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...nothing else, Robert Benton's film Twilight is an ode to a fading brand of screen legends. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, an alcoholic former detective in Los Angeles dependent on his employers, retired actors Jack and Catherine Ames (Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon). Harry becomes involved in a murder investigation after Hackman sends him to deliver a package to a mysterious woman. The essential features of film noir are in place in Twilight, which dutifully follows nearly every single convention of the genre. The inconsistencies in the film could be forgivable if the film had any dramatic urgency. Fortunately...
...much my talk that is tough as the stuff it deals with. But I'm not the town drunk. With the reputation you give me I'll be expected to drink everybody in Kansas City under the table and I can't do it--not me. THOMAS H. BENTON Kansas City...
Said TIME: "Tom Benton, who does know how to drink..." No town drunk does...
...year-old black youth named Eric McGinnis was found floating at the mouth of the St. Joseph River where it flows into Lake Michigan. How did Eric die? Accidental drowning? Racial murder? But in the "Twin Cities" on either side of the river--in the overwhelmingly black town of Benton Harbor, Mich., and in the overwhelmingly white community of St. Joseph--people's suspicions tend to be shaped by the folklores and assumptions that emerge from separate experiences, black and white...
...investigating the death of Eric McGinnis. In The Other Side of the River (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 317 pages; $24.95), Kotlowitz attempts a kind of narrative mediation, shuttling back and forth across the bridge between the white and black universes--the somewhat gentrified white St. Joseph and the dirt-poor Benton Harbor, with its drug gangs and the highest murder rate in the country...