Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cinematic Dostoyevsky. The clues to this secret identity lie in his sudden alternations of mood between quiet and noisy desperation, his fascination with the moral force of the holy fool -- the part the director's graceful wife Miyamoto is essentially playing -- and, above all, his allusions to Crime and Punishment. As in the great novel, it is a tenacious detective's patience that forces the final confession a criminal requires for his soul's peace. But the entertaining dexterity with which Itami plays this potentially heavy hand is all his own, and strangely beguiling. He collects our interest, but charges...
Exhibit A is America's Most Wanted, the new Fox network series that tries to enlist viewers in tracking down criminals on the lam. Each half-hour episode showcases two or three crimes, with the emphasis on brutal rapes and murders. Witnesses and law-enforcement agents are interviewed, and the crime is shown in a dramatized "re-creation." Viewers are then urged to phone in any information on a toll-free hotline, while investigators stand by to pursue leads. Since its Feb. 7 debut, 13 suspects profiled on the show have been apprehended...
This is not the first time TV has ventured into real-life crime solving. NBC's occasional Unsolved Mysteries specials, for instance, have presented similar crime re-enactments (and helped catch five suspects). But doubtless, what makes America's Most Wanted the highest-rated show on the Fox network's schedule is the tabloid sensationalism of its crime dramatizations. The hand- held camera, slow-motion scenes of violence, and point-of-view shots of the victim cowering or the murderer attacking might have been lifted straight from Friday the 13th. Equally unsettling is the juxtaposition of these lurid minidramas with...
...these are youngsters who, by the time they reach puberty, have given up on the dream of leading normal lives free from crime and brutality. "The youth say, 'I'm going to live as good as I can today,' " says Bernard Parker, executive director of Operation Getdown, a Detroit community-service group. "They don't see their life continuing. They don't have any hope." They are unfazed by the notion that drug dealing could send them to prison or the grave...
...racetrack operator, last year won a $10 million judgment against Maine's Key Bank, as well as a $5 million loan. Ricci established that the bank's officers had wrongfully terminated his $1 million credit line because they believed an erroneous rumor that he was associated with organized crime. Meanwhile, savings and loan customers are suing thrifts for such transgressions as mortgage-processing delays...