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Then again, it might have something to do with the shoreline's erosion. Although I run by the banks daily, many fellow joggers lose their footing, opting to swim rather than run for exercise. Not that swimming is much better; in 1967, the cascade of water problems were considered too...
The U.S.-French mission was not the first to seek the ill-fated ocean liner. From the moment the ship plunged to the bottom, people have dreamed of salvaging the vast riches said to be on board, but the great depths and stormy waters of the North Atlantic were thought...
The self-referential touches start with jokes on his own name. As Critic Veronica Geng has noted, Spielberg translates from the German as "play mountain." The hero of Close Encounters finds his way to the starship by molding a mountain out of a dirt hill. At the beginning of both...
Which is only to say that The Goonies is as hip, sassy and innocent as its seven teenage heroes. In the Spielberg tradition, each youngster uses his or her ordinary strengths to forge, and then save, a community of lost souls. Wise-Guy Mouth (Corey Feldman) translates the Spanish on...
FOOTNOTE: *The latest count gives ABC a 5 rating, NBC 4.5 and CBS 3.2. That translates into 4.2 million sets tuned to GMA, 3.8 million to Today and 2.7 million to Morning