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...BOTTOM LINE: Take bits from It's a Wonderful Life, All of Me, Topper and Ghost. Presto -- a bad popular movie...
After perennial chart topper Ec 10, five of this spring's other nine most popular classes are either science-oriented Cores or pre-med requirements...
...brush with death is actually a reincarnation of a theme that Hollywood revisits from time to time. The 1978 hit Heaven Can Wait was a remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan. In the '50s, Topper and the Kerbys explored the hereafter on TV. More recently, Field of Dreams cloaked the metaphysical in a baseball motif. In fact, the netherworld as a dramatic device is as old as theater. Anthony Minghella, writer and director of Truly, Madly, Deeply, a British variation of carpe diem, hails the technique as an inventive way to deal with loss and pain: "However...
...come to fancy himself a killer, and that is the role he tries to play here: a psychopathic hit man. He is not a good enough actor for this particular assignment, nor has he the skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny bit for his pal Arsenio Hall, playing a man on a murderous crying jag. But mostly Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie...
Hold the Chablis. The belated telephone call may have been the topper, but Dukakis has failed to connect with Jesse Jackson on more mundane matters. At a dinner on July 4, the Governor served poached salmon and California Chablis. Jackson prefers his fish fried and lemonade to drink...