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...third significant Hollywood film, to stardom. Instead it was a bird of ill omen. A storm destroyed sets; a carpenter was nearly electrocuted. Then during Wednesday's filming, a gun that should have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I don't know how it got in ((the gun))," said The Crow's executive producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal. bullet...
...tepid reviews -- publicists are turning increasingly to a cadre of lesser lights, mostly from radio and TV, with seemingly boundless enthusiasms. Susan Granger, who reviews for Connecticut's WICC radio and is now syndicated on about 100 stations, has lured moviegoers with passionate quotes for everything from Consenting Adults ("spine-tingling, disturbing, sexy, seductive!") to Forever Young ("a heart grabber that lifts the spirit"). Joanna Langfield, whose radio feature The Movie Minute is carried on 75 stations, is not far behind her in fervor and omnipresence...
...actually all of them mixed together. Now in production at Boston's Lyric Stage, the late Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep: a Penny Dreadful is a sendup of every Gothic novel, 30s horror film, and classic romance to have ever sent thrills and chills down your spine...
SINCE THE NIGHT HE WAS SHOT IN THE back, Gary has come to know a great many doctors. The surgeons could not get all the pieces of the bullet out of his spine. The neurologists could not reverse the paralysis, which locked his body in place from the neck down. The pain specialists, chiropractors and acupuncturists could not relieve the agony. If you were to go into the intensive-care unit and take the sickest patient you could find who was dying, that was my condition. Anything that could go wrong did. I was in constant pain most...
...MIGHT NOT HAVE LURED MANY VIEWERS FROM All My Children. But when it came to furtive subplots, greed, jealousy and spine-chilling intimations of impending disaster, Bill Clinton's televised 19-hour economic talkathon was right up there with daytime's most overwrought soap fare...