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They settle temporarily on the body of a southern California corporate hot shot, Leo Farnsworth, who has just been poisoned by his paranoid wife (played by the zaftig Dyan Cannon) and her lover, Farnsworth's eager-to-please private secretary, (Charles Grodin, the lovable shiksachaser who woos and wins Cybil Shepard in The Heartbreak Kid). Farnsworth turns out to be a particularly loathsome tycoon as he alternately comes under attack from both his adulterous wife and scheming secretary and from enviornmental protection groups protesting his multinational's unsafe and exploitative practices...
...Farnsworth finds himself quite ill at ease in his new surroundings. He can't get used to the pretensions assumed by the late Farnsworth and forgoes formality as he athietically dashes about the mansion delivering brisk "hiyas" and "how-ya-doin's" to a staff of bewildered servants. Especially amusing is the scene in which Joe exhorts his board of directors to act like a winning football team and give in to consumer demands, forsaking short-term profits for an ultimate "victory...
...TRICKY ASPECT of the film is that Joe appears to the audience and his heavenly guardians as his former self, but as Farnsworth (whom we never actually see) to ever body else. This gimmick naturally provides several humorous encounters. The best of these is the scene in which Joe tries to convince his old coach that he is really Pendleton and not Farnsworth, and to let him play in the Super Bowl...
During the weekend, 5 in. of rain had fallen on Toccoa ("beautiful place" in the Cherokee language). The swollen, 50-acre-wide lake at the head of the valley burst the earthen dam, which had been built in 1901 and enlarged in 1937. Said Ron Farnsworth, whose trailer was on high ground and was spared: "I believe God took home the people he wanted to take home. They were all born-again believers. This is a victory for them." College President Kenn Opperman called the disaster "an obstacle we are going to convert into a steppingstone. This is a privilege...
...testimony of Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus, was designed to affect the politicians in another way. Farnsworth had changed positions on decriminalization completely. Having testified against marijuana for the prosecution in a 1967 test case in Boston, Farnsworth vice-chaired the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse established during the Nixon administration. A blue-ribbon group of establishment notables, the commission spent millions of dollars in extensive analysis and published its findings in March 1972 in Marijuana: Signal of Misunderstanding. It was a book that former President Nixon did not care to read. Oteri notes...