Director Ron Howard continues to toss and turn and sweat profusely in the grips of bestselleritis: one of those multi-character Arthur Hailey-type things, set this time in the exciting world of newspaper publishing (the fictitious New York Sun: "It Shines for All"), where every day brings a new deadline, a new quest for truth and justice, a new chance to clear the innocent and smear the guilty. Lighter in tone than Howard's earlier bouts with the ailment, Backdraft and Far and Away -- but that simply means overgreased and overstressed dialogue ("I got a prostate the size of a bagel!"), and it means that when the Managing Editor (Glenn Close) takes a kick at the hindquarters of the Metro Editor (Michael Keaton), she will land flat on her back like one or all of the Three Stooges. Alongside this, any episode of Lou Grant stands as a monument of artistic integrity. With Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Marisa Tomei. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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