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...their regenerative powers, they may find ways to synthesize these substances or to develop cell cultures that produce them in the lab. Unlocking these secrets "is the best hope we have for those who have lost brain cells because of a stroke, an injury or a degenerative disease," says Vernon Mark, director of neurosurgery at Boston City Hospital. "Right now," he adds, "it's the only game in town...
...Class, two trains to Harvard Square meet in the way station of Vernon Academy, an Illinois boys' prep school. The express arrives in the form of Square "Skip" Ellsworth Burroughs IV (Rob Lowe), an academy lifer who, well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local chugs in and Skip finds himself rooming with Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy), a bright it somewhat unworldly scholarship student First day out, the preppie picks on the nerd and Class seems to be shaping up into a celluloid bildungstoman...
...Jonathan is so captivating that you never wonder why she's lavishing it on a 19-year-old) the adult characters are largely unconvincing stereotypes, but the academy inmates are almost all outstanding. Lowe, fresh off the set of The Outsiders, and film-newcomer McCarthy work well as Vernon's dynamic duo, constructing a close roommate-friendship that is first destroyed, then rebuilt in the wake of Jonathan's affair. And John Cusak steals more than one scene as Roscoe, the school's butter-wouldn't-melt-in-your-month darling who feeds inside information to "the gang...
...overall. Perhaps its greatest flaw is that it tries too hard to be loved--and while it does escape looking canned there are a few too many tweed jackets and Shetland sweaters. One might wonder if there ever was, or will be, a prep school quite so preppie as Vernon Academy...
...solid middle-class values. Put it another way: he's too vain to destroy himself." He does not smoke, drink or use drugs, and even after he hit it big on SNL, he continued to live in his suburban home with his mother, stepfather and half brother Vernon Jr., 16. "Being black has never been a hindrance to me," Murphy says. "I've been called 'nigger' only once in my life. There's very little anger in my humor." Pryor's movie characters show the resentment and vulnerability of the underdog; Eddie, in front...