Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMETHING IS ROTTEN on the island of St. Nicholas and it's not the smell of oil-covered flesh frying in the tropical sun. It's not even the evil machinations of several fatcats planning on buying these unspoiled Caribbean beaches to build their dream highrise resort. What's rotten here is the acting, script and theme all mixed up in a noxious concoction of a movie...
...Sanborn. "To order any attorney to sit and watch with apparent approval while his client commits forbidden acts to a jury does nothing less than order the lawyer to be a knowing instrument of totally unethical and dishonest conduct," he protested. "Silence here is participation; it is cooperation with evil." Judge Shapiro held Rubin in criminal contempt and sentenced him to 30 days. Fully prepared, with underwear and shaving kit stuffed in his briefcase, Rubin last week heard Shapiro pack him off to jail. Undaunted, the lawyer arranged for a habeas corpus petition to be filed with the Florida Supreme...
...Mausoleum. "A little pale," he exulted, "but looks great." Furthermore, Seattle has been selected to host the second quadrennial festival in 1990. In the meantime, Turner will busy himself with documentaries on both the Soviet Union and disarmament. "In the U.S., we're saying things like, 'They're an evil empire and a bunch of bums,' " he chided, "and we don't even know them. To keep from blowing ourselves up, isn't this worth a shot? Can't hurt." After deep thought, he added, "Not just ourselves, what about the elephants?" What about the mountain goats...
Starting out was hard. He played the evil lead in a children's theater production of Rapunzel and the Wicked Wizard ("It's widely read in Europe," says droll Danny). He tried Los Angeles ("I couldn't get arrested . . . or an agent") and came back East. But for a while in New York City, there was no house to call home. "I had no money and needed a place to sleep, so I'd ride the Third Avenue bus up to the Bronx, cross the street and ride back down to the Battery. Thanks to the transit authority...
...other characters in the movie have too little substance to really care about, although it's hard not to be bowled over by 20-year-old Tyson's exotic beauty, and Michael Caine as chief bad guy has never been sleazier. Simone's evil sadistic ponce turns out to be a standard slick pimp, and the tragic Cathy is just another spacey blonde waif with a drug problem--and with a hard-to-believe twist, as we discover at the end of the movie...