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...deft, sexy Gallagher, Close serves the script honorably rather than meeting it eye to eye. Nonetheless, The Real Thing is likely to make a star too of Close (who played Sarah in The Big Chill). Even in previews, Close relates, she and Irons were getting fan mail - with a twist: "One fan said she'd seen and loved us in everything we'd done. The envelope was addressed to Mr. Glenn Close and Ms. Jeremy Irons...
Faerie Tale Theatre (Showtime). These slightly fractured but never completely Grimm tales, produced by Actress Shelley Duvall, give a hip, witty twist and dreamy visual style to storybook classics...
...Times of London, one of the world's most eminent newspapers. But he did not leave voluntarily. He was shoved out by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian press baron who had bought the Times and its sister publication the Sunday Times in 1981. And, in a nice twist, it was Murdoch who had hired Evans in the first place, luring him away from the editorship of the Sunday Times, a post he had held for 14 years...
They are rude and accusatory, cynical and almost unpatriotic. They twist facts to suit their not-so-hidden liberal agenda. They meddle in politics, harass business, invade people's privacy, and then walk off without regard to the pain and chaos they leave behind. They are arrogant and self-righteous, brushing aside most criticism as the uninformed carping of cranks and ideologues. To top it off, they claim that their behavior is sanctioned, indeed sanctified, by the U.S. Constitution...
...overruled on appeal. Scarface is no fouler of mouth than Richard Pryor on a good day, and less graphic than the last three dozen splatter movies. It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist of treason. The only X this movie deserves is the one in explosive. -By Richard Corliss