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AT A SEPTEMBER news conference, Attorney General Edwin Meese III tried to justify the death sentence for minors who commit capital crimes. "You have kids becoming increasingly sophisticated--I suppose largely by watching television--they're just smarter, you know." It "follows" that "a state is justified at imposing a...
From the opening music with its subliminally mixed in strains from Psycho, the audience realizes its mistake in opening the door to this film. Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) just as quickly realizes his error in picking up hitchhiker John Ryder (Rutger Hauer) as he tools through the middle of...
Artukovic took advantage of U.S. cold-war hostility toward Yugoslavia, among other things, to fend off extradition requests that began in 1951. He used false papers to emigrate to the U.S. in 1948, after first traveling to Italy, Switzerland and Ireland. Artukovic lived in California until his 1984 arrest and...
Amy Madigan, of course, must have gone to the Ed Harris school for character interpretation and execution, because her portrayal of the MacKenzie family's enraged daughter Sunny in Twice in a Lifetime is just about as profound and thought-provoking as Harris' Charlie Dick.
The Mafia lawyer worked closely with reputed Colombo Family Lieutenant Gregory Scarpa, tipping off the mobster about clients of his who he thought might be cooperating with federal authorities. The penalty for informing: execution. Said Light of Scarpa: "He could have dinner with you, then when it comes time for...