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One of the top-grossing films of its year (at almost $120 million), although originally threatened with an NC-17 rating hat would have considerably cut profits, star Sharon Stone""s career as a sex goddess was also revived in her copy-cat Hitchcockian murder-mystery role, similar toVertigo (1958), as an icy,femme fataleblonde - a suspected ice-pick murderess whose novel was titledLove Hurts.There are superstitious beliefs among the natives hat the escarpment is sacred and anyone who looks or ventures beyond he escarpment faces death by the "witchmen of the tribe.Maggie volunteered to confront Freddy, plug herself into Doc""s brain-wave computer monitor, and then have Doc pull her out at the right moment: "You""ve got to be holding him to carry him out.In Higgins"" study at his residence on Wimpole Street, he professor and his houseguest are studying vowel sounds produced from a vibrating tuning fork taken from a rack full of tuning forks.A whole hatful.Mary, I know what I""m gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and next year, and the year after that.I""m shakin"" the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I""m gonna see the world.Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, he Coliseum.Then, I""m comin"" back here to go to college and see what they know.And then I""m gonna build things.I""m gonna build airfields, I""m gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I""m gonna build bridges a mile long.