Word: doomsday
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...carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life, is 66, as is Gene Hackman, who plays a sexually reckless U.S. President. E.G. Marshall, in the role of the President's adviser, is 86 and counting. The plot is a doomsday version of Bill Clinton's Paula Jones problem, but the theme is impending mortality--settling scores before time...
...Deputy Housing Secretary under Jack Kemp. The son of a meat packer and a practical nurse, Blackwell was a Democrat growing up but switched parties in the 1980s. His conversion was driven in part by what he said is a "basic Jeffersonian" distrust of bureaucracies. "Doomsday," he said, "is the day we get all the government...
...press conference last week that the coming year would be a tough one for the Russian economy. "What is in store for us," he predicted, "in terms of scale of the problem exceeds what we have faced in the past." Waiting in the wings for just such a doomsday scenario to come to pass are Russia's Communists, who have consoled themselves after defeat in the recent election by predicting that Yeltsin's victory will be short-lived. Come the fall, they say, the government's credibility will be wiped out by an economic collapse, and the continuing decline...
These films were routine but easy to take; they put the fun in perfunctory. ID4 is a big step up, a doomsday fable told at warp speed. The approach of the alien ships is nicely achieved, with ominous shadows creeping across the Apollo 11 monument on the moon, then up the facades of the White House and the Empire State Building. On Earth, an ensemble cast fleshes out the stereotypes (Harvey Fierstein, whiny gay man; Judd Hirsch, crusty old Jew; Vivica Fox, stripper with heart of gold), while the three male leads mine all available righteousness and comic charm. Wryness...
...festival has always had a healthy sense of its mission--still does, as indicated by three billboards promoting the doomsday summer thriller Independence Day. NO WARNING, announces the first sign; NO NEGOTIATIONS, reads the second, which shows an alien spaceship hovering over the Riviera; finally, as the spaceship obliterates all sunlight, the legend says, NO CANNES. You have to admire a festival that can imagine no worse catastrophe than its own disappearance...