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...awaits NBC?s counter offer, the issue for Geraldo isn?t money; it?s status: Fox is offering him an anchor role on a nightly news program, a temptation which NBC has thus far resisted. Whatever the outcome, Zoglin believes Geraldo?s ultimatum reflects a classic American tale: ?This is a guy who couldn?t get a network job ten years ago, so it?s a pretty dramatic comeback story.? Who said Kato Kaelin is the only one who owes his career...
Ultimately the third and most important act of One Night Stand comes off as completely implausible--despite Snipes's efforts to anchor the sketchy romance--because of the weak screenplay. In the opening sequence Figgis has Snipes directly addressing the camera as he walks through the streets of Manhattan on his way to see Charlie. This narrative device pops up sporadically in an effort to connect the sloppy narrative strands. The script was originally written by Joe Esterzhas (purveyor of such cinematic fool's gold as Basic Instinct and the infamous Showgirls), and it shows in some places (an especially...
...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 anchor Kevin Hollander (Alan Alda, in a stonier version of the egomaniacal media mogul he played in Crimes and Misdemeanors). The worldly, ambitious Brackett is earger to regain his position at the network. So when he finds himself locked in a museum with unstable gunman Sam Baily (John Travolta...
...again, a feat which requires some serious mid-movie plot engineering (up to this point, we've only seen him capitalizing on tragedy and weighing the pros and cons of seducing Lori). Halfway into the film, two wolfish network producers inexplicably show us a clip of Brackett and anchor Hollander on the site of a gruesome airplane crash. Shaken by the carnage he has just witnessed, Brackett explodes at Hollander's request for a gory description of the scene, humiliating his powerful colleague on national television and establishing himself as a sensitive man damaged permanently by the unholy forces...
Asano might have to do most of that scoring with blasts from the blue line. She and fellow defenseman Christie MacKinnon and Melissa Milbert will anchor a defensive unit which needs to contain opposing offenses for Harvard to be successful...