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Meanwhile, the duke's courtiers conspire to abduct Gilda and carry her off to the palace. When Rigoletto finally finds his daughter again, seduced and deflowered, he swears revenge and hires a paid assassin, Sparafucile, to murder the duke at a wayside inn. As for the denouement, suffice it to say that Gilda, despite ample evidence of her lover's inconstancy, dies to save his life...but not before singing a last extended duet with her broken-hearted father...
Similarly, the well-known strains of "La donna e mobile" make a bizarre accompaniment to the spectacle of a nameless seductress striking the poses of a modern-day strip dancer. Crowning it all is the assassin, Sparafucile, clad in black leather oddly topped by a workman's cap: He signals all his stage exits by ceremoniously donning a pair of black shades...
...this riddle. He's not exactly a reliable witness. Last week his brother Jerry told the New York Times that a new trial is needed so that James Earl can "clear his name." That's not what Jerry told investigative reporter George McMillan, author of The Making of an Assassin: The Life of James Earl Ray, 21 years ago. According to McMillan, Jerry told him that on the morning of the murder, his brother telephoned him and said he was going to get "the big nigger" that very same day. Like his brother, Jerry later changed his story and claimed...
...find these sweet mixes of cunning and convention throughout The Long Kiss Goodnight, a sleepy title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side--her own macho twin--and uses it against those who made her what...
...give the film the old Grisham urgency, scripters William Goldman and Chris Reese add a pretty black woman (Lela Rochon) as Adam's helper, a conspiracy of old white guys, and an assassin who gets his due. All this proves is that the filmmakers couldn't trust in the potency of two good actors bringing life to a chat on death...