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undist iplined ,md cinematii al
Iv unimpressive Mat k ( omedv
except this If I ever see Ml
c hael Douglas and Kathleen
Turner fight or make love on
screen again. I'll puke
Perhaps d has to do with di
rector co star Danny DeVito
He's such a nice guv. he'd he
buddies with anyone The trou
hie is. if you gel too many hud
dies, it can get in the way of
the project
Besides best pals Douglas
and Turner, DeVito’s movie
was backed bv long-time budd\
and colleague |im Brooks, t re
ator of DeVito's sitcom. Taxi.
and a less and less positive in
fluence on the cinema world
DeVito and Brooks would've
done well lo have a little heart
to-heart talk with another bud
dy. namely screenwriter Mi
chael Beeson.
T\ 's been verv kind to
Leeson he won Kmmvs tor
writing or prodm ing The (V>.s
In Show Taxi, and many
more His cronies should break
it to him gently something like
this
Listen, Mil hael we re all
proud of what you've at com
plished in the past, and now
that you're t utting your teeth
on feature film writing, we lie
lieve vou could genuinely have
something here when you're
done But frankly, we think
vour stor\ has too many cli
maxes even a bint k comedy
has to have room to breathe
"You could .iv three or four
situations s.iv, the bit about
the (lead ( at or the dead dog. or
the bad back or the attic scene;
any one of these tuts is expend
able Remember, when it comes
to dense, hit cm-over-the head
humor, none of us is Terry Oil
iiam."
One final note can someone
tell me which scene has a cam
eo appearance by vet another
buddv. leflrev Alan Thomas'
lie s listed in the final credits
and has played bits in all ot He
Vito's features; he previously
placed alongside- DeVito as as
sistant dispatc her Jett on f ax/
Always * * 1 J
The battle rages on. Is Steven
Spielberg an artistic filmmaker
or a populist one? Personally.
I'm a little too weary to wrestle
with this question right now
but 1 w ill say one thing In this
pic tore. Spielberg accomplish
es something totally different a
film that represents as little ar
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directed.
Or docs it :' This gimme plot
.ihout .1 devil may-care fighter
pilot who returns from the dead
to haunt his widow after she re
marries is part fantasy. pari in
nocuous baby boomer roineth
and part Spielberg wondering
whit h turn lie’ll take from
here
The fantasv part is safe ter
rain. Cometh is more dubious,
there's the failure of 1‘1-il to
analyze, apart from budgetary
excesses Spielberg repeatedly
attempts to inject elements of it
in other films espet iallv in
the last two Indiana tones niuv
ies and the [exults have been
heavy handed
At best, the film is no more
earth-shaking than your tvpit al
Amazing Stories episode,
which isn't so bad considering
everything else that haunts net
work I’Y Indeed this may well
be the first film that Spielberg
has geared completely with an
eye to the home video market
Lead players Kn hard Drey
fuss and Molly Hunter .ire
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