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...movie's promoters advertise the story as a romantic, fish-out-of-the-water comedy. In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an eccentric scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his expectant wife (Sissy Spacek) decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or two. But an airplane crashes into their house above, they mistake its rumbles for a bomb, and they end up staying in the underground lair for 35 years. In 1997, Calvin and his wife decide they need to refuel on supplies and send Adam, their born-in-captivity son (Brendan Fraser...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FIZZLES out | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

Besides the attempt to be a meaningful movie, Blast often contains sight gags that are absolutely hilarious. Take note of Joey Slotnick ("The Single Guy") as the bum who mistakes Calvin Webber for the messiah. As Eve's gay confidante, Dave Foley ("NewsRadio") elicits chuckles with his sympathetic demeanor and sharp tongue...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FIZZLES out | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...alternate sober, numbing presentations of exculpatory evidence with passionate appeals to common sense and American ideals. Ruff opened the defense with a grave dissection of the House managers' conspiracy theory. He argued that the chronology broke down--Vernon Jordan was already on a plane to Europe when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the Paula Jones team could question other women--so the ruling could not have triggered his meeting earlier that day to help Monica find a job. And Ruff offered the first of the week's rhetorical body blows. The former Watergate prosecutor, hunched in his wheelchair, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Campaign | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

ACQUITTED. CHRIS WEBBER, 25, Sacramento Kings basketball star; of marijuana possession, assault and resisting arrest. Maryland police officers said they subdued Webber when he tried to prevent them from opening his car door. Webber claimed he was on the phone to his lawyer when police yanked him from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 14, 1998 | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...Rutherford Institute has run up $400,000 on her behalf.) Clinton should be able to fund the payout from his insurance and his Legal Expense Trust, which as of August held about $1 million. The settlement does not exempt him from a possible contempt citation by federal judge Susan Webber Wright for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones case. But the deal will give the President yet another boost going into this week's impeachment hearings. In that light, it looks like a bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Tormentor Finally Settles | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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