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...panic of escape from Shanghai, he reaches for his precious toy airplane instead of holding onto his mother's hand for dear life. Once on his own, he leaps into the grasping arms of a scurvy American merchant seaman (John Malkovich). Jim might be an Oliver Twist auditioning for Fagin, or a Pinocchio begging to visit Stromboli's summer camp...
Sawyer's lawyer, Lloyd Riley, argued that the prosecution's portrayal of his client as a latter-day Fagin was "absurd. He doesn't have the mental capacity to execute such schemes." But U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton decided last week that the coach had indeed taught his team to steal more than bases. He sentenced Sawyer, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of unarmed robbery, to a maximum 30 years in prison. Ten gang members had earlier received four to 24 years...
...beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture. For a production that means to bring children back to the movies, dragging their parents with them, Annie has a dark, dour, meanspirited tone-Oliver Twist as retold by Fagin...
...only on a final count. Brecht's aesthetic of the theater allowed for no catharsis; his works end by posing the question of the world to the audience and waiting for the answer. The fault does not seem to lie with anyone in particular--Epstein, the performers, or Gary Fagin's energetic conducting but somewhere towards the end of this Seven Deadly Sins an alchemical transformation fails to take place: the dilemmas facing the characters fail to become the dilemmas facing the audience. It understands them but feels no urgent need to make a choice...
...times with breathless high adventure and breathers of low comedy. Sonja's Nile-blue bisexual capers aboard her houseboat Jihan do not exactly resemble the mild erotica enacted aboard Travis McGee's Busted Flush in Florida. And one wild street donnybrook introduces a hilarious Cairene Fagin whose thievery steals more scenes than secrets...