Word: film
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...could hope for money, fame, power, love, brains and muscles? Only Arnold, as he is everywhere known. Just now he is the movies' top star, the one whose name above the title of a film -- Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, Predator, Twins, Total Recall or his new Kindergarten Cop -- guarantees that people will buy tickets or snatch up the videocassette. He didn't need a plastic surgeon or a movie-agent Mephistopheles to become Arnold; his eminence is a triumph of the will. Even if he weren't a celebrity, he would be richer than Webster; his shrewd entrepreneurship...
Some antitheft systems are decidedly low-tech. Several grocery stores, including Cub Foods in Colorado Springs, Colo., are placing life-size cardboard figures of local police officers next to such tempting items as film and cosmetics. The cutouts cost Cub $500 apiece but have reduced shoplifting in the store 30% in the past six weeks. "We don't have to feed them, pay them, give them vacation or worker's comp," says assistant manager L.J. Stevens. "We just clean them off once a week with a dustcloth...
...documentary re-creates the sad final chapter of Monroe's career: her work on Something's Got to Give, the 20th Century Fox film left uncompleted when she died in August 1962. The hourlong special (Thursday, Dec. 13, 9 p.m. EST, the Fox network) unveils raw footage that had been thought lost until it was discovered in a warehouse on the Fox lot in 1982. Written and narrated with nicely understated affection by producer Henry Schipper, the documentary gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of a Hollywood star -- and a Hollywood studio -- in extremis...
...Irene Dunne comedy My Favorite Wife, Monroe was cast as a woman, presumed dead, who returns after five years on a deserted island to find her husband (Dean Martin) remarried. The TV documentary shows that contrary to Hollywood lore, Monroe was not listless and drugged-out in her last film appearance. In fact, she looks terrific (she had lost 15 lbs. for the part) and seems alert and spirited in the clips -- especially in the famous nude swimming scene that landed her on magazine covers around the world...
...movie? From the unedited clips and outtakes, a few things become clear. Beleaguered director George Cukor was something close to a saint. Monroe was almost laughably miscast. And the film looks like a dog that would have done little to revive her sagging Hollywood career. For her thriving legend, however, it should be boffo...