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...MOVIE version of a classic--Swann in Love, Under the Volcano, The Europeans--that is both entertaining and intelligent about as likely a find as Superman in Mem Hall. James Ivory's Bostonians will do just that and it is well worth seeing...
Reeve, who is fast on his way to becoming the all-American hero, recalls just about all the American screen-gods of the past--from ex-Superman to heir of the Rhett Butler tradition of Southern seduction. He also knows...
What he does is so simple, and how he does it so complicated, that Carl Lewis is a basic mystery. How fast he runs, how far he jumps, may serve to establish the precise lengths to which men can go. Gentler than a superman, more delicate than the common perception of a strong man, Lewis is physically the most advanced human being in the world, and about to become the most famous global sports figure since Muhammad...
...spots on Good Morning America. Television's appetite for visual gags forces her to be a comic entertainer, not the wise-guy satirist of the newspaper column. She has a natural talent for mugging, but when she tries, typically, to cope with an eccentric dentist who wears a Superman suit, or to record a hit country tune in Nashville, or to interview an underwater hockey team, the jokes sometimes seem forced. Even on TV, though, the zingers can zing: having decided, unaccountably, to interview a pig, she starts off, "Hi, I think I used to date your brother...
...muscle-bound relative away on an intergalactic mission, Kara, played by Newcomer Helen Slater, 20, is kept busy battling megabaddies like the evil witch Selena, portrayed by Faye Dunaway, 43. To prepare for her flying scenes, Slater talked with Christopher Reeve, who starred as the airborne hero in Superman I to III. Says Slater: "Once you get past that feeling of being helplessly trapped in a harness and suspended by wires, you can enjoy swooshing around 180 feet above the ground...