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...their speed, technical wizardry, surface brilliance and cheerful cynicism, dyna-movies are the ideal art form for the MTV generation. Zapped for a decade by the lightning impulses of rock videos, inured to slaughter by campy slasher films, kids have become scarily sophisticated; they are connoisseurs of carnage. They know that in a blood ballet like Total Recall everybody gets killed but nobody gets hurt -- because the characters aren't human beings but ciphers, cyborgs, stunt people and stunted characters, no more real than the creatures vaporized in Nintendo games...
...suffered a stroke. Hard-liners plan a takeover, and part of the plan is framing the American on trumped-up charges before he can spill his scoop. Meantime, a Soviet actress is also trying to go West. Cullen's chilling portrait of Soviet society in flux is an ideal antidote for 90 degrees weather...
Cerullo is entering a dicey and competitive business. Although cable is ( ideal for specialized TV programming, experts figure that only two or three of the numerous religious networks can survive the next few years. Eternal Word (independent Roman Catholic, 14 million households) and ACTS (Southern Baptist-owned, 9.5 million) are pinning their salvation on locally based denominational loyalty. An interfaith and ecumenical entry known as VISN (7.4 million) just got Tele-Communications, Inc. and other cable owners to pledge as much as $12 million and give it two years to succeed. But VISN's programming is nonconfrontational, and hot gospel...
...lover of a novel turned into a movie, the book is always better. Turning the pages, the reader creates an ideal film version, with the perfect stars, shots and atmosphere. So when Alan J. Pakula set out to film Presumed Innocent, he knew he had to please not only this summer's moviegoers -- the film premieres July 27 -- but also the best seller's legions of fans...
SUCH high hopes. When Derek Curtis Bok was named Harvard's 25th president in 1971, many hoped for the conciliator to transform the University. The New York Times called Bok "symbolic of the beginning of a new era," and even we called him the "ideal choice...