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Gary Oldman, who hasn't had a decent movie role since he played Rosencrantz (or was it Guildenstern?), seems suited to the role of Beethoven. The actor embodies the right combination of anger and sensuality, but he's no match for the movie's ludicrous plot and bad dialogue. The film never permits him to excercise the wonderful sense of irony that underlies his best performances. The reptilian Oldman is forced to sit around in a bad wig reminiscent of the worst excesses of J.J. Jimmy Walker. Mostly, he purses his lips and sulks...
...write crisper intelligence reports for the White House. He oversaw plans for cutting almost 25% of the CIA's work force of more than 20,000 by the end of the decade, ahead of the schedule the Administration set for the reductions. "Jim Woolsey was a sincere and decent man who had an impossible task," says Angelo Codevilla, an intelligence expert with the Hoover Institution. "He was a much better director than the CIA was an agency...
...Miami, sinners? Okay--I answered my own question. But still, since when is a decent passing game a passage to purgatory...
Joycelyn Elders was not fired simply because she was offensive. She was fired primarily because she was a political liability for President Clinton. But she was a political liability because her remarks were so upsetting to many of the decent, hard-working. God-fearing people who make this nation great...
Turnovers, missed shots, fouls, death: an ugly end to a decent game...