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Already the press is getting used to the way the President-elect-at least before taking office-stays in seclusion, says nothing or prudently contents himself with brief, noncommittal, cameo appearances. In his silence, others, perhaps hoping to speak for him or eager to influence him, fill the gap. The sounds to be heard all over Washington are of trial balloons collapsing and the steady drizzle of leaks...
...woman searching for her daughter and asides for pinball and pool, the conclusion of Radio On strands the roving philosophical boy on a precipice where the car refuses to budge. Dedicated to the electronic age and Fritz Lang, the film also offers Sting, the Police singer, in a brief cameo, crooning tearfully as a garage attendant in love with Gene Vincent...
...Bolivian Repression" to a crowd of seven. Their roles called instead for sincerity. They had to convince the audience they were the good guys, but not so all-American as to lose their seedy believability. They are plot devices really, showing the film and then making a few cameo appearances in court. But if anyone is interested, their motivation, at least from the moment the district attorney said 'Stop!', was honest. They knew that if they showed the film they would be arrested. They didn't show it to make money. They made their decision knowing it would probably cost...
...Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight characters only make cameo appearances in Stomping Ground. They are the scenery Hamill uses to show off Tommy Ryan, a royal lowlife who took his business degree and put it to vicious use. Ryan uses his women--"A man needs sex, has to have his pipes cleaned"--and he uses his friends--saved from a service revolver-death by a giant sidekick, Ryan orders him and his fiancee killed the next day for fear they'll "sing." He is a nasty bastard--when his lover laughs at him, he leaves in a rage...
...says, "I wouldn't stop working for anything! But I'm very stubborn about parts. I am not going to sink into playing little old grandmothers, maiden aunts or cameos. If the audience sneezes or blinks in a cameo, you're gone." Davis underlines her words, punctuating with exclamation points and various marks that are not found in the grammar books. If she says no, she follows it with two or three others. In real life, as in the movies, she is almost never without a cigarette, which she uses like a baton to orchestrate her words...