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Like the films to which it pays elaborate homage -- Gertie the Dinosaur, King Kong (and its Universal theme-park spin-off, Kongfrontation), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Godzilla, Bringing Up Baby -- this one sometimes creaks when it's not playing with the beasties. For the first half-hour -- the preshow before the thrill ride -- you are advised to bide your time. Screenwriter David Koepp's subplot, in which a paleontologist (Sam Neill) is force-fed lessons in fatherhood by his paleobotanist girlfriend (Laura Dern), is laid on with a trowel. And the plot occasionally beggars belief. If you were...
...when Dana Gioia published the title essay to his collection Can Poetry Matter? in the Atlantic Monthly, he caused nothing short of a literary scandal. The Atlantic received more mail than it had in years. Publications as far flung as the Times Literary Supplement and USA Today printed spin-off discussions. Even international radio stations picked up the story. All this over an evaluation of contemporary verse...
...Moody's Investors Service, a top Wall Street investment-rating agency, last week lowered the credit rating of Sears, Roebuck because of losses at its Allstate Insurance unit. The action took place just before Sears announced its decision to sell off 20% of the big insurance company in a spin-off of the retailer's financial units. Prudential Insurance, which injected $900 million in capital into its property-casualty division after it was hit with $1.2 billion in Andrew-related claims, was placed on review by both Moody's and Standard & Poor's. E. Michael Caulfield, president of Prudential Property...
...Afire (courtesy of Designing Women and Evening Shade creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) and Love and War (the latest from English herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new bridgehead for the Tiffany Network...
Melrose Place is ostensibly a spin-off of Beverly Hills 90210, but the link is tenuous. The new show is set in a trendy Los Angeles apartment complex, where residents include Jake Hanson (Grant Show), a hunky construction worker seen in a few 90210 episodes this season. He is still being pursued by one of the 90210 nymphets but is trying to brush her off. "Kelly," he says ominously, "I have problems that you don't even know about...