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`Gorillas': Weaver Shines Amid Hollywood Hokum
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Sigourney Weaver is a towering actress, both physically and
otherwise, and for about a quarter of her new film, it seems that, at
last, she may have found a part cut to her scale.
The role she plays in "Gorillas in the Mist" is that of the
world-famous primatologist Dian Fossey, who gave up her work as a
physical therapist and for 13 years-before she was murdered in her
sleep in 1985-devoted herself to the study of the mountain gorillas
of Rwanda. And because for much of the film all we see is Fossey,
alone on her mountain with, as she comes to call them, her gorillas,
Weaver's more on ...
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Sigourney Weaver takes a bold leap with `Gorillas'
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