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...starring in it or they want to be with the woman. More often they want to be the guy. They want to be Kevin Costner. They think that everybody does--and that therefore the film's going to make money." Result: Hudson Hawk, Last Action Hero, Assassins, Waterworld...
...selling point. Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi, a publishing company whose executives were impressed enough to sink $20 million into the enterprise. Since then, George has been stirring the same sort of buzz among journalists that Waterworld generated in Hollywood: a golden boy--maybe not the brightest fellow in town--seemed to be in way over his head on a slightly nutty project, and a delicious disaster was probably in the offing...
Well, George's first issue was introduced at a packed press conference last Thursday (copies will hit newsstands Sept. 26), and the Waterworld parallel holds. George, it turns out, is pretty decent, by turns knowing and witty. But the question remains: Can a glossy, expensive-looking magazine devoted to profiling the likes of former Democratic National Committee chair David Wilhelm justify the big investment and an initial press run of 500,000 (an optimistic figure that would give George a circulation roughly equal to Details...
...Celtic-twilight-tinged music for Braveheart, along with his otherworldly harmonies for Apollo 13; Elliot Goldenthal's dashing romp through Batman Forever; Michael Kamen's lounge-lizard gloss on the great Latin lover Don Juan de Marco; and James Newton Howard's swashbuckling music for the otherwise waterlogged epic Waterworld. Together with the idiosyncratic Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure) and the rhapsodic Trevor Jones (The Last of the Mohicans, Cliffhanger), not to mention such still active veterans as Jerry Goldsmith (Basic Instinct), Ennio Morricone (Wolf) and, foremost among them, John Williams, whose 1977 score for Star Wars...
Like politicians, movie critics should have limited terms. Over time they become jaded, stupid and self-serving. Remember, film critics actually liked that piece of sewage Pulp Fiction. I saw the movie Waterworld [SHOW BUSINESS, July 31], and it was great fun! The hero was intelligent, the characters interesting and the special effects dazzling. There was no filthy language and no overt sex, and good triumphed over evil. To all intelligent people, I say ignore Siskel and Ebert and their ilk, including TIME's reviewers. If you like to leave a theater smiling, I can highly recommend seeing Waterworld. LANORE...