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Back home in Cambridge, the police reported over 1000 incidents of violent crime last year. And in cities like Detroit and Washington, D.C., simple murder is old news unless there's a sex scandal or a psychopathic weirdo as a backdrop to the killing...
...Nielsen chart, often cracking the Top 10. There it usually joins Miller-Boyett's reigning champ, the four-year-old Full House, in which three unattached males cope with a houseful of little girls. Not far behind is Perfect Strangers, a buddy comedy with Bronson Pinchot as an immigrant weirdo who comes to live with his cousin (Mark Linn-Baker...
PACIFIC HEIGHTS. Weirdo Michael Keaton squats in a house and tries to drive the nice couple who own it crazy. Sound like Beetlejuice II? Not quite: this thriller concentrates on turning familiar fears into plausible melodrama. The result is one of the slickest haunted-house movies since Psycho...
Larry (Tim Robbins) is not entirely unfamiliar either. You have met him most memorably in Dog Day Afternoon. He is the not-quite-bright, entirely too volatile urban terrorist of every passerby's nightmare. For he is the kind of weirdo who one day decides to air his grievances by invading public space, grabbing a few hostages and seeing if the resulting police and media attention will ease the throbbing in his temples. Larry rides his motorcycle through the plate-glass window of Turgeon Auto, in grungy Queens, N.Y., where Joey works. He is looking for whoever is having...
Last year James Spader made his first large claim on public approval with his portrayal of a delicately nuanced weirdo in sex, lies, and videotape. Around the same time, sometime brat-packer Rob Lowe made his first large claim on public opprobrium when it was revealed that he had staged a somewhat less formal drama -- more of an improv, really -- involving sex, lies and videotape in an Atlanta hotel room during the 1988 Democratic Convention. Now the two young actors are co-starring in something called Bad Influence, and guess what familiar items feature in its plot...