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...politics that day, but he never really stopped fighting. McCain's political career, from Congress to the Senate to a presidential campaign, can seem like a seamless extension of his Navy background, even of his genetic code. "He came from his grandfather and father," says high school friend Malcolm Matheson. "Both of them were small men and tough and scrappy. This man can do no other than that." His campaigns were less about issues and ideas than about hard work and grit. For him, the political is personal. He didn't much care whether you were a Democrat...
...Witzky (Kevin Bacon) hardly seems the prescient sort. Yet when he is hypnotized at a party, he tumbles into nightmares--or is it another dimension?--harboring fatal secrets. Scenarist Koepp (Jurassic Park) smoothly adapts a novel by Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come) with vagrant similarities to The Sixth Sense. The payoff is relatively small change, but the setup is persuasive: a portrait of a blue-collar marriage in mute distress. And strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared...
...suckers, and comedy's for kings. 1941 billed itself in 1979 as "A Comedy Spectacular," and it is: big, garrulous, messy, and often (but alas, not always) hilarious. A cast-of-thousands stacked with comedy veterans, from Aykroyd to Belushi to Candy to Slim Pickens to Tim Matheson to . . . to everybody, even Patti LuPone and an uncredited Penny Marshall. Not for the high-falutin, but that scene with the door . . . whooeee...
...children get all tangled up with Lucille Ball and her eight. It's The Brady Bunch meets The Swarm (also with Fonda), strictly for chuckle-prone domestic types for whom a gaggle of pouting cherubs are an apt substitute for just about anything. Reasons to watch: a young Tim Matheson, a full decade before Animal House, and a few winning moments involving, yes, pouting cherubs. Plus, after the terrific Mister Roberts, it's good to see Fonda back in uniform...
...President George Bush acknowledged as much in 1990, and since then the U.S. has paid $67 million to 1,338 of the "downwinders," many of whom live in Utah and believe their exposure to radiation caused leukemia and other ailments. An apparent victim was former Utah Governor Scott Matheson, who died of bone-marrow cancer a week before Bush's admission...