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...escape clauses, no soft or fanciful evasions of fate. Forced in anguish to abandon his real family for his Mob family--his wife, whose patience with his absences finally runs out, is very well played by Anne Heche--Brasco must ultimately betray his only real friend in the criminal clan, Al Pacino's very weary, very unsuccessful and finally very touching soldier, a man the movie makes much more appealing than the law-enforcement bureaucrats who show not an ounce of understanding, let alone compassion, for the soul Pistone-Brasco has shriven in their service...
Whites, who appear to be leftovers from McMurtry's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel, Lonesome Dove, are no less crude. The local Beck clan is ruled by an ancient maniac named White Sut, who keeps a sow bear on a chain and beats the animal daily with a fence post. One day the bear breaks the chain, pulls off White Sut's head, and leaves it in the middle of the main road. This is widely regarded as a good joke. So is a courtroom altercation (12 dead, including the judge) in which Zeke tries earnestly to kill another lowbrow Beck...
Keating now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, sheltered by a close-knit clan: his wife Mary Elaine, six children and 29 grandchildren. House hopping between his children's homes like a visiting relative, Keating recently left the villa belonging to one daughter and son-in-law and moved into the more modest home of another of his children in a working-class Phoenix suburb, a Gulliver at rest in a granddaughter's cramped bedroom...
...recent games, the student crowd at Bright Hockey Center has been noticeably scarce, but it shines in comparison to the slim-to-none clan present last night in Achilles Rink...
Another scion of the Douglas clan is in hot water. A car driven by Cameron Douglas, 17, Michael and Diandra's son, got into an accident with a Secret Service agent's car. The agent was then dragged by the teen's car when he reached in to grab the keys. "Anybody who's a parent knows how difficult and painful [this] is," said a family statement...