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...will be tested with the release of Sleeping with the Enemy, a subordinary thriller with the requisite tingles and cheats expected of a woman-in-jeopardy melodrama. Here Roberts is Laura Burney, abused wife. Her husband Martin (Patrick Bergin) oozes empathy and flares into brutality. If she does anything wrong, or nothing wrong, he will beat her into zombie silence. So Laura fakes her own death and flees to small-town safety in the care of a solicitous drama teacher (Kevin Anderson). But Martin is as tenacious as he is possessive. The Beast will find Beauty. And Laura will again...
Arrogance seems to have made Gotti careless. In two previous trials, prosecutors relied heavily on tapes made from bugs planted in the Ravenite club, his main Manhattan base. They had also recorded conversations from his neighborhood headquarters, the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club, across the East River in Queens. Although the tapes were so noisy and scratchy that jurors had great difficulty deciphering the dialogue, Gotti obviously knew that his haunts were wired. Even a public telephone in one of Gotti's favorite Little Italy restaurants, Taormina, has a sign saying, WARNING -- THIS PHONE IS BUGGED...
...Mountains of the Moon, John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen) is just a few days out on his first trek into the wilderness when he gets a spear through his cheek, and a messy, bloody business it is. Before the movie ends, his partner, the celebrated Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin), suffers a vividly portrayed case of cellulitis as well as a degrading imprisonment by a tribe not thrilled at being discovered by civilization. The movie strongly hints at a homosexual bond between the two men -- at least until they fall into an unseemly squabble over who actually discovered the source...
Americans can now choose from an astonishing 235 brands, compared with 152 only seven years ago. "I worry about the consumer being overwhelmed by the selection," says Joseph Doyle, an analyst with the Wall Street firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. Notes John Bergin, president of the McCann-Erickson/USA advertising agency, with tongue firmly planted in cheek: "We certainly are quenching the thirst needs of Americans...
...Bergin, on the other hand, suffers from the familiar tendency of hostages to fall in love with their captors. He writes: "If the football captain never spoke to me (why should he?), that did not prevent me from cheering madly for him in the Bowl." And with astonishing sympathy, he concludes...