European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Billboard s lop 10 videocassette rentals 1 the godfather part Iii Paramount Home video 2 the silence of the lambs Orion Home video 3 Robin Hood Prince of thieves Warner Home video 4 dances with wolves Orion Home video 5 class action Fox video 6 Madonna truth or dare live Home video 7 the doors live Home video 8 one Good cop Hollywood pictures Home video 9 switch Hob video 10 fantasia Walt Disney Home video the top 10 to shows in America for nov. 410, according to the . Nielsen co. Year to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 3 60 minutes lbs 2 1 Roseann 3 30 empty nest 4 4 cheers 5 2 Murphy Brown lbs 6 25 nurses 7 7 major dad lbs 8 5 designing women lbs 9 11 unsolved mysteries 10 48 Golden girls Bill Murray and Richard Drey Utiss Star in what about Bob which draws a shaky review. Bua Navato \ 11 it let us \ ii w by Dolores Barclay a arts editor what about Bob Buena Vista. Rated pm. The better question is what about Bill Murray will he Ever find a movie project with a Good script stay tuned. This time around Murray portrays a patient with a so called Multi phobic personality whose shrink parcels him off to another psychiatrist who a about to take his family on a months vacation. Bob Falls in love with the new shrink Richard Dreyfuss and forms desperate dependency. When the doctor leaves town for vacation Bob tracks him Down first by phone and then by showing up in the sleepy new Hampshire town where the shrink is frolicking with his wife and two children. The family takes a genuine liking to Bob which slowly turns the egomaniacal doctor into a Basket Case. What about Bob is supposed to be a funny or at least Light hearted. However the jokes Arentt Vicy funny the situations Are embarrassing at Best and the dialogue is lame. What about Bob is the kind of movie that makes you keep your Finger on the fast Forward Button. The opening is made All the More irritating by repeated references to the doctors Best Selling shrink Tome baby Steps. Murray baby Steps his Way All the Way to new Hampshire. By the time he gets there you la be Halfway Back to the video store demanding a refund. A guilty by suspicion. Warner. Rated pg-13. Written and directed by Irwin Winkler this will make you angry a very angry. Its the horrific Story of the Hollywood blacklist a time when Friend turned against Friend when studio Bosses buckled under to congressional bullies and maniacs. Despite so powerful a topic Winkler a direction is somewhat tame his camera work somewhat unimaginative his characters More Ordinary than tragic. In All fairness this is Winkler s debut As a director. Winkler the producer can be proud of a Rich body of exceptional movies including raging Bull and the right stuff he was inspired to do a movie on the Mccarthy Witch Hunt after meeting actor John Beny while in Paris during filming of round Midnight a another Winkler production. Berry was a victim of the Hollywood blacklist. Horrified by the actors account Winkler began to weave the Story of the fictional David Merrill a highly successful and much sought after director whose career is threatened when he refuses to a name names for the House in american activities committee. Merrill Robert de Niro returns Home from an overseas shoot to find his friends and associates looking Over their shoulders. He a up for a new Plum assignment. His studio Boss tells him to cooperate with the congressional committee and the Job will be his. All he has to do is name the people who attended a few leftist meetings during his youth meetings he was asked to leave for disagreeing. If he does no the can lose it All and be sent to prison for contempt As some people were at the time. Among those he is asked to Snitch on is his oldest buddy screenwriter Bunny Baxter George Merrill is sent to lawyer Felix Graff portrayed by Sam Wanamaker who was in real life a victim of the blacklist. Graff already has advised screenwriter Larry Nolan Chris co opera so called Friend who gives the Hupac the names of Merrill and Baxter. Poised on the abyss of moral dilemma Merrill holds out and refuses to name names. The studio dumps him he can to find work the Fri stalks his every move. He moves to new York tries to get work from an old theater Friend and is turned Down. He finally gets a Job tinkering with equipment at a Little photo shop until the Fri sniffs him out and questions the shopkeeper. Merrill returns to Hollywood moves in with his estranged wife Ruth Annette Bening and rekindles their relationship. The studio dangles the file he act la nce a a no an appears before this is an excellent video to watch at Home with the entire family. Your children will ask questions As they should. You might even have a few yourself. Guilty by suspicion offers a Good history lesson and is a Good reminder of a time most people would rather forget. Page 16 a sunday november 17. 1991
