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There is something wonderfully satisfying about a guilty pleasure. Whether it be a sleazy novel, Ace of Base, the tabloids, St. Elmo's Fire, Melrose Place, a brainless action movie or Baywatch, it's mighty fun to gorge on trashy entertainment...
This wouldn't be a problem if Mad City weren't such a character-driven piece. Echoing Billy Wilder's 1952 Ace In The Hole, the film aligns two distinct personalities--the hardened reporter and the simple, down-on-his-luck everyman--and pits them both against the senseless juggernaut of popular culture. "This movie is about people," Gavras says, and the people who star in it are indeed its finest assets. Dustin Hoffman plays Max Brackett, a hotshot national news reporter who has been demoted to a backwater affiliate station in northern California after a mysterious incident involving celebrity...
...guys misbehave regularly in crime novels. That's what bad guys do. But for the most part their villainies--tying nice girls to railroad tracks, playing poker with an extra ace--are elaborate setups, abominations staged by the author to make the good guys look good in the last chapter. This, of course, is what good guys do; they look good. And the bad guys go to jail or perdition...
...world remembers a President wrestling with this crucial decision, but what were the real reasons behind Kennedy's choice? Our book reveals he had an ace in his hand: U.S. technology had provided a way of locating the Soviet ballistic-missile and attack submarines. We believe Kennedy boldly used this knowledge to convince Khrushchev that he should back down. WILLIAM J. REED Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...
...retrospective show of the work of Robert Rauschenberg, which fills the uptown and SoHo branches of New York City's Guggenheim Museum and, as if that were not enough, the Ace Gallery in SoHo as well, is too big, too profuse, too sprawling--too damned much all round--to take in with any sort of ease. Curated by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, its bulk (some 400 works in all media) creates the fatigued impression that everything in Rauschenberg's vast and uneven output has been dumped into the hopper and left for the individual viewer to sort out. Which...