Word: crowe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Staring Down Jim Crow...
...handful of U.S. recovery centers for prostitutes. As social-service and law-enforcement agencies have learned about its success rate and unusual approach in dealing with seemingly intractable clients, it has become a model for similar programs from Florida to Thailand. Nonetheless, just when it has so much to crow about, Genesis House finds itself in financial jeopardy. The loss of half a million dollars in federal funds this year has forced the agency into an unexpected scramble to maintain its programs; it has had to lay off about half its 25 paid staff members, and use of volunteers...
...cross that has the power to give him and his troupe of bloodsuckers the ability to walk in daylight, and now he's on the verge of finding it (how it has eluded him for one week, let alone six hundred years, is anyone's guess). In the meantime, Crow and Montoya rescue a prostitute named Katrina (Sheryl Lee) who was bitten by Valeck but not killed. It will be another 48 hours until she is fully turned into a vampire, and during that time she shares a telepathic link with Valeck that will allow Crow and Montoya to track...
...filled with an inner intensity that boils out onto the screen. Clad in a leather jacket and Ray Ban sunglasses, unflinching when an entire building blows up behind him, Woods brings the necessary mix of swagger, cool bravado, fearlessness and tightly-coiled anger to the role of Jack Crow. It's a good thing, too, since the supporting cast does not add much. Thomas Ian Griffith makes for a striking, if rather dull, villain, leering savagely but saying little of interest. Daniel Baldwin has a solid rapport with Woods and brings a rugged toughness to Montoya...
...only real tragedies occur when these physical actions distract the audience from the dialogue, as is the case with Celimene's famous portrait scene. Distractions from her audience and an intoxicated Alceste tend to draw attention from Celimene's speeches. Celimene's subsequent confrontation with the prudish Arsinoe (Catherine Crow) stands in marked contrast, since the characters receive the audience's full attention during one of literature's great cat fights...