Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...menacingly about their wicked ways. These are the only shots that have any passion invested in them. The rest of the film is all awkward maneuver, without wit or feeling. Screenwriters John Fasano, Jeb Stuart and Larry Gross labor to arrange a plausible reason to reunite Murphy's smooth crook, Reggie Hammond, with rough cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) and place them in the kind of violent situations and give them the kind of rude comic exchanges that made the original...
...legal issue is straightforward. "If the language is defamatory and may be proved false, it is plainly actionable," insists Milkovich's attorney, Brent English. Diadiun's supporters argue that making isolated facts in an article of opinion vulnerable to defamation damages would inhibit editorialists from arguing that a crook was wrongly found innocent, or sportswriters from criticizing questionable calls by umpires and referees. However, the Supreme Court -- reluctant to resolve the opinion-fact dilemma in the past -- could decide the case in a way that once again sidesteps the issue...
...from the British writer-director Peter Greenaway, who with The Draughtsman's Contract and A Zed and Two Noughts revealed his gifts as a creator of murals on the subject of ruthless gamesmanship. His stories are hot, his style cool. His new film is the tale of a vicious crook (Michael Gambon) who dines nightly at a posh restaurant with his gang and his luscious, abused wife (Helen Mirren). Her pleasures are furtive but sweet: between courses she tiptoes out of his sight and has lovely sex with another diner (Alan Howard). When the thief discovers them, there is hell...