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...that attitude is far from universal. Biologist Greg Stone, of the New England Aquarium in Boston, compares reaching the deepest abyss with Christopher Columbus' search for the New World. "Why should we care about the deepest 3% of the oceans, and why do we need to reach it?" he asks rhetorically. "For one, we won't know what it holds until we've been there. There will certainly be new creatures. We'll be able to learn where gases from the atmosphere go in the ocean. We'll be able to get closest to where the geological action...
...fellow actors attest that he is relaxed and totally pro these days. "He's an incredibly hard worker," says Nine Months' director Chris Columbus, who was impressed that Arnold could hold his own in improvising bits with Grant and Robin Williams for the film's hospital delivery-room scene. But in interviews he is constantly squirming, endlessly restless. He has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Ritalin might help control the symptoms, but he won't take the medicine, on the (unproven) theory that it could lead back to his drug addiction...
directed by Chris Columbus...
What director Chris Columbus has produced, however, is a very funny, satisfying and entertaining flick in the tradition of his other popular films which include Mrs. Doubtfire and the Home Alone movies...
...Columbus sidesteps certain iffy issues raised in the French original--where the man, on hearing of his impending fatherhood, says to his girlfriend, "I have the honor to ask you to have an abortion," and later has a sexual fling on the side--for more general, genial comedy. The movie also gets unwontedly frantic toward the end, with slapstick brawls and auto injuries. (Note to Hollywood: Can you outlaw funny car crashes, starting right now?) But the film has a cleverness that is as irresistible as it is predictable, and Grant eventually looks comfortable in the main role...