Word: circusing
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Throw in a white-water rafting sequence, a hungry wolf and a large number of runaway monkeys which have conveniently escaped from a nearby monkey-circus train wreck, and you get a movie that's a little too big for its diapers. Come on--a two-year-old who can take care of his newborn brother for a whole night, armed only with a diaper bag and his own wits? Even so, it might have worked out in the end, if the filmmakers hadn't insisted on combining "deeper issues" within the shell of this rollicking adventure...
...book. Bonfire captured the black comedy of American society and justice during the Me decade; the story of Sherman McCoy's encounter with Reverend Bacon and Henry Lamb presaged the Tawana Brawley-Al Sharpton scam with eerie accuracy. Given the book's success, one can understand the promotional circus surrounding A Man in Full, Wolfe's newest book, which earned the dapper author a spot on NBC's "Today" and the cover of Time Magazine...
...thug among bugs, and no ant dares stand up to him. But one little fellow, Flik (Dave Foley), a misfit with big ideas, decides to venture outside the colony and hire some tough guys to fight the grasshoppers. All right, the new hired guns are actually a troupe of circus performers with prima-donna dispositions and tender carapaces. But what Hopper doesn't know can't hurt the ants...
After failing to respect his office and resign after the details of his lies emerged in August, Clinton will not be impeached, by the looks of last week's circus of a House Judiciary Committee. At this point, we can either let the President get away with lying to a grand jury or shame him publicly...
...rushed in with an $800,000 lien against her; her current lawyers in Dallas, who had run up more than $1.5 million in legal costs, announced after fighting with husband Steve Jones and McMillan that they would quit the case; and Clinton's lawyers backed away from the whole circus. Things were stalled until last week when the newest Jones attorney, Susan's husband William McMillan, approached Bennett and agreed to put in writing that Hirschfeld's offer was off the table. The agreement says the $850,000 is the "sole consideration," meaning no other money is legally part...