Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some people are a little worried...and they go to extremes," Cargman said. "Some people bring roller blade wrist bands...
...presently working on a film called Devil's Own, co-starring Brad Pitt and directed by Alan J. Pakula, who also directed Ford in Presumed Innocent. He was an Academy Award nominee for best actor for his role in the movie Witness, and has also starred in the films Blade Runner, Patriot Games, The Fugitive and Clear and Present Danger. This year he played the male lead in a remake of the 1954 classic Sabrina...
...that one, he acknowledges it would generate less government revenue, which could mean either a higher deficit or even heavier spending cuts in such places as Medicare. Voters may end up liking the flat tax the way they like budget cutting, which makes them flinch when the blade gets close...
This is, or was, a true story, but invested as it is with relentlessly cliched emotions, it plays like cheap fiction. What a sometime visionary like Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) is doing mixed up with it is hard to fathom. Or maybe it isn't. In today's cautious Hollywood, a seasick Dead Poets Society probably looks daring...
...islands, ocean sunsets, shockingly powerful surf) and the human landscape (wet t-shirts, naked torsos, bulging muscles) are fun to look at. The storm scene, where several tidal waves bash the Albatross to bits, is fantastically directed. It is terrifying and electrifying, and not surprising from the director of "Blade Runner" and "Alien." However, Scott could have done without the lingering shots of the drowning victims...