Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death penalty deters crime." According to this argument, criminals who would otherwise commit atrocious murders would refrain from such action out of fear of being put to death by the government. The electric chair, according to many death penalty proponents, will cast a long shadow of intimidation upon potential murderers...
...Mickey Rourke and Teresa Wright cannot be all bad. He's the only shyster in town who's willing to take a chance on young Rudy; she's his landlady who is nowhere near as ditsy as she looks. And like the rest of a constantly bestartling supporting cast, led by Jon Voight and Danny DeVito as deliciously disparate masters of legal sleaze, they're terrific. Another good rule is not to take Grisham novels as seriously as the writer does when you bring them to the screen, and Coppola fulfills that imperative too. This one is about...
...could have turned out to be an exercise in easy sentiment, easy to shrug off. But Frank Cottrell Boyce's script is carefully understated, and director Michael Winterbottom has achieved a remarkably seamless blend of fictional and factual footage. You gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral...
...deep breath and gave Bart what he wanted. Quick cuts, vapid veejays, silly game shows, Singled Out, the beach house--gone. In their place, the channel refocused its programming on music and news; showcased interviews with musicians broadcast live from a studio overlooking Times Square; and hired a new cast of serious, rock-minded jocks. To oversee the changes, it brought in Brian Graden, 34, the former Fox executive who commissioned the famously crude Christmas cartoon that became Comedy Central's hit, South Park. "There's more value on talent and substance now," says Graden. "The age of Madonna...
Screenwriter John Lee Hancock fuses Williams' four murder trials into one but is faithful to the local fauna: the gun-waving doyen, the man who walks an invisible dog, the voodoo priestess, the man haloed by horseflies. Eastwood has cast Williams' attorney as the trial judge and, as him(her)self, the Lady Chablis, a drag queen of note--one note--in a turn that will make no one forget Jaye Davidson...