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...camera, the city becomes a dizzying, constantly moving dance of light and shadow. Amazing visual moments abound: he first breathtaking glimpse of Seberg moving blithely down the center of a Paris boulevard, an exhilarating view of the city from the air, the famous closing scene where a back alley is transformed into an infernal stretching corridor. The jazz soundtrack provides striking accompaniment to these images...
...left it with the keys in the ignition in the largely working-class city of Compton, near Los Angeles. By 9 p.m., the Tays had begun to worry and called their son's friends looking for him. Just an hour later police found his stripped car in an alley. By this time the teenagers had gone their separate ways; Acosta and Kang were said to have turned up at parties later that night. It took the police three days to track the suspects down and arrest them...
LIKE A TIN PAN ALLEY TROUPER, ROSS PEROT HAS A craving for the limelight and for Larry King Live. His latest gig casts him as head of a new watchdog group, designed to badger Bill Clinton and Congress about federal spending and the deficit. Before a crowded Dallas press conference, a pleased Perot unveiled new versions of the old props -- the fiscal charts, an 800 number and TV commercials -- that helped him capture 19% of the vote in November. Then he regaled reporters (or at least himself) with a scratchy rendition of Patsy Cline's smash hit Crazy...
Limousines squeeze through the alley and roll to a smooth stop. Orange camera lights flare. Flashes pop. Cameras roll. The lieutenant governor steps out onto the pavement and quickly disappears behind the huddle of attendants in blue uniforms and "Blues Brother" name tags, as impatient guests stand in a purgatorial line. Half an hour later, burly Blues Brother John shepherds us into single file. By this time, the guests are at each others' throats. A woman, standing nearby, elbows in front of me, turns around, and says, "I must be in front of you. Because, you know, one person...
Interspersed among the songs is a series of phone conversations between Prince and an intrepid reporter named Vanessa Bartholomew, sportingly played by Cheers TV star Kirstie Alley. "Why do you pretend to be a maze?" she asks in exasperation. "I'm amazed at your beauty," Prince replies. But his real answer seems to be in the lyric of My Name Is Prince, in which he declares, "I know from righteous I know from sin/ I got two sides and they're both friends...