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...Orleans gangster (Jeroen Krabbe) while keeping tabs on the gangster's moll (Kim Basinger). O.C., the star goes to New Orleans to hunt down the bad guy, gets hassled by the local police and, O.C., falls in love with the moll while they dodge crackers and crocodiles in bayou country. Bullets perforate every bit player in the Vieux Carre, O.C., but keep missing the star. Floorboards creak at propitious moments; tinderbox hotels refuse to go up in flames; heroine watches helplessly as hero and villain fight to the death...
...into the rhythms of Waits' disk-jockey patter, Benigni's fractured English and Lurie's sullen explosions, you may find Down by Law mildly ingratiating. Otherwise you will sympathize with the jailbirds as they mark off the days in their cell. The markings, of course, are gorgeous: Chinese calligraphy, bayou-style...
With 13 other candidates going up against Moore, winning the seat on the first round will be tough. His chief rival is Democrat John Breaux, 42, a handsome seven-term Congressman from Cajun country down in the state's southwestern bayou parishes. Moore and Breaux have all but ignored other contenders, like State Senate President Sammy Nunez, choosing instead to turn their fire on each other. Moore is the solid front runner. He has presented himself as a staunch Reagan Republican, appealing to conservative Democrats disillusioned by their party's mismanagement of state affairs. "The people in this state know...
...Lisa Bonet is best known as the spunky, spaniel-eyed daughter Denise on The Cosby Show. But this summer Bonet, 18, wanted a change of image. So she made Angel Heart, with Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. In the movie, due for release next March, she plays a bayou-country fieldworker who has an infant son -- and incidentally is a voodoo priestess. "Not a conventional teenager," allows Bonet, who drew on her Creole roots. "I had to do a lot of self- exploration." Bonet was not moved to any self-exploration by the news that the latest Harper...
...filled week, the Harvard men competed in a nonscoring dual meet against Rice, and the women ran in the Bayou Classic against squads from the South-western Conference...