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What you probably will never guess is that Angel Eyes is better than the plot makes it sound. Partly that's because the director, Luis Mandoki, who made the ghastly Message in a Bottle, balances the movie's sentiment with a good, tough view of a cop's life both on the job and (especially) off duty. He's good with the hard kidding in bars and junk-food emporiums. Mostly, though, the movie works because Lopez gives such a terrific performance. She's a vulnerable hard-ass, lonesome but damned if she'll admit it, forgiving in some relationships...
WEDNESDAY CARNEGIE HALL Trend watch: CIA series (three), Supreme Court dramas (two for midseason), cop-lawyer dramas (too, too many), new-reality shows (everywhere). CBS has big hopes for the Ellen DeGeneres comeback comedy and Richard Dreyfuss drama The Education of Max Bickford. She plays a gay woman; he plays a straight professor. We'll see how they fare, but the network wins hands down for its lavish party at Tavern on the Green, where ad execs nibble prawns and mash up next to Survivor 2's Amber Brkich to pose for Polaroids. No mangrove worms, alas...
...tricky question: If the proportion of Britons who bother to vote were to fall to the levels routinely seen in the U.S. - around 50% - would that make Britain a less democratic society than Italy? Here's another: If so, would that hurt Britain's economic prospects? The answer (a cop-out but true): it all depends. The interaction among elections, democracy and economic prosperity is complex. Elections can be wonderful manifestations of the human spirit: we all remember the photographs from 1994 of endless lines of black South Africans, standing patiently, ready to vote in the country's first free...
Robertson, 67, was a cop back in 1969. Last week, two days before he was arrested, he had just won a heated Democratic mayoral primary against a black challenger. He presented himself to police on Thursday (and is now out on $50,000 bail), yet he has refused to step down. He may once have been a racist, he says, but he is innocent of murder...
...antiheroes who survived Tabloid, Pete Bondurant and Ward Littell, are in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, to do damage control on the J.F.K. "whack" that they helped plan on the orders of their Mob overlords. Also flying into the city that afternoon is a Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow Jr., who has been paid $6,000 by casino operators in his hometown to kill a black pimp named Wendell Durfee. Bondurant and Littell strongarm Jack Ruby into shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, but Tedrow blows his murderous assignment during a fit of conscience. His scruples will diminish when he hooks...