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...poignancy, into a couple of cop-movie stereotypes: the black dope lord and the villain's duped wife. Belushi mines quick charm out of his surly role. And Arnold, starched tongue in cheek, is a doll: G.I. Joe in Soviet mufti. He could beat the stuffing out of a toy Rambo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Arnold Wry RED HEAT | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...bill, however, was stripped of two stronger provisions: a ban on the toy-based children's shows, and a requirement that stations air at least one hour a day of educational fare for kids. The National Association of Broadcasters, while not fond of the measure, says it will not oppose it. Meanwhile, children's TV activists are claiming a victory -- barely. "As far as commercials are concerned, it says children are different from adults," notes Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television. "But any more changes and I would have called the bill a sellout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Kidvid Cuts | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...Besides an executive office, his rewards include an expensive toy-filled loft and a real live girl, or woman. Susan (Elizabeth Perkins), who has slept her way to the top, is seduced by something she has never before seen in a man: innocence. She invites herself back to his apartment, only to discover that he really is innocent. She can sleep over, he allows, but he gets to be on top -- the top bunk, that is. Eventually, however, in a subtle and charming scene, Josh learns how a man and a woman can share the same bed, and that adulthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Boy Lost and Found BIG | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...narrow chest and flatten that soft stomach. Even so, he will not give Arnold Schwarzenegger any competition. In fact he found himself gasping at the end of a tough scene in which he and Robert Loggia dance a duet on giant piano keys embedded in the floor of a toy store. "It was exhausting, like jumping rope for ten hours," recalls Hanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Eternal Cutup at Work | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...twelve- year- old boy wakes up one morning and finds he is the size and shape of Tom Hanks. His secret is that he remains a child inside, which enables him to score a success in the toy business, then with a fetching co- worker, who falls in love with a man who is a boy trying to act like a man. -- Eternal cutup Hanks, 31, emerges in the film as one of Hollywood' s top comic actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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