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...forgive a lot. Stallone, perfect as Rocky, here turns in an unconvincing performance at best. No midgets were assigned to play opposite him this time around, and he comes up looking awfully short; both Peter Boyle (his corrupt predecessor as F.I.S.T. president) and Brian Dennehy (the non-union employer whom Rocky arm-twists into embracing the concept of trade unionism) look as though they could throw Stallone right through the nearest window. Instead, we are led to believe that Stallone's rise to power in the union is somehow grounded in his unique persuasive rhetorical abilities. One problem, however: like...
...brother-in-law, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, whom he had once served as prime minister. While the king was abroad for medical treatment, Daoud and a group of military insurgents−including the then and still obscure Col. Kadir−overthrew the Zahir monarchy, which Daoud condemned as corrupt and ineffective. But the Zahir family kept a tight hold on the top jobs and other spoils of power, and this time Col. Kadir vowed to throw them out once...
...prospective law student, I was disappointed but not discouraged by what the future holds for lawyers in relation to reputation and ethics. Are lawyers corrupt? Possibly; but only as corrupt as we allow them to be for our own benefits...
...Harvard theater," a place for solid, interpretive performances of Shakespeare and other classics. When Cooper says "interpretive," he clearly means it--after all, Shakespeare's Viennese setting of the play has been switched to the nineteenth century, because Cooper feels it's a closer-to-home example of a corrupt society under a veneer of propriety such as that in which the play unfolds. Besides corruption, "Measure for Measure" deals with questions of power and politics, mistaken identity and the discovery of one's sexuality--a heady mixture, no doubt, no matter where it's set. At the Hasty Pudding...
...gloomy and absurdist, remained intact. As that film is available on TV and in memory's theater, there is no reason to try to duplicate it. There is absolutely no reason to rip Chandler's immortal gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, from his natural milieu, Los Angeles in its corrupt years as an emerging metropolis, and relocate him uneasily in, of all places, London...