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...White House when Hollywood decided to release one film after another that makes the place a cross between the Playboy mansion and Dracula's castle. Maybe as some kind of compensatory gesture, the movies have also lately given us the President as cartoonish action hero: Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day--the Commander in Chief as somebody who can do a nice head butt. Musclehead or sex fiend--that's not much of a choice. Before long the only guys suitable for the part will be Jackie Chan and Larry Flynt...
...Oldman. Nil takes no prisoner. From the outset, the film unleashes a barrage of unpleasantness, in the form of nonstop expletives, explosive bouts of chillingly realistic domestic violence and frequent screaming. The contaminating influence of American pop culture is everywhere, as indicated by choice shots of American brand names (Ford automobiles, Prozac "happy pills"), clips from American movies and glimpses of American cultural icons. Through a gray haze of depression, addiction and despair, Oldman and his cast somehow manage to salvage a sense of optimism and indomitable vitality from this tangle of wrecked lives. In doing so, they rescue...
...professionals who always seem to find a contact lens left in Grand Central but can never seem to catch him even though all he has at his disposal are duct tape and a twinkie. Oh, and a Macintosh. He's just a bit faster than the statue of Harrison Ford that has been appearing in movies billing old Hans these days, Amazing what they can do with claymation, but that's another article...
...early 19th century a profitable whaling industry filled the city with wealthy Yankee ship captains. But when the discovery of new oil sources rendered whaling obsolete, New Bed-ford turned to textile manufacturing to preserve its prosperity...
...sized its expectations. Out with Pax Americana. In with the Vietnam Syndrome. Out with the Cadillac. In with the Toyota. But first, out with the President, via Watergate: nearly two years spent sifting through the rubble of Richard Nixon. Whatever hopes of a clean start were raised by Gerald Ford collapsed under the Nixon pardon and an economic crisis as impervious to Ford's WHIP INFLATION NOW buttons as it had been to Nixon's wage-and-price controls...