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...Brooks is but one painful example of talent going to waste: it's another case of good actors trying their damnedest with bad lines. Kyra Sedgwick, James Spader, Albert Brooks and Helen Mirren are all fine, subtle performers; here, they are relegated to stale, two-dimensional stereo-types. Lumet may as well have subtitles put in key scenes: "This man is evil, because all he cares about is money. This man is good, because he really cares about making people better...
...rough month ahead for those of us at Dartboard. Some of us will be up early tomorrow morning, doing our damnedest to prove we are skilled in analytic and logical reasoning on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). Others will find themselves with hours of circle-filling-fun later this month at the GRE's. But the one thing we all have in common is that none of us will be taking these tests at Harvard. That's right, well before eight o'clock in the morning we'll be heading off to other local colleges-UMass Boston, Northeastern...
...couldn't even tell you who shot Mr. Burns, and yet all month long I've been doing my damnedest to watch every Simpsons episode I can find on the 50-some-odd channels the folks at the cable company pump into my house. What's more, lately I've been given to wondering how I was able to live so long without Sportscenter. Finally, and perhaps most embarrassingly, I seem to be becoming some kind of Jim Lehrer Newshour groupie...
...answers are coherent but indifferent. Trying to tease something out of him, I lay out a scenario: Dole wants to crack down on marijuana, making it harder to get and more risky to possess. Clinton, on the other hand, sounds like he's going to do his damnedest to take cigarettes out of the hands of kids. I tell Dave people like him need to pick their poison, so to speak. It's pot or cigarettes, Dole or Clinton...
...hard to believe we were so stupid. But we'll do our damnedest to convince you we were exactly that stupid. It's better than having you believe we were misusing the FBI to help us smear top Republicans...