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<text id=92TT1013>
<title>
May 11, 1992: The Beauty Myth
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
May 11, 1992 L.A.:"Can We All Get Along?"
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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PEOPLE, Page 67
The Beauty Myth
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<p>By MICHAEL QUINN
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<p> Director Bob Zemeckis is hoping that no one will reveal
the story of Death Becomes Her before it is released this
summer. He needn't worry -- a plot this wildly improbable has
to be screened to be believed. Set among the beauty conscious
of Beverly Hills, the movie features BRUCE WILLIS, MERYL STREEP
and GOLDIE HAWN in a bizarre gothic farce revolving around a
magical potion that offers its imbibers youth and a body that
literally won't die -- no matter how woefully abused -- thanks
to some unearthly special effects that give new meaning to the
phrase head spinning. "It's about the obsession that baby
boomers have about aging," says Zemeckis, who is particularly
pleased with the film's against-the-grain casting: Hawn as a
scheming villain, Streep as a slightly flighty movie star. "My
kind of comedy comes out of situations played very straight, and
I've seen Meryl doing it better than anybody."
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