Guest Critics
Julia Phillips on Oscar's Greatest Moments: ''Jack Nicholson appears in more reaction shots than any other Oscar attendee. We see Jack young, Jack middle- aged, Jack hunky, Jack fat, Jack pale, Jack
tan, Jack without -- or more often, with -- sunglasses, Jack accepting, and always, always Jack smiling. Is there nothing that can bring this man
down?'' (1992)
Timothy Leary on Acidburn Flashback Tabu: ''Designed to produce altered states, hypnotic trance experiences. As you can see, it worked for me.'' (1994)
Romano Mussolini, Benito's son, on Swing Kids: ''[Enjoying jazz]was harder for young people in Germany [during WWII], where they had a much stricter man in charge.'' (1993)
You Don't Say
Brinke Stevens, scream queen, on her typical roles: ''I usually start out normal and pretty, and about halfway through I get
possessed, go insane, or turn into a vampire.'' (1992)
Don ''The Dragon'' Wilson, martial-arts video giant, on rival Jean-Claude Van Damme: ''He was a member of the Belgian national team. That's like being part of the Bahamian football league.'' (1994)
Ginger Lynn Allen, former porn star, on appearing in Skin Deep: ''Blake Edwards said he and his wife [Julie Andrews] enjoyed my work. Imagine! Mary Poppins liked my work.'' (1994)
Matters of Opinion
On Strapless: ''Plays like a Pretty Woman for Mensa alumni -- it's pitched too high for human ears.'' (1990)
On Sonja Henie: ''Popular as this tiny dynamo on blades was, she's impossible to take now -- a grinning, dimpled horror you'll want to boot into the nearest snowbank.'' (1991)
On Rapid Fire, starring Brandon Lee: ''The kickboxing equivalent of a Julian Lennon single.'' (1993)
On Pet Sematary 2: ''This isn't filmmaking, it's film developing.'' (1993)
On Hudson Hawk: ''Like most people, I didn't catch Hudson Hawk in theaters, on the premise that you don't have to actually see a freeway pileup to know it's awful.'' (1991)
On Mirror Images: ''Lead knockout [Delia] Sheppard struggles valiantly with her lines while modeling some of the teensiest outfits this side of Lilliput.'' (1992)
On Housewife From Hell: ''[The] filmmakers couldn't direct lemmings off a cliff.'' (1994)
On Sorceress: ''There's so much going on in Sorceress' pre-credit sequence that the rest of the film feels like Sorceress II.'' (1994)
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