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...through the series. McCafferty uses his songs, such as “Ready To Take A Chance Again” and “Can’t Smile Without You” as a metaphor for Jessica and Marcus’s relationship. But bringing in a Vegas-bound tour group of elderly Manilow fans and having them stay at the same hotel as Jessica and Marcus is a quirk in the story that strays close to too convenient to ring true.Suspension of disbelief at his repeated appearances aside, the choice of Barry Manilow as a motif works toward...
...four-part swansong, a requiem to that free-love-meets-free-spending materialistic innocence that represented life in early-80s L.A. as sung by a film producer, his estranged wife and mistress, a doorman and his depraved uncle, and a rock star and his addictions. The movie is bound together—as was the era—by the young, blonde, tan, wealthy children of the Zeitgeist.A fifth storyline, about a literal nightclub vampire, was excised from the film after shooting had already wrapped, an apt illustration of what makes the finished film so (forgive the pun) toothless. Ellis?...
...process began in December 2001, when the DOD's office of general counsel asked the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), which oversees the SERE program, about detainee "exploitation." Within a few months, SERE trainers were training military interrogators bound for Gitmo. (The JPRA would also pass on its expertise...
...principle “that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law,” and the Uniform Code of Military Justice requires American soldiers to disobey unlawful orders. While CIA agents are not bound by the UCMJ, the principle is the same: Individuals are responsible for their own actions...
...exports, 400,000 migrants and an estimated $30 billion worth of narcotics every year. But in the past 12 months, this special relationship has been seen as more blight than blessing, with falling remittances, tumbling trade and an increasingly bloody war over the north-bound drug business. Many here are looking for the U.S.'s new and novel leader to revive the North American partnership. (See pictures of Obama's trip to Europe...