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‘Color of Night’ better
than movie’s publicity
By KEVIN CORBETT
The film Color of Night, star
ring Bruce Willis, weaves its way
through a combination of humor,
suspense, and sex.
Willis plays Dr. Bill Capa, a
sensitive psychiatrist. After wit
nessing one of his patients com
mitting suicide, Capa decides to
fly out to California and visit with
an old college buddy. Bob Moore
(Scott Bakula).
Moore, who is also a shrink,
has been receiving death threats
and feels that they may be com
ing from his Monday night sup
port group (on what he bases this
assumption, we never know).
Sure enough, Moore is brutally
murdered and Capa steps in to
find the killer.
In his spare time Capa has a
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dangerous liaison with a young
girl who literally bumped into him
(Jane March).
The support group provides all
the humor in the film. The dia
logue between the five members
and Capa’s character is written
incredibly well. One notable per
formance features Brad Dourif as
an obsessive compulsive with a
horrendous temper.
Willis surprisirtgly shows
range as an actor and seems like
a real person, not a typical Holly
wood hero. His character may not
be very bright, but what fun would
it be if he figured out the mystery
right away? Ruben Blades adds
College degree provides
$600,000 more income
Here’s something to tell your
self if you’re still flipping burgers
six months after graduation; in
terms of your lifetime income, a
college degree is worth more
money than ever before.
A recent study by the U.S.
Census Bureau says that a col
lege diploma can mean an extra
$600,000 of income in a typical
43.5-year career.
In 1992, the average salary for
a high school graduate was
$18,737. By comparison, the av
erage college graduate earned
$32,629. Those numbers are both
up from 1990, when high school
graduates were earning $16,284
annually and college grads were
making $29,868.
Over a lifetime, the salary dif
ference between high school
graduates and college graduates
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great comic relief as a policeman
on the case.
This film did not make money
because of bad marketing. The
television commercials made the
film look like Willis’ take on Ba
sic Instinct, showing only brief
clips from the sex scenes. Audi
ences don’t want to see the same
thing over and over again. What
the audience will not know is that
there is more to the film than that.
In October, Willis will have
the film Pulp Fiction for critical
acclaim and Die Hard 3 will be
out next summer, but now Willis
is looked upon as an actor who
has fallen from greatness.
Chalk up Color of Night as
another box office failure from
the extremely talented performer.
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can be very significant.
The Census Bureau estimates
that over a course of a lifetime, a
high school graduate makes an
average of $821,000 while a col
lege graduate earns approximately
$1.4 million, almost $600,000
more than his or her less-educated
counterpart.
According to the study, the sal
ary numbers rise for students who
continue their education beyond
a bachelor’s degree. People with
master’s degrees will make $1.6
million over a lifetime; those with
doctorates make $2.1 million; and
people with professional degrees,
such as doctors and lawyers, earn
an estimated $3 million.
The study also found that
people without high school di
plomas earn an average of
$609,000 during their career.
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