Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CRIME The Man Hunt For Son of Sam Goes...
...lonely killer, cunningly carrying out his crazed sexual fantasies by coldly stalking female victims and killing them in the night, is a hackneyed figure of cheap thrill movies and crime pulps. But in New York, his existence is a chilling reality, terrifying hundreds of thousands of young women in and around the city, enraging public officials, and both fascinating and frustrating one of the nation's most sophisticated police forces. The elusive "Son of Sam," who skillfully wields a lethal .44-cal. Bulldog revolver, struck for the eighth time last week, slaying Stacy Moskowitz, 20, and blinding Robert Violante...
...lyricized Johnny Mercer 40 years ago in a sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles neighborhood of 250,000 people harassed by crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year eager to see such bits of Americana...
Unfortunately, La Grande Bourgeoise blunts this irony by masking the precise extent of each family member's guilt. The criminal and sexual involvements, including possible incest, are indicated in fragmentary, sometimes confusing glimpses and teasing hints. In trying to be both a crime puzzler and a cutting social study, the film ends up not quite as either. Yet, thanks partly to the powerful lyricism of its imagery, it fails on a higher level than many a glib little movie succeeds...
Together, Ochs and Van Anda made the Times a Victorian paradigm of probity and thoroughness, emphasizing diplomatic and national political reporting and eschewing titillating ac counts of crime and scandal. But not all crime and scandal...