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...shouted millions of electrified C-SPAN viewers -- that Paula Jones' lawyers were toying with the question of whether or not to file a sexual- harassment suit against the President. The latter story line was echoed in the recent two-hour season finale of Melrose Place, a currently hot nighttime soap that was floundering until old pro Heather Locklear -- a sort of Lloyd Cutler with dark roots -- was brought in to get the show on track...
...create the ambiance and effects that the animators once tossed off with a few squiggles of their pencils, The Flintstones doesn't feel overcalculated, over-produced or overthought. Nor, however, is it aimed solely at "the young and the thumbless" (to borrow the name of Bedrock's favorite soap opera). Once again, prehistory has been good to the film's producer, billed here as Steven Spielrock...
...White House has yet to produce convincing "evidence" that Clinton has been "assaulted" more than any previous President when dubious behavior surfaces. But Clinton can take some comfort that he is not alone in suddenly realizing he is high and visible, and his flaws are every night's soap. Remember Jerry Ford the Klutz? And Jimmy Carter's harsh season of invective as the passionless, peanut President...
...Louise Parker) at Harvard; they have problems after graduation because they want to pursue their won careers. Oh, and they're artsy: he writes plays; she takes pictures. They both have so much artistic fervor, in fact, that Jake disses Joanne to work with a slimy producer and a soap-opera star in New York, while Joanne disses Jake to chase a wheeler-dealer gallery owner around the country in his private...
...role of Jake's mother's quirky side-kick, as well as popping up successively as a hard-hat construction worker, a marching band conductor on an interstate, and the mask of comedy in the stone-work of an off-Broadway theater. Kathleen Turner appears as a over-sexed soap-opera star who, in spite of her potentially exciting role as temptress, never makes her presence felt. Timothy Dalton is, however, somewhat elegant in his suave portrayal of the wheeler-dealer gallery owner, though his supposedly strong feelings for Joanne have seem tacked...