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Like the jazz it depicts, "Kansas City" comes across as an effortless delight guided by an underlying discipline. This fine work lives and breathes before our eyes in the hands of master director Robert Altman, who uses the film less as a conventionally plot-driven vehicle than as a slow Sunday ride through whatever catches his fancy. The result is a movie that succeeds on many levels: as a historical snapshot of a vibrant city, as a tragic dual portrait of two women from different walks of life, even just as a scrapbook of moments, riding on jazz rhythms...
...main plot thread off which Altman works involves Blondie O'Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a punchy, fast-talking gal looking to get her husband Johnny (Dermot Mulroney) back from a gangster, Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), whom he foolishly irked. Kidnapping Carolyn Stilton (Miranda Richardson), the doped-up wife of a prominent politician, arises as the logical solution: she hopes to force Mr. Stilton to sic the police on the gangster...
...latest--and most impressively pedigreed--of these new series is ABC's Gun, which starts on April 12 and runs in Relativity's old time slot (Saturdays, 10 p.m. EDT). Conceived by director Robert Altman, Gun aims to follow the life of a single pistol--an intriguing premise until you realize that no single episode will have any relation to the last...
...then arbitrariness is the show's only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel for no explicable reason. In some ways, Gun resembles a camp version of Altman's Short Cuts. Like that film, it offers vignettes of the striving and the desperate. With Gun, though, viewers are left with characters like Lilly (Rosanna Arquette), a lonely housewife prone to doing suggestive aerobics alone in her living room and whining as though she's ingested too much Slim-Fast. Chuck Norris would at least know enough to ease the pain with a chili...
...screen, shouldn?t he have honored their courage?and, yes, inventiveness?with something other than cliches?" TELEVISION . . . GUN: The latest?and most impressively pedigreed?of this spring's slate of cop shows is ABC?s 'Gun,' which starts on April 12 (Saturdays, 10 p.m. ET). Conceived by director Robert Altman, Gun aims to follow the life of a single pistol?an intriguing premise until you realize that no single episode will have any relation to the last. But then arbitrariness is the show?s only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel...