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Derrick (panting as he and Craig lug the chest-o-mud up the stairs): "Man, I don't remember this trunk being so damn heavy. This is heavy as shit...
...They reveal terrific artists -- Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers -- in their early prime, making the music that made them famous. The films have the audacity of the talkies? youth: the films are filled with racial caricatures, and you?ll hear ?hell? and ?damn? in the 1929 Makers of Melody. But the tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. They embody the spirit of the Hollywood musical at its primitive best: Have fun; give...
There is some consensus here, and indeed throughout Hutchinson, about what should be done: "Kill the damn things." But the men at Skaets disagree somewhat on tactics. Earle Smith, a "semiretired" carpet retailer, proposes opening the fairgrounds to hunters and charging "a dollar a dog." Bill Moran, a fully retired manager of a grain company, thinks they could be a fine addition to the menu at Skaets. And Don Collins Jr., who still has a few years before retirement, looks through the window at the cold rain and suggests that the offending rodents might make excellent earmuffs...
...Cruise Control, Batman & Robin, Face/Off and Men in Black--the big films look like instant remakes, retreads or reductios ad absurdum of last Friday's film, which wasn't all that hot either. Some of the movies have incidental felicities, and, to abort all suspense right now, Face/Off is damn fine. But in sum, these films offer evidence that the action-adventure has reached a point of exhaustion. Seen as one 12-hour epic, this multiplex six-pack moves less on cruise control than on automatic pilot. This is zombie entertainment: cinema with motor skills but a dead brain...
...seen and "unceremoniously ushered" the civilians away from the site. And why hadn't Anderson ever told his story before? As he grew into manhood, he explains, he "tucked" away the memory. "I learned you just don't go up to the average person on the street and say, 'Damn, know what...