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When it comes to disarmament negotiations, the devil is truly in the details. While the arms talks showed such progress last week that Yuli Vorontsov, the chief Soviet negotiator, predicted that an agreement could be reached by summer, it is still to be seen whether the momentum can be sustained. Both Gorbachev and Reagan would certainly like to hold a successful summit later this year -- maybe even one at which they exchange pens after initialing an arms-control agreement. But a lot of tough bargaining will have to take place before anyone can pull...
...directorial talent? For Angel Heart is not the movie TriStar wants it to be--a sexually charged murder mystery centered around the disrobing of Cosby Show sibling Lisa Bonet. Mr. Parker is shooting for something greater, more profound--an intellectually and sexually charged murder mystery centered around the devil, featuring the disrobing of Ms. Bonet. I've been...
Oedipus Rex: now there was a great mystery plot. The detective is the murderer; his mother is the femme fatale; his father is the victim. And Faust: a good chase tale. Guy sells his soul to the devil, then chases after secrets of life and death. Today, though, the mysteries are more mundane, the deals more damning. Like why in hell was Angel Heart -- a detective story about secret loves and profane pacts -- ever considered worthy of an X by the movie industry's rating board...
...Alan Parker was serious and free of titillation. The board's game was a sick joke at the expense of ambitious filmmakers, and it was resolved last week with the snipping of ten seconds of feral footsie. In the movie business, almost everyone has to make deals with the devil...
...collision between Catholic faith and morals on the one hand and Masai tradition on the other is spectacular. Perhaps the flies had come to seem to Davis the outward sign of the devil's presence here in the Masai enk'ang, home of polygamists and breezy pagan fornicators. But the goat was an ancient symbol of the devil. The theology was confusing. Perhaps Davis merely intended to endow one fly-free little life in the dense air of the boma...