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By DAVID BOWDEN
Staff Writer
Born on the Fourth of July is,
simply put, a disappointment.
Oliver Stone's latest movie is so
depressing that it is almost unbearable
to watch. As a director, Stone
likes to show the darkness and dirt
oi me. uniortunately, he was too
successful.
The movie is the story of reallife
Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic,
played by Tom Cruise, who does
an excellent job showing the transformation
of Kovic from an idealistic
patriot to a crippled, bitter
man.
However, this transformation
takes place over two and a half
hours. The movie is too long, especially
since the subject matter is
so horrific.
Children are shown mangled
and dismembered. Cruise's character
is shot in the spine and paralyzed.
He recuperates in a ratinfested
hospital where he has to
lie in his own filth. Kovic then
comes home and becomes alienated
from his family and friends,
at one point having a five-minute
shouting match with his mother.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? The ne>
down into the dim underground vai
cades where fans of "Beauty and
kept alive the darkly atmospl
romance-adventure series. Finally, th
been canceled.
"I think everybody is relieved. We
to worry about CBS any more," sail
Wiltse, publisher of Pipeline, a defii
letter on the real-world workings
and the Beast."
This is not to say that fans (whc
selves "Beasties" and "Beast-frien
"Supporters of 'Beauty and the Beas
the series die.
No, when word leaked early this
CBS had canceled the show, fando
deluge Fox Broadcasting Co. with i
it to pick up the show.
"Now that CBS has canceled 'B&
and made it painfully clear that the
thing more to do with it, the fans
'OK, everybody, write to Fox,"' sai
Hartman.
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include a large amount of the most
graphic violence (including Apo- Tom Cri
calypse Now and Taxi Driver.) Fourth of J
What separates those movies from
Born on the Fourth of July is the Instead c
style of their directors. Kovic's triui
Oliver Stone bludgeons the au- rible diffici
diencc with a constant stream of viewer leave
violence, profanity and horror. He and exhausU
contradicts the whole feeling of the was not me
movie by turning upbeat at the but Stone go
very end of the film as Kovic Tom Cr
speaks at the 1976 Democratic Academy A
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ie show had Fox's response, Hartman said, was
don't have any specific plans right no
; don't have door is open."
d Stephanie In a prepared statement last week,
litive news- not quite that optimistic. Referring to
of "Beauty and the show's producers had been di:
pickup of the series, Fox said this:
) call them- "We don't know how the rumors g
ds" or just There've been no discussions betwee
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to pick up the show."
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m began to Network might pick up the series ar
sails asking going. But USA "hasn't had any di:
about that with the producers, s;
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are saying, lion an episode, "it's not very likely
d Kimberly USA Network would want to k<
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