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...official probe of the September 28 murder of the Mexican ruling party's No. 2 man claims to have unearthed evidence of conspiracy among elected officials resistant to reforms. Late yesterday, the Attorney General's office in Mexico City announced that a congressional aide accused his boss, fugitive Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, of having plotted the killing of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Secretary-General Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu "by orders of the group" to which Rocha belonged. The news, a rumor for days before it broke, has rocked Mexican political establishment: the aide's confession also suggests the existence...
...Simpson's defense team is using its legal muscle to find out why juicy snippets of information about their client end up nightly on America's TV screens. They're forcing a reporter for KNBC-TV, her boss, the Los Angeles police chief and the spokesman for the department to testify in court under subpoena. KNBC-TV, you recall, was the station that reported DNA tests linked blood on O.J.'s socks to that of Nicole Simpson. KNBC-TV reporter Tracie Savage later said her sources provided inaccurate information. Judge Lance Ito will take up the issue of leaks tomorrow...
...henchmen's breakfast is interrupted by a thrill-crazy young couple (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) staging a holdup. He and Vincent go to see Marsellus, who is telling an aging boxer named Butch (Willis) to throw his next fight. Later, Vincent buys some potent heroin, then escorts the boss' sexy wife Mia (Thurman) for a toxic night on the town. Vincent gets out the needle. Butch double-crosses his boss, wins the fight and plans to skip town, but soon must decide whether to save Marsellus' life at the sure risk...
...measure of director Michael Ritchie's deftness that he gets the right kind of laughs from the device. Ritchie avoids the kind of sentiment that so often encrusts tall sporting tales, and even gets a funny performance out of baseball's very own Kong, Yankee boss George Steinbrenner. The Scout is the best comedy-fantasy about baseball ever made, which goes to show that if Hollywood keeps trying, eventually someone will get it right...
...moment doesn't last long, though. Instead of exploring the capacity of heterosexual woman to accept their male cross-dressing companions, "Just Like a Woman" spins off into a boring subplot about Gerald's corrupt boss...