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...Ludlow is the good guy in the gaudy police procedural Street Kings. The only one. "You went toe-to-toe with evil and you won," Tom's superior, Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker) tells him proudly. "Gimme a hug." Ludlow is the star of Wander's Vice unit, which uses all exigent means, like a fist to the face and bullet in the back, to keep the better organized sexual predators in tow. "You are the tip of the spear," Wander says to Tom. "Who else'll keep back the animals...
...heedless of collective wisdom. In one untitled poem, Paley writes without reservation, “Thank God there is no god / or we’d all be lost,” perhaps a clever articulation of the sentiment, but ultimately a somewhat superficial analysis of the problem of evil. Similarly, her examination of the rich never proceeds beyond their stinginess, and her look at America’s treatment of Native Americans never emerges from simply assigning blame. These conclusions may be true, but they fail to merit the project of the poem.Beyond her polemics, Paley?...
...house-painter because of his dissident activities. Tusk shared with Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders an antipathy to the government that he says was self-evident: "Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around...
...list of Stuff Mixed People Like. My little brother, Jaysen, darkly joked, "You get to hate twice as many people. For example, Chinese people hate the Japanese, blacks can hate whites, etc." Great. My friend Anthony, who has a Mexican dad and a white mom, offered less evil suggestions including...
...that happen?), Heston would often venture beyond the epic. He made plenty of Westerns, some important science-fiction films, a few comedies (for which he was constitutionally unsuited). And he was willing to fight for directors he believed in. He assured the financing of Touch of Evil, Orson Welles' most satisfying post-Citizen Kane Hollywood film, by agreeing to star in it. He also offered to give back part of his salary so Sam Peckinpah could finish Major Dundee as he'd planned. (The story goes that the producers took the money but didn't allow the extra shooting. Even...