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...En route to Denver from Rome, the Pope had expressed his concerns about America to reporters aboard his plane. He took the occasion to reiterate one of his primary preoccupations: the prevalence of violence around the world, including the U.S. Said he: "To have this phenomenon in the United States, the most progressive country in the world!" He blamed it on the slant of the media...
Both actors make it clear that their characters are upper-crust crooks. Though ruthless and determined, they have a foppish quality and a refinement surprising for someone in their line of work. In one nice mise-en-scene bit Henriksen plays a Beethoven sonata in the drawing room of his estate while another homeless man is recruited for the next hunt. Henriksen's crony questions the victim about his finances and relatives. Each answer is intercut with shots of Henricksen and his opulent estate...
...that according to McGinniss's story, Teddy does not yet know most of these details either. All he has learned by now -- and McGinniss insists on Teddy's prolonged isolation from the events in Dallas -- is that J.F.K. has been killed and that his body and widow are en route to Washington. No other grim specifics. How then can McGinniss document Teddy's concern over Caroline's ignorance of facts he himself had not heard...
Because it doesn't -- because the violin maker chooses wood over flesh -- Un Coeur en Hiver seems to take place inside Stephane; it is a story of a woman's passion, told with a man's disconcerting reticence. In an overheated Hollywood summer, this movie is a sorbet that goes straight to the heart. And once there, it has a chilling effect. It says that genteel talk can be the most hurtful obscenity...
CINEMA Arnold battles the rumormongers in Last Action Hero. Un Coeur en Hiver takes a close look at a cold heart. TELEVISION A cartoon dog has its long- promised day. THEATER The cult classic She Loves Me is revealed as a classic, period. BOOKS Arthur Ashe's moving, strangely defensive memoir...