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...information was for Altman's ears only. But Hanson maintains Altman directed her later that day to inform Nussbaum of the development. Hanson says she complied two days later, then wrote a memo dated Sept. 30 in which she reported the contact with Nussbaum and associate White House counsel Clifford Sloan. Altman does not recall telling Hanson to brief Nussbaum and says he doesn't recall receiving a follow-up memo Hanson addressed to him. Republican Senator Bond and some of his colleagues simply don't believe Altman. "He's clearly not telling the truth," says Bond...
...roadster fails to start. Launching instead into an expatiated look at the Sway family and their unsolicited entanglement with the local authorities, a New Orleans crime family, and ultimately the federal justice system, Schumacher delivers a slowed-down, scaled-down production which loses its inspiration almost as soon as Clifford takes his own life...
...Jerome Clifford's creative death scene in the opening chapter seems tantamount to Grisham confessing that nothing more can be written about the tainted attorneys of "The Firm" and the crime network they represented; indeed, the author labors nearly 564 pages convincing us he is not simply writing another legal thriller. Instead of the brilliant young lawyer, Mitch McDeer (played by Tom Cruise in "The Firm"), the novel's hero is a cigarette-smoking 11-year-old; in place of the Firm's boardroom, the setting is working-class Memphis. Nevertheless, the similarities remain, and Grisham ultimately leaves the reader...
Barry "the Blade" Moldanno (Anthony La Paglia), the feared mobster whose knife inspires Jerome Clifford to commit suicide before Barry can kill him is, as his Mafia-kingpin uncle says, "stupid." Reducing criminal intrigue to a new level of sleaze and triteness, Moldanno adds almost nothing to a plot which pertains to him only in the murder he committed before the film begins...
...from which some of its story seems to be based). Schumacher opts instead to leave his resolution off-screen, giving us the satisfaction of neither Foltrigg's victory nor Moldanno's arraignment. Even the Sway's story is questionably resolved; Ricky, who lapsed into a traumatic coma after witnessing Clifford's suicide, remains comatose during the closing credits--perhaps symbolic of the film itself...