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...lands a rent-controlled--and roach-controlled--apartment. Joe then spends his time split unevenly between getting a job and fighting off his militant, singing infestation. Then the country-folk-meets-city-folk story quickly gets on an even simpler track when Joe sees his dream girl, Lily (Megan Ward). Golden-haired and slo-mo, she tends a garden niche and hopes to convert a local lot into Eden before her senator father (Robert Vaughn) makes it a prison Hell...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: MTV Flick Grows Old Quick | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...plot sort, as if the writers were fearful of departing from the formulaic awkwardness of courtship. O'Connell as Joe gamely spends his time undergoing the gags tossed at him throughout the movie, but usually sounds even more stilted than this one-trick-bug of a movie allows. Ward's Lily isn't given much to do but be pursued, compliment Joe and act nobly...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: MTV Flick Grows Old Quick | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...were alarmed when he was found, mere hours after being charged with drug possession, asleep in a stranger's house four blocks from his home. The homeowner, who discovered him when she put her children to bed, called the police, and Downey spent the night in a hospital-jail ward. He left the next day wearing slippers and a hat fashioned from a T shirt. By week's end, damage control was in full swing: Downey was in rehab and had a brand new publicist, and his lawyer issued a statement: "Mr. Downey has a problem. He's taking care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1996 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...year-old set refuses to give in to complaints its forebears accepted as the price of getting older. No one knows that better than the purveyors of products designed to ease or ward off cricks in the lower back. Consumers spent some $2.5 billion last year on such gadgets, and entrepreneurs expect business to get even better. Says Virginia Rogers, president of Relax the Back, the nation's largest back-products chain (55 stores, $30 million in anticipated sales this year): "When I got into this business eight years ago, I expected most of our customers to be senior citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUTTING BACKS ON TRACK | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...oldest protagonist in Disney history. A far cry from the beautiful Snow White--hated for her beauty by the jealous Queen--Quasi is reviled by the public for his misshapen form--and Disney spared no effort in making the guy ugly. He yearns to leave Notre Dame, where his ward, the evil Judge Frollo, keeps him isolated...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Disney's Got A Hunch You'll Come Back | 6/25/1996 | See Source »

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