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...compared with the 24-hour Atlanta Check Cashers outlet down the road, which charges a 3% fee to cash a payroll check, Banuestra is a bargain, taking just 1%, or $3, out of his weekly pay. He doesn't even consider the Wachovia bank across the street on Jimmy Carter Boulevard. It closes too early, and more important, makes potential customers like Alvarez-Rosales jump through too many hoops to get service...
...assigned to guard the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. against a death threat by Hong Kong triads. The ambassador is murdered by an assailant named Kenji (Hiroyuki Sanada), whom Lee tracks down but can't bring himself to kill because decades ago they were in the same orphanage. Detective Carter (Tucker), demoted to traffic cop, hooks up with Lee and wheedles his way into a trip to Paris, where an international dignitary (Max von Sydow) has given them the mission to hunt down the triad gang and its secret boss. Anyone who's seen von Sydow in Three Days...
...Local Parisian color is provided by some unusual suspects: director Roman Polanski as a police inspector with a sideline in proctology; Noemie Lenoir as a chanteuse whom Carter has a dalliance with before suspecting that she's a female impersonator ("I went to second base with a man! It's The Crying Games! I'm Brokeback Carter!"); and actor-director Yvan Attal (My Wife Is an Actress) playing a cab driver who switches from anti-Americanism to pro-Hollywoodism once he becomes embroiled in one of the Lee-Carter chase scenes. "Now I know what...
...takes on the loser. Punches are fine, but no closeups of broken jaws; throw a guy off a rooftop, but don't show him landing impaled on an obelisk. Rush Hour 3 observes these niceties while twitting another MPAA rule: no four-letter words. In an early scene where Carter is interrogating a French-speaking thug through an interpreter, he gets exasperated and shouts: "You tell this piece of s-word that I will personally f-word him up." Excellent solution...
...told us that Graham, a registered Democrat all his life, wasn't complicated once you realized he was actually just a Republican. But that's too simple an explanation. Graham liked all the Presidents and regarded them first and foremost as his friends--with the intriguing exception of Jimmy Carter. The fellow born-again Southern Baptist was the only President ever to organize a local Graham crusade. But on the heels of Graham's crushing experience with the Nixon Administration, the evangelist recalibrated his relationship with the White House and kept his distance. "I looked on Carter as the President...