Boxoffice-March.1988

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BEST DIRECTION BY A FORMER POPULAR
TV STAR
Rob Reiner, "The Princess Bride."
Runner-up
Leonard Nimoy, "Three Men and a Baby."
WORST DIRECTION BY A FORMER POPU-
LAR TV STAR
Paul Michael Claser, "The Running Man,"
TOP THREE MOVIES STARRING CURRENT
TV STARS
"Three Men and a Baby," $70.8 million.
"The Secret of my Success," $67 million.
"Blind Date," $39.3 million
TOP FIVE MOVIES STARRING FORMER
TV STARS
"Beverly Hills Cop II,"
$153.6 million.
"Fatal Attraction," $123.5 million.
"The Witches of Eastwick," $63.7 million.
"Dragnet," $57.2 million.
"Outrageous Fortune," $52,9 million.
TOP THREE MOVIES THAT USED TO BE TV
SHOWS
"The Untouchables," $76.2 million.
"Dragnet," $57.2 million.
"Star Trek IV," $41.6 in 1987.
THE "MAKE HOWARD STERN TURN AWAY
IN TEARS OF SHAME" AWARD
Lee Ermay, "Full Metal lacket"
Runner-up
Eddie Murphy, "Raw." Interestingly, both
men wrote most of their own dialogue.
SPECIAL KILL-ANYTHING-FOR-A-LAUGH
AWARD
Goes to massive thespian Arnold Schwarzenegger,
who spent most of "The Running
Man" murdering his enemies in incredible,
nasty, brain-fryingly horrible ways, then, after
each vanquishment, proving himself the irrepressible
punster. Arnold strangles a man to
death with concertina wire. "He was a real
pain in the neck," quips the grinning Schwarzenegger.
Arnold launches a man into a brick
wall in a rocket sled traveling hundreds of
miles per hour. "That really hit the spot,"
smirks our favorite bodybuilder-cum-actor.
Arnold slowly cuts a man in half with a bloodspattered
chain saw. "He had to split," growls
the smirking Austrian
As Schwarzenegger's star continues to rise,
we can imagine how screenwriters of the
future will be forced to stretch their imaginations
to continue producing enough dialogue
to accommodate the hulking matinee idol.
Perhaps Arnold can drop serial killers into
huge vats of acid before exclaiming, in badlyinflected
English, "Soup's ON'" Maybe he can
shout "Where's da Beef^" crush them to
death with gargantuan 1,000-pound cheeseburgers
Then he can ask, "Do you want
FRIES wit dat'" If the no-goodniks are frightened
enough to reply in the affirmative,
Arnold can pick up and drop the entire state
of Idaho on them.
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