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Miami Bureau Chief Dick Woodbury got an entirely different reception from the Cubans of Little Havana. They not only plied him with home-cooked meals, café con leche and cigars, but insisted on telling their stories...
...street-wise ex-con who got a law degree in jail and now defends the poor and downtrodden. His legal methods are pushy, his language rough, but you can be sure he gets results for his clients. Smartly enough, the series' creators have also provided the hero with a perfect foil: Patrick O'Neal as an elegant corporate lawyer who takes Kaz into his firm. Whenever it seems that Leibman might burn a hole in the tube, Old Pro O'Neal trots out to cool things down...
...beginning was the English Department. And the English Department created the criticism and the con-centration, and all the requirements of the field and all the thesis of the air. And the English Department looked down and saw that it was good. Then the English Department looked about, and saw vast ignorance among the people concerning the English Bible. So the English Department created the Bible requirement and gave the people English 13 so they might fulfill it and be saved. And the English Department formed Morton Bloomfield out of the dust of Widener, and of the dust of books...
...Laura and a detective (Tommy Lee Jones), is set to violins. The acting is out of a '50s B movie. In the effort to create as many suspects as possible, Kershner has directed most of his cast to come on as twitchy psychopaths. Brad Dourif, playing an ex-con chauffeur, manages to seem even more bonkers here than he did as an inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...Con Brio, Friday and Saturday nights at 1369 Jazz Club...