March 1 1996 

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL, directed by Jon Avnet, opens nationally. John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion's long gestating, hard-edged screenplay recounting the tragic, short-lived career of female news anchor Jessica Savitch gets morphed into a glossy, generic rom-com awkwardly pairing a youthful Michelle Pfieffer with an ageing Robert Redford.

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