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...GRIFTERS. Cold and merciless as an assassin's blade, this adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1963 novel traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening make two splendid carnivores; John Cusack, as the man trying to tame them, naturally gets devoured...
Still, for all its wit, the text (by John Weidman, Sondheim's collaborator on Pacific Overtures) has no obvious topical resonances -- and probably could not, given that the authors view assassination as arising from thwarted ambition rather than any ideology or cause. As satire, Assassins is pointless: it attacks people who have no defenders. As pop sociology, it makes points about fame, envy and media culture that were made far more richly in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves. One is left wondering -- not least because of an imagined conversation between a would-be assassin and composer Leonard...
...Brooklyn-born rabbi spent his life preaching a doctrine of intolerance, racial hatred and violent confrontation. Last week he became a victim of Jewish-Arab animosity himself when he was gunned down by an assassin in a New York City hotel. Charged with Kahane's murder was El Sayid Nosir, an Egyptian- born New York City maintenance worker who became a U.S. citizen in 1989. Nosir, who was arrested after he was wounded in a shoot-out with a Postal Service officer, is believed to have acted alone...
...surgery, and as if that were not threat % enough, Muslim terrorists are offering $100,000 for his life. Pope Leo returns from the operation like Lazarus from the dead. But he is a changed man, with plans to alter his church for the better. It is then that the assassin moves in for the kill. No one but West would dare to mix irony, suspense and faith -- and get away with...
...Arnold really Arnold, or is Arnold really someone else? Or does Arnold just think he's someone else? Total Recall quickly becomes a futuristic version of Robert Ludlum's spy classic The Bourne Identity, in which the protagonist may or may not be the world's most dangerous political assassin...