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...Would she accompany him to his office for some fast dictation? She would not. Tess may chafe at pushing 30, at fetching coffee for dimmer minds with smoother styles, but she will not be used. And now she has a plan. Her new boss is chic Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), who has it all and wants more. Katharine can flirt suavely with clients -- "I'll buy you a drink. Bottle of Cristal? Two straws?" -- and steal ideas from brainy losers like Tess. Well, if Tess can't beat Katharine, she will become her. While Katharine recovers from a ski injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

DISASTER AT SILO 7 (ABC, Nov. 27, 9 p.m. EST). A mishap at a U.S missile base threatens the Texas countryside with nuclear nightmare; Michael O'Keefe and Dennis Weaver race to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 28, 1988 | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...virtue of Anna Hamilton Phelan's script, Michael Apted's direction and Sigourney Weaver's strong, stark performance that they resist sentimentalizing Fossey. The filmmakers seem content with the notion that saintliness is a form of lunacy. For their lack of conventional biopic piety, they deserve respectful gratitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fogged In GORILLAS IN THE MIST | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Clint Eastwood' s Bird finds the right blue notes for jazzman Charlie Parker. -- Sigourney Weaver illuminates Gorillas in the Mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page October 3, 1988 | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...baseball's greatest hitters, became a victim of the conspiracy, since he couldn't read or write. Sweeney, whose swing could rival that of some real-life baseball players, brilliantly portrays Jackson as a simple man who knows only one thing: how to hit a baseball. Buck Weaver also represents this innocence, and Cusack does an exceptional job of playing this typical "man against the world" character...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Yes, It's So, Joe | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

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