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How dull life would be if the old height-sight gag had never been invented. This time it's BILLY CRYSTAL and GHEORGHE MURESAN (you can just call him George) who are making it tough for the cameraman to get a two-shot. Crystal and the Washington Bullets b-baller star in My Giant, a comedy about a venal theatrical agent and his discovery, the Romanian monastery caretaker with a gift for Shakespeare whom he discovers and drags back to America to get into the movies. Since Muresan doesn't speak much English, let alone Shakespeare, the two worked together for months before shooting, with Crystal recording Muresan's part on cassettes and the center listening to his lines on the bus between games. "I was like Jiminy Cricket, jumping up and down on his shoulder and in his head," says Crystal. It worked--maybe too well. Laments Crystal: "I ended up fighting for my life in every scene."