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...train was 34 minutes late, timing that in the end proved fatal. At 2:50 a.m. Amtrak's Sunset Limited reached the wood-and-steel span over Big Bayou Canot in Alabama. It had crossed the bridge dozens of times since its Los Angeles-to-Miami route was inaugurated in April. And so, with 210 people on board, it came confidently down the tracks -- and into the worst accident in Amtrak's 23-year history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death By Fire and Water | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...joke about X-rated action in Hong Kong movies, where the corpses pile up as artistically as in a Pilobolus production number. But Woo might have guessed that when he came to America to make the Jean-Claude Van Damme bayou thriller Hard Target, the gentlefolk on the Motion Picture Association of America's rating board would not be amused. They surely wouldn't think Woo's cult reputation as the world's most gifted director of rapier-edged action films (A Better Tomorrow, The Killer) entitled him to any special dispensation. So they saw Hard Target and sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Woo: The Last Action Hero | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...this case, Chance's bayou connection is of importance to the plot. The villains of "Hard Target" are a pair of arrangers who set up human hunting safaris along the lines of "The World's Most Dangerous Game." For a hefty price, the ultra-rich can get the high of manslaughter your basic street punk gets every week...

Author: By John Aboud, | Title: 'Hard Target' Misses The Great Action Mark | 8/20/1993 | See Source »

Luzon's family filed suit in November charging that Bean-Bayou had sex with Lozano and used unethical medical practices to regress him to the psychological level of an infant...

Author: By Julie-ann R. Francis, | Title: State Permits Harvard Psychiatrist to Practice | 3/31/1992 | See Source »

Their first number was "Working at the Carwash Blues," followed by a mellow version of "Blue Bayou...

Author: By Daniel E. Markel, | Title: Ménage a cappella: | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

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