Article: 'RENAISSANCE MAN' WORTHY OF ITS STRIPES

PHOTO Gregory Hines, left, plays the drill sergeant who sees Danny DeVito's character as in need of some discipline.

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A bravura performance by Danny DeVito and a young-but-gifted supporting cast save "Renaissance Man" director Penny Marshall from her penchant for overstatement and big warm fuzzies. DeVito is Bill Rago, a Detroit advertising executive with a low responsibility quotient. One last screw-up lands him in the unemployment insurance line. Although he has never taught before, the state employment counselor finds him a job at the local army base, where his job will be to teach "comprehension" to borderline ...

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