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...outset. Boorman creates just the right mood of mystery and high adventure. After the opening credits tell us that we're in The Dark Ages ("The Land was divided and with a King.") we're thrust into a bloody battle between small armies of knights on horseback. Their armor splattered with blood and mud, they fight against the background of a bright orange sky, the bloodshot sun hanging low. The strange atmosphere of unreality intensifies with the entrance of Merlin (Nicol Williamson) who emerges from the mist covered in black robes, his head adorned with a glistening silver skull...
...President climbed into his armor-plated black Lincoln limousine at 1:45 p.m. for the seven-minute drive to the Hilton. With him was Michael Deaver, his closest personal aide, Labor Secretary Ray Donovan and two Secret Service agents: Drew Unrue was driving, and Jerry Parr, chief of the presidential protection detail, sat in the right front seat. Following them in the motorcade was Presidential Press Secretary Jim Brady. Half an hour earlier, his deputy, Larry Speakes, had asked, "You going with the President to the hotel?" Brady's casual reply: "Yeah, I think I will." With other agents following...
After perfunctory haggling, we pile into a van for the next leg of the trip to El Arish. The tarmac has long ago been chewed up by Israeli armor. It leads to a moonscape of sand dunes that over the centuries has been traversed by Pharaonic armies, Roman legions, Crusaders and even Napoleon's troops. For vast stretches the only signs of life are camels and goats foraging for shrubs...
...Then, on Jan. 13 the Internal Revenue Service announced a grand jury had indicted Greene on charges of criminal tax evasion. Greene said he would mount a "crusade" against the IRS, and led a parade of 75 tax protesters through downtown San Francisco while wearing a suit of armor. Says he: "For years I have conducted my affairs in exactly the same way, having audits and settling my tax problems on a friendly basis. But as soon as I got a high profile, the IRS began what must have been a million-dollar investigation...
...ambitious little ingenue is still trying to advance her career by fair means or foul; Depardieu has to try to bed the costume designer; and Deneuve's attentions are divided between her inconvenient connubial obligations and her need to preserve her image and her threatened theater. Such preoccupations armor them against the ugliness of life under the Nazis. They will do what they imagine God put them on earth to do, which is to practice their...