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...fine shoulders can carry every burden but this picture. Even she is crushed by its lumbering platitudes, its obvious ironies, its pacing mired in quicksand. Maria Luisa Bemberg (who directed a fiery Oscar nominee, the 1984 Camila) never secures her characters in the larger landscape. The Peronistas stay offscreen, darn the luck, while the upper-crusters sit idly by, aspiring to Coward's wit and Chekhov's melancholy. Ennui finally devours them all, long after it has consumed the viewer. By Richard Corliss...
...allegations that he was involved with the private funding of the contras through contacts with a former CIA agent called Max Gomez. I feel pretty darn strongly about this because I've heard these rumors and I've been a victim of some of them. I've told the truth, and yet I continue to read these stories. So I can speak more viscerally than if I hadn't felt the sting of some of these false charges. There is this insidious suggestion that I was conducting an operation. It's untrue, unfair and totally wrong. I met Max Gomez...
...against Gaddafi," said he. Citing the example of Winston Churchill's efforts to mislead the Nazis about the site of the D-day landings during World War II, the Secretary said of the situation with Libya, "We don't have a declaration of war, but we have something pretty darn close...
...Murphy has been doing at ABC and getting a lot of applause for." Wyman, meanwhile, admits that the turmoil at CBS has been distracting. Other companies can deal with their problems in relative private, he says, but in network TV it "turns into a soap opera." And a darn good...
...been placed in the cluttered corners of raucous comedies starring Saturday Night Live alumni (Ghostbusters, Deal of the Century) or at the cores of enigmatic dramas (Eyewitness, The Year of Living Dangerously). She is Dom Perignon in a town built to sell Dr Pepper. And she is too darn tall...