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...pornographer? The good people of Mississippi--all right, the bad white people--gave Byron De La Beckwith every benefit of the doubt in his 1964 trials for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Two hung juries and a quarter- century later, a Jackson prosecutor (Alec Baldwin, who's good in a tough role) reopens the case, goaded by Evers' widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg). He has a chance: this time the gabby, unrepentant Beckwith (James Woods) is facing a jury that is largely black...
...House of York. In a way, the film is a high-minded remake of Pacino's Heat: he's the sleuth chasing down a charismatic killer. It's also naive, wildly self-indulgent and weirdly mesmerizing. While Pacino wrangles the text with such fellow seekers as Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder, you get a clearer feel for the star than for the author. You come looking for Richard and find Al. "I don't like the word teach applied to this because I'm not a teacher," Pacino says. "But we hope to guide audiences into it without their even...
BORN: July 4, 1941, San Francisco EDUCATION: Willamette U, B.S., 1963 FAMILY: Wife, Shary Baldwin; one child RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: State legislator POLITICAL CAREER: Monterey County Board of Supervisors, 1975-81; California Assembly, 1981-93; U.S. House, 1993- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 122, Monterey...
BORN: Sept. 13, 1949, Cleveland EDUCATION: Baldwin-Wallace College, 1968-69 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Mayor POLITICAL CAREER: Brook Park city council, 1980-82; mayor of Brook Park, 1982-; sought Democratic nomination for U.S. House, 1992, 1994 ADDRESS: 6161 Engle Road, Brookpark, Ohio...
...reptilian agent, longs for his ex-wife, who has taken up with a female novelist--his love for her continues "to grow, like nails on a corpse"; Zev Turtletaub, a brutalizing, gay producer, fantastically successful, is developing a modern adaptation of Gogol's Dead Souls to star Alec Baldwin; casting director Sara Radisson-Stein gives birth to a son who is blind, and she writes moving letters to him ("I'm sitting beside you as I write; the faintest light falls upon your marzipan cheek. You're the sweetest plum..."), while her TV-producer husband descends into crack addiction...