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The film is set in '63, I guess, before the civil-rights movement kicked into really high gear, and underneath the liberal veneer of many a Hanks film I sense some creepy nostalgia for this simpler time.
Rather than waking up and remarking about the four inches of snow we received here overnight, the big story here is about the two office workers who were stuck in an skyscraper elevator that went on a 40-story free fall--only to screech to a stop near the fourth floor when the emergency brake kicked in.
The movie isn't clear on where the secret report that kicked off Bergman's interest in tobacco came from, or who in the FDA thought it was a good idea to turn him onto Wigand.
ABC News president David Westin is the latest star in the network news soap opera . USA Today implied that Westin's predecessor, the legendary Roone Arledge, is being kicked upstairs because ABC is losing the ratings war to NBC.
Linda Tripp kicked off her image rehab tour.