Word: cops
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...Rice concludes her trip in Luxembourg, will she have made the case that Europe and the U.S. are back on the same wavelength? Not likely. There are plenty of other issues on which Europe and the U.S. differ. Topping the list: Iran. Britain, France and Germany are playing good cop, trying to persuade the Islamic state not to use its nascent civilian nuclear program as a cover for bombmaking; Washington is playing bad cop, making not-so-veiled threats that the U.S. or Israel could strike. So far, there's been little sign that good cop and bad cop...
...adult, by Hill Harper). She saves him here too--from the narration's sentimental bent--through Merkerson's strong, smart and earthy performance. Nanny is essentially a professional crisis manager, defusing fights, shooing off troublemakers and healing broken souls with sugar and steel. She's part social worker, part cop and all heart...
...schedules have been littered with failed attempts at spooky, paranormal series: Millennium, The Others, Miracles, Wolf Lake and more. (The exceptions, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joan of Arcadia and HBO's Carnivale, have been cult hits or cable shows.) Viewers, meanwhile, gravitated to reality shows and firmly realistic cop procedurals...
Screenwriter James DeMonaco peoples the precinct with a Grand Hotel's worth of character clich??s: the grizzled patrolman (Brian Dennehy) who's ready to retire; the woman cop (Drea de Matteo) who can out-tough the macho men; the motormouth con (John Leguizamo) who sees ways of escape in the encroaching anarchy. This bunch could start a brawl in a bus line. But they need to become a community fast to fight an enemy whose siege tactics are as unfathomable as they are unstoppable...
...broke a few rules, as when he put a cute 10-year-old in and out of peril and then--bang!--killed her off, but his style is classic: lots of three-actor medium shots and hardly a raised voice or drop of sweat in all the bombarding. The cop (Austin Stoker), the killer (Darwin Joston), the woman (Laurie Zimmer)--all are professionals, focused on outliving a hard night...