when one spirit got his star-spangled wish, and they applauded at the end. The house was so streaked with humid tears it nearly had to be hosed down. But this movie is a bad cry, for calculation steams off it like skunk musk. It is packed with stale "sure-fire" routines, like the rendition of a rock-'n'-roll oldie (here Walk like a Man) and a funny car crash (which comes a reel or two after the fatal crash -- yikes...
...seemed natural for me to be entertaining General Marshall or General Eisenhower," she says. Among the visitors was Averell Harriman, then Franklin Roosevelt's special envoy, who was dining with the Churchills at Chequers one night when a valet turned on a radio to provide reports of Japan's sneak attack of Pearl Harbor. Pamela later said Harriman was "the most handsome man I had ever met." He was, however, married...