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	Heaven Can Wait (1943 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 comedy film which tells the story of a man who has to prove he belongs in Hell by telling his life story.
		It stars Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn, Eugene Pallette, Signe Hasso and Louis Calhern.
		It is not to be confused with the 1978 film also called Heaven Can Wait, which is based on the 1941 film Here Comes Mr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1943) (148 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Trouble in Paradise: The Criterion Collection
		Besides mentions from film scholars, it'd be hard to know who he was, and why his touch was so renowned.
		What makes the film more so is that it communicates a sense of chance that, had things gone a little different, the results might have changed.
		Accompanying the film is an audio commentary by Lubitsch biographer Scott Eyman, who does offer some play-by-play but mostly comments on who Lubitsch was, why he is so important, the influence he exerts, and what makes this film so special.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/t/troubleinparadise_cc.shtml (1642 words)

	eastbayexpress.com \| Film \| Movies \| Heaven Can Wait \| 2004-09-08
		Warriors of Heaven and Earth may be timed to capitalize on the popularity of Hero, but it is not the same kind of film.
		The first half of the movie is reminiscent of a Western, with the dusty desert town, robber-baron boss, and the honorable lawman who forms a temporary alliance with his equally honorable prey to fight for justice.
		Instead of heading toward a high-noon showdown, however, the film shifts gears into swashbuckling mode, with supernatural objects and large-scale sword fights.
	www.eastbayexpress.com /Issues/2004-09-08/film/movies2.html (759 words)

	Kanfer Welcome
		Their film, Capote, derives its strength from the protagonist’s epochal journey west, his ambiguous sentiments and his ruinous sorrows.
		All it would take is a mix of official indifference to warning signs, the kind of absurd and unreasonable Western guilt pushed by the academic left, and the kind of stupidity that always issues comes from people who, unlike doctors, don’t have to work for a living.
		Or the bombers of London, who loathe the West, love death, and cannot wait to strike again--with, of course, the aid of the useful idiots who believe in appeasement, capitulation and surrender to the very worst this young century has to offer.
	www.stefankanfer.org /welcome.htm (11126 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Heaven Can Wait [1978]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The whimsical comedy-romance Heaven Can Wait is a delightful example of the small sub-genre of afterlife comedies.
		The film, which teams then lovers Warren Beatty and Julie Christie for a third time following McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) and Shampoo (1975), is not a remake of the 1943 supernatural film of the same name, but of the Robert Montgomery classic Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941).
		His spirit accidentally gets taken to Heaven by an angelic new recruit and he is sent back to earth in the body of corporate giant, Leo Farnsworth.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NFXF (1241 words)

	Dyan Cannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samile Diane Friesen (born January 4, 1937 in Tacoma, Washington to a Baptist father and a Jewish mother), better known as Dyan Cannon, is an American film and television actress.
		She received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress, one for Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969) and another for Heaven Can Wait (1978).
		In 1965 she married Cary Grant, becoming his fourth wife, and divorced in 1968.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dyan_Cannon (152 words)

	:: SCIFIFANTASYNEWS.COM :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Heaven Can Wait (1943) a film based on the stage play of the same name by Leslie Bush-Fekete.
		Heaven Can Wait (1978) a film which is actually remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr.
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	iFMagazine.com Reviews - DOWN TO EARTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chances are the very people who revere Warren Beatty’s HEAVEN CAN WAIT will be the last people in line to see Chris Rock massacre that brilliant film in his new comedy DOWN TO EARTH.
		While PIE raked in the cash, the film was amateurishly shot and the story appallingly bad.
		There’s just no heart to this movie which relies on repeating key plot points like “I can see who you really are in your eyes” so many times, you get the feeling the Weitz brothers must think the audience is a bunch of morons.
	www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=738 (676 words)

	Heaven Can Wait (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Trivia: Paul McCartney wrote a song for the film called "Did We Meet Somewhere Before?" Beatty wasn't satisfied with it so the song was discarded.
		It was eventually used in Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979).
		from Greenville, NY This is one of the better lightweight comedies of the 1970's, its a remake of an older film.
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	HEAVEN CAN WAIT FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Down to Earth (1947), a sequel to the 1941 film.
		Jordan'', not a remake of the original 1943 film.
		This 1978 version was remade several times, with different titles:
	www.19gmarketinggroup.com /Heaven_Can_Wait (121 words)

	'Heaven Can Wait,' boxer tells angel in stage comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rodgerland Productions opens its 21st season this weekend with "Heaven Can Wait," a romantic comedy by Harry Segall.
		The play is about a boxer who is sent to heaven before his time and demands a rematch.
		Jordan," with Robert Montgomery and also the 1978 film "Heaven Can Wait," with Warren Beatty.
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	GreenCine \| product main - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
		Dimly amiable L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Beatty) is prematurely called to Heaven by an over-eager escort (Buck Henry, who co-directed) after a traffic accident.
		Heaven Can Wait offered contemporary yet old-fashioned escapism and tapped into the late-1970s vogue for nostalgic fun, becoming one of 1978's most popular summer movies after Grease.
		Gently breathing life into a classic form, Heaven Can Wait found romantic innocence in a jaded time, and it went on to receive nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
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	USS Indianapolis CA-35 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She can be seen on www.dogster.com People will usually ask if we are race fans when they hear her name, and it give us an opportunity to spread the word about heroes of the ship.
		All I can say to the survivors and the families of the lost is this; thank you for your service to our great nation.
		What words are there to express the heartfelt sorrow I have for the men who lost their lives waiting to be saved and for those men who eventually were saved but would never be the same again.
	www.ussindianapolis.org /guestbook/guestbook.html (17737 words)

	Chris Rock fails to gain new fans with 'Down to Earth'
		Usually these films don't have involved or thought-provoking plots, they simply serve as a new forum for the comedian to tell his jokes.
		In order to fix their faux pas, the angels who "killed" Barton arrange for him to inhabit the body of a rich white millionaire (who, by the way, we see for a total of two minutes on screen — the rest of the time we see Rock).
		The particulars of the story really aren't important because, as I said, the main purpose for the film is Rock and his jokes.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2001/03/03-01-01tdc/03-01-01darts-2.asp (436 words)

	Heaven Can Wait (1978)
		The film and play was further remade as Down to Earth(2001) with actor Chris Rock where it was given a racial twist and became a film about a Black man being incarnated in a white man’s body.
		Of the two this is certainly the more polished in that Beatty and Henry have a budget on hand which has allowed them to expand beyond the original film’s inherent reliance on its stage origins.
		The film was a huge success in the US and for inexplicable reasons fared enormously well at the Academy Awards, notching up nominations for Best Picture, Best Screen Adaptation, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Actor (Beatty), Best Supporting Actor (Warden) and Best Supporting Actress (Cannon), although it won only for Art Direction.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/heavencanwait78.htm (796 words)

	Heaven Can Wait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This cinematic lump of coal is now available on DVD for those whom Santa has determined to be naughty.
		Zorro proves she can handle motherhood and swordplay in The Legend of Zorro.
		"Heaven Can Wait shines in almost every department: it in one of those rare movies that deserves to be seen again and again."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1009427-heaven_can_wait (416 words)

	Down to Earth (2001)
		is a remake of the 1978 afterlife fantasy Heaven Can Wait which was co-directed by and starred Warren Beatty.
		Rock’s stand-up routine does seem somewhat at odds with a film trying to make a serious big statement where the message about corporate ruthlessness and community gentrification is co-opted as part of Rock’s stand-up material.
		Rock’s live-wire yoyo performance at least creates a spark of energy at the center of the film that enervates a story that would otherwise be showing its considerable age.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/downtoearth01.htm (615 words)

	Chris Rock Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The struggling comedian he plays in the romantic comedy Down to Earth, which he also co-produced and helped adapt from the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, is somewhere in between.
		The film shows flashes of the incendiary comic that he is but also focuses on the kinder, gentler side of Rock.
		The film has fun with the notion that it's not acceptable for white people to rap.
	www.gaylmurphy.com /interviews/mister_showbiz/features_chris.htm (1141 words)

	Nights And Weekends - Down to Earth Review
		In this remake of the 1978 film, Heaven Can Wait, Rock plays Lance Barton, a determined young comedian who’s accidentally dragged off to heaven forty years before his time.
		Wellington’s family and colleagues are stunned to see the change in him as he becomes more charitable — and much more attracted to rap music.
		To their surprise, he even buys a comedy club — so he can practice his act.
	www.nightsandweekends.com /article.php?acode=NW0200008 (165 words)

	Heaven Can Wait (1978) Movie Details ~ Cast and Crew, Trailer, Pictures, Synopsis, Release Date - RopeofSilicon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Light, breezy, with not a mean bone in its body, Heaven is based on the 1941 film Here Comes Mr.
		Beatty is wonderfully daft and innocent as Joe, Jack Warden is on top of his form as Joe's trainer Corky, and Julie Christie appears to be playing a diaphanous summer dress.
		Great comic relief is provided by Dyan Cannon, Charles Grodin, and the notion that the 1978 Los Angeles Rams could go to the Superbowl.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /movies.php?id=925 (180 words)

	USATODAY.com - Actress Cannon suffers smoke inhalation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Peart said the cause of the fire was under investigation.
		Cannon was featured in last year's film, Kangaroo Jack, and starred with Warren Beatty in the 1978 hit film Heaven Can Wait.
		She is among a number of Hollywood actors and directors who live in the building.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-04-05-dyan-cannon_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA (281 words)

	Urban Cinefile Feature
		In this remake of Warren Beatty’s 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, Lance Barton (Chris Rock) is an aspiring stand up comedian accustomed to being booed off the stage by the notoriously critical audiences of the Apollo Theatre.
		Things for Lance go from bad to worse when he’s hit by a truck and sent to heaven before his time.
		Just when I thought Evolution had the worst film of the year award in safe keeping, along comes this dead duck reworking of Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).
	www.urbancinefile.com.au /home/view.asp?a=5107&s=Reviews (356 words)

	Angels on Film: 1940's - 1950's
		An aviator is guided through battle and romantic troubles by an angel who is a deceased WWII pilot.
		A young prizefighter is accidentally killed in a plane crash due to a bureaucratic mix-up in heaven and, in a heavenly attempt to rectify the situation, is returned to earth as a soon-to-be millionaire.
		A band trumpeter dreams he is Anthanael, an archangel who is to blow the note bringing the end of the world at midnight of the Last day.
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	Heaven Can Wait DVD at Video Universe
		Co-directors Buck Henry and Warren Beatty both made their film directing debuts with "Heaven Can Wait." Remake of "Here Comes Mr.
		"...HEAVEN CAN WAIT is an outstanding film....[The] entire cast is excellent....[The] script and direction are very strong, providing a rich mix of visual and verbal humor..." -- Murf., Variety
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	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/1137839/a/Heaven+Can+Wait.htm (441 words)

	Heaven Can Wait movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
		For complete review and film details, click here..
		Jordan (Mason) realizes the mistake, Joe is returned to Earth but it's in the body of a wealthy industrialist who's about to be murdered by his unfaithful wife Julia (Cannon) and his nervous secretary, Tony (Grodin).
		Not to be confused with the 1943 film of the same name.
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	Writer Info
		I have a broadside from Buffalo Vortex, a pamphlet from xtant books, and can also be seen at www.trifectapress.com, in one of the "Three Poems" books series.
		Selected works can be viewed at www.geocities.com/annlederer She is employed as a hospice visiting nurse in Kentucky.
		You can find a list of some of his work that has appeared on the web here[www.hermegasmica.org.uk/list.htm].
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	Down To Earth movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		When I first learned that comedian Chris Rock would be starring in a remake of the 1978 film "Heaven Can Wait", I had my suspicions.
		The film was directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, whose "American Pie" was a surprise box-office hit, injecting a routine comic premise with some outrageous bits of humor in a manner similar to the Farrelly brothers.
		This site has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film owners of Down To Earth and intellectual copyright holders of the movies mentioned herein and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/d/downtoearth.htm (537 words)

	Harry Segall Papers
		In 1936 he moved to RKO Radio Pictures where he wrote screenplays for films such as Outcasts of Poker Flat, based on a story by Bret Harte.
		Jordan, starring Robert Montgomery, based on Segall's play Heaven Can Wait.
		A 1978 film version of Heaven Can Wait starred Warren Beatty.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/segall.html (749 words)

	Everything Movie:Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Among the film's many jokes is the fact that the only audible line in the movie is spoken by Marcel Marceau, the famous mime.
		Film titles, wherever possible are linked to the Internet Movie Database, unquestionably the most useful film resource on the Web.
		The movie was adapted by Elaine May, Warren Beatty and Robert Towne (uncredited) from the original stage play by Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall.
	www.mymoviecenter.com /guide/Movie.2.htm (1029 words)

	AllRefer.com - Warren Beatty (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Richmond, Va. An eminently bankable star, the handsome, charismatic, yet oddly elusive leading man made his film debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961).
		His reputation as a Hollywood Don Juan often overshadowed his considerable talents, which were nonetheless apparent in his next smash hit, Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which he also produced.
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