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Jesus has brief onscreen sex with his first wife Mary Magdalene and later commits adultery. Judas is a hero, the strongest and best of the apostles. Paul is a hypocrite and liar. Jesus is so dazed that, even on the eve of his Crucifixion, he is still not quite sure whether to preach love or murder Romans...
...pleasure to find a movie star, like Tom Cruise, who radiates old- fashioned star quality. Onscreen Cruise looks life-size or a little less; his body is not so much beefy as blocky; when he laughs, his prominent nose turns into a knuckle. Yet if Cruise disdains perfection for a roguish humanity, his million-watt smile makes him immediately likable, even swoonworthy. In Risky Business, Top Gun and The Color of Money, he effused an unselfconscious self- confidence, an anachronistic but winning spirit of American go-get. In an ideal suburbia, Cruise is the boy next door, most likely...
...stretch a talent best suited to the five-minute sketch to fit a full-length film? Until now, the answer has been either to have Murphy simulate a variety of roles while actually playing a single character, as in his cop/action flicks, or, perversely, to have him appear onscreen as little as possible, as in Trading Places. The first answer has proved inadequate to sustain an entire movie--else guns and flash would not be necessary--and the second defeats the purpose of a film serving as the vehicle for a particular actor...
...potential customers abroad. Londoners have seen 30-second TV spots sponsored by the California office of tourism in which British TV Personality Denis Norden touts the merits of Hollywood, Disneyland and Fisherman's Wharf. "The Golden Gate is red," Norden intones while the majestic San Francisco bridge flickers onscreen, giving way to a stand of trees. "Giant redwoods are green." Europeans who want brochures on Disney World and other attractions in Florida can now write directly to a British address and get a quicker response than they would if they had to send an inquiry across the Atlantic...
What is left onscreen is a faithfully translated narrative. Jamie loses his job, loses his wife, uses his friends, mostly in the pursuit of drugs. But his story is an attenuated one, and when it is told flatly, Jamie turns into a terrible twit, alternately superior and self-pitying, especially with a sympathetic older colleague (Swoosie Kurtz) at the New Yorker-like magazine where both work. The fact that his mother loved him but died does not really excuse him. The fact that Fox brings the sympathy he has won, and the comic elan he has perfected, on television cannot...