ENTERTAINMENT
May 25, 1993 | DAVID J. FOX
"Sliver," a movie billing Sharon Stone and hyped for its voyeuristic sexuality, landed in first place for the weekend, confirming earlier estimates. The comedy sequel "Hot Shots! Part Deux" came in deuxieme . But the grosses for the two debuting films were not sufficient to avert skepticism that they can hold up against the heavily promoted films opening this Memorial Day weekend. The political comedy "Dave," which was first a weekend earlier, fell to No.
NEWS
September 26, 1994 | KAREN STABINER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
For a perverse moment in history, I was fascinated by the real estate shows on cable television, the ones where you get to glide through a house that's for sale while a soothing voice describes the details. There was something about the tortured syntax that amazed me: The sentences weren't just backward, they were fractured in the middle and reset, wrong ends out. It was English from outer space. Perhaps Robert Evans wrote their scripts on the side.