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...should be scrapping with Inglis at all. He has done everything a Senator is supposed to, climbing the ladder of seniority over 32 years to become one of the most powerful in his party. He helped rewrite the nation's telecommunications laws and is among the country's most ardent advocates of fair trade. Most of all, though, he has pulled off the trick of earning a reputation as a fiscal conservative while delivering federal goodies to South Carolina: money to deepen the Charleston Harbor, new veterans' clinics and a map full of roads and bridges. "Whenever anybody needed anything...
While gubernatorial candidate Dean E. Cook is an ardent Libertarian, heavily involved in the party and committed to the party's standard of keeping government out of personal lives, Congressional candidates Philip Hyde III and Anthony A. Schinella chose their affiliations more haphazardly...
...saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast and their moving, spirited performances. Danny Glover, who is pretty much only seen in the increasingly silly Lethal Weapon movies these days, delivers an ardent reminder of what a fine actor he really is. His portrayal of Paul D is vivacious, endearing and painfully vulnerable. Kimberly Elise gives a burning, multifaceted performance as Denver. She conveys so much with one facial expression that she is able to counter with relative ease Thandie Newton's grating-at-best turn as Beloved. Oprah Winfrey, who snatched up the rights to Morrison's book...
...evocative way with words. She could make a toothpaste jingle sound poignant--and the songs on Way Back to Paradise are anything but mindless tunes. Jason Robert Brown's Stars and the Moon tells the wry tale of a material girl who brushes off a series of poor but ardent suitors only to learn that yachts and champagne aren't everything; Ricky Ian Gordon's Dream Variations is a laconic, sweet-and-sour setting of the famous poem by Langston Hughes that ends with "Night coming tenderly/ Black like...
...comeback after suffering a long imprisonment, to fight a resurgence of tyranny in old, Spanish-controlled California. In the process he recruits a young, nimbler apprentice, Alejandro (portrayed by Antonio Banderas), who's not afraid of acting a little dumb until his mentor smartens him up, cools his ardent blood and teaches him the skills that make him worthy of wearing the black mask of the gallant outlaw...