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...CORN CAPO DWAYNE ANDREAS...
Soon she and her son are being stalked by the Teacher (Alec Baldwin), a sort of New Age hit man. She will, he insists, convince her panel to free the capo, or she and the boy will be killed. The Teacher wears his psychopathy on his sleeve as plainly as Annie wears her vulnerability, and he is also one windy dude. For a while you think maybe his plan is to bore her into submission to his evil will. ("All right. All right. I'll do anything. Just shut up about...
...Well, all right, you say--a feminist thriller. It's been done (by, among others, Ted Tally, the screenwriter of The Juror, who also wrote The Silence of the Lambs), but you still have to play by thriller rules. When, for example, Annie boldly sashays up to the Mafia capo to have a little chat, we need to understand how she knew he would be in this particular and peculiar place--a cemetery, not some social club in Little Italy--at just this moment. Or when the Teacher needs to car bomb the mobster's limousine, we need to have...
...next year in Seattle. The video server technology -- like similar highway efforts from Time Warner, Viacom, Bell Atlantic and others -- lets viewers retrieve programs, concerts and, for instance, watch a music video before buying CDs and concert tickets. TIME senior writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt says Microsoft's $8 billion capo, Bill Gates, is well positioned to repeat his software success in the next info revolution, and other giants want to do business with Gates. "Clearly Gates wants to do for television what he did for the computer industry," says Elmer-DeWitt. The marketplace is "in chaos and headed toward further...
...American soldier who had apparently killed himself in a mansion being prepared for Haitian dignitaries. Military police strung concertina wire in front of the white colonnaded Parliament, where the lawmakers are expected to vote on an amnesty for the military junta -- a key part of the quickie deal between capo Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and former President Jimmy Carter...