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...fill those five slots for the Best Actress Oscar nominations. So come December, when the Oscar-qualification deadline looms, the women's club is allowed in. This month will see movies starring such divas as Susan Sarandon % (in two films), Jessica Tandy (two), Geena Davis, Sigourney Weaver, Anjelica Huston, Winona Ryder and Jennifer Jason Leigh...
...Idioglossia, it illustrates the familiar movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted, who has directed vigorous woodland women before (Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist), focuses on the weird wonder of Foster. Of course her portrayal is a stunt; of course the viewer is aware of the distance between the actress and her role. Yet she undercuts cliche with a fearless, fierce, beautifully attuned performance...
...than 150 challenges to their ingenuity, ranging from launching a toy rocket to shooting a basketball through a hoop. To send up a rocket, a child must find a way to light the fuse. One possibility: using a magnifying glass to focus light rays. Budding authors can use Storybook Weaver, from Minnesota Educational Computing Corp., to create adventure tales. After clicking their cursor on a haunted house or other exotic setting, children fill it with colorful characters and write a story based on the scene...
Asteroids are rockier than comets. Yet it is possible for an asteroid to have a halo or a tail, made mostly of dust. Says Hal Weaver of the Space Telescope Institute: "The only real evidence that ((S-L 9 was)) a comet is that it broke apart, and we've never seen that in an asteroid. But maybe this was a fragile asteroid...
...major fragments. These stragglers, they predict, will keep hitting Jupiter through September. Unlike the participants in last week's show, however, some of the later pieces may smash into the near side of the planet, giving astronomers a chance to watch some strikes directly. Is the theory plausible? Says Weaver: "These are the same guys who said the pieces were big and that the impacts would be huge. They were right, and lots of others were wrong. We've had so many surprises from Shoemaker-Levy 9 already that I wouldn't rule anything...