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...stakes game of blindman's buff gives The Hunt for Red October solid dramatic tension. Still, this obviously could have been a movie in which a lot of people stood around talking in tight spaces; in other words, a movie that refused to move. But screenwriters Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart do not overexplain (or underexplain) either its technology or the intricacies of its far-darting plot. We know all we need to know to keep our bearings and not a monosyllable more. And director John McTiernan does not fall too much in love with any scene, character or gadget...
...Mile Island of journalism: a meltdown waiting to happen. We've all known for years that the journalism business was on the verge of blowing its top. Now it's been done in full view of the country. We have seen supposedly responsible newspapers give over Page One to Donald and Ivana Trump on the same day that Nelson Mandela returned to Soweto and the Allies of World War II agreed to the unification of Germany...
That is not to say that the breakup of the Trump marriage isn't a story. It is, and it is appropriate to have a little fun with it. After all, the Trump saga -- the ascendancy of Donald Trump as a business power, of Mr. and Mrs. Trump as social doyens -- has been a masterwork of media manipulation and self-promotion, abetted by a celebrity-worshiping press corps. But to watch a purportedly serious newspaper like Newsday report breathlessly in its lead story that "hotel records show that Maples paid no bills" is to discover where priorities in the news...
...Donald Forst, Newsday's New York editor, explained that the war of the Trumps has riveted the media's attention "because it revolves around lust, power, money, sex. A man who was successful, who's written books or had books written for him, and now he's got a little mud on his shoes. People just...
...from 27 years in the African Gulag. Mandela had himself become a celebrity to be regarded through the cynical eye of this New Journalism, the subject of its infectious, abbreviated tone, the obsession with appearance as opposed to substance. These are the warning signs of meltdown. Ciao, Nelson. Hello, Donald. Hello, Ivana...