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...only hope they are more interesting than the problems we do know about. Jane and Michael (Josie Bissett and Thomas Calabro) are a young married couple having troubles because he works such long hours at the hospital. Rhonda is a sassy, streetwise aerobics instructor (Vanessa Williams, reprising TV's most overworked black stereotype) who can't find dates for Saturday night. Alison (Courtney Thorne-Smith) is a stupendously naive receptionist who reluctantly takes in a male roommate, then is shocked to find that he wants to bring girls back to the apartment and share the peanut butter...
...into movies. But kids have a bad habit of growing up. Anyone tuning in after a few years' absence to this week's final episode of The Cosby Show may get a shock. Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), a junior-high student when the series began, is graduating from college. Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), once a pudgy preteen, is in college too, and has weathered a broken engagement. Cute little Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) has ceded the spotlight to a passel of even cuter, littler kids: Olivia, 6, stepdaughter of No. 2 daughter Denise (who is married but doesn't appear...
Taussig easily claims the title of most theatrically fluent and effective performer for her portrayal of everything from a fragile changeling in Eden to a violent Cain. Michael Wertheim is effective as the insecure Adam, and Walling smoothly transforms the self-assured Eve into a dependent and nurturing mother. Vanessa Parise deserves praise for her convincing portrayal of the Snake with the draconian character which includes Eve to succumb to temptation...
Irresistible to Nickelodeon, anyway. After all three broadcast networks and Fox gave aggressive thumbs-down, Vanessa Coffey, the cable network's V.P. of animation, saw something "uniquely bizarre" in Ren and Stimpy and helped develop scripts and concepts. "At all costs, we wanted to change the face of animation," she recalls. Actually, the price tag was about $300,000 a show. Kricfalusi voiced Ren as a deranged Peter Lorre; ex-standup comedian Billy West enacted Stimpy in a tone vaguely reminiscent of Larry, a founding Stooge...
HOWARDS END. E.M. Forster's novel of property and prejudice in Edwardian England is voluptuously rendered by director James Ivory and handsomely peopled by Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins. See it to savor the glory that England once was -- and that movies, all too rarely...