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...about to be blown to shards, klutzy Assistant D.A. Tom Logan (Redford) and plucky Lawyer Laura Kelly (Winger) find a forklift tractor (and the keys), jump on, start it and crash through a metal door, all in five seconds. Logan, who has made tabloid headlines by being caught in bed with a spacey artist (Daryl Hannah) the night she is supposed to have killed her ex-lover, is allowed to act as one of her attorneys at the murder trial. Finally, the real murderer forces Kelly and the artist to bang noisily on a sculpture while dozens of guests attend...
...Some of the capital went for bail money when his actors got arrested. Mackenzie's "actors" deserve medals for not acting, for revealing so much of themselves, as Yvonne does in one of her most plaintive monologues: "Y: I used to pray every night before I went to bed and asked for something that I wanted, and I never got it, or it seems like my prayers were never answered. So I just gave up,. And now I don't hardly go to church and don't say my prayers sometimes. But I haven't started drinking or hanging around...
...chief exponent, or perp, is Streep. She's lively and limber, executing a saddle jump to gymnastic perfection while bouncing on a bed and singing Dancing Queen. But she also spends a long part of the film in a strenuous simulacrum of pleasure. She has the laughs the way a consumptive has the coughs. You worry that when Streep dies and goes to Actor Heaven, the recording angel will say, "On this scale we have decades of transcendent performances, and on this scale, that Mamma Mia! thing. Begone...
There is, of course, an argument for experience, especially when the issues are complex and the special interests cunning. House Speaker Tip O'Neill used to grumble about the "bed wetters," the fresh-faced Democrats who hadn't been around long enough to know how to resist pressure from the Reagan White House. There's a reason roughly half the people who write the laws have law degrees. But surely there's value in having some teachers as legislators when No Child Left Behind is on the table, or some doctors and nurses on the committees dissecting health-care proposals...
...Steve Kurtz awoke to find his wife Hope dead in their bed. But that was only the beginning of his ordeal - within hours, he found himself at the center of a bioterrorism investigation even Kafka would have dismissed as too paranoid a tale to be believed. Kurtz called 911 after he saw that his wife wasn't breathing. Paramedics rushed to the couple's three-bedroom home north of downtown Buffalo, and police soon followed...