Word: fords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heaven's Gate victims did more than leave suicide notes; they left suicide press kits. One of the first to receive the materials was a former cult member using the name Rio D'Angelo (police say he is really Richard Ford), who got a Federal Express package containing two videotapes, a letter and two computer discs. He took the tape home last Tuesday night and watched it. On Wednesday he came to work at the Interact Entertainment Group in Beverly Hills, California, which had employed Higher Source, the cult's Web-page design service. Rio told his boss, Nick Matzorkis...
Maybe yes, maybe no. But before either the studio or the audience takes a write-off on this one, we should recall that those two stars, Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, are known for their ability to open a picture. More important, we should take into account the fact that this is really quite a good movie--a character-driven (as opposed to whammy-driven) suspense drama--dark, fatalistic and, within its melodramatically stretched terms, emotionally plausible...
...British secret service, whose noose is beginning to tighten around him. He carries a vast sum of money and instructions to purchase a shipment of Stinger missiles capable of rebalancing the power in Belfast. Given an assumed name and occupation, he enters the country, and the home of Ford's Tom O'Meara, as an ordinary immigrant needing a sponsor. Since Tom is a New York City cop of unquestionable honesty, Frankie's cover is perfect...
...that Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit. But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford's work--no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does--and director Alan J. Pakula's analogous strengths. Pakula (Klute, Presumed Innocent) develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, The Devil's Own suggests the skill may be only...
...reason to stay a moment longer." Some members apparently believe their leader was dying of cancer, but the coroner's office found no evidence of cancer in Applewhite's body. The newly-discovered notes, called "Earth Exit Statements," were on two computer disks sent to former cult member Richard Ford at his Beverly Hills office, along with the farewell videotape shown last week on national TV. Ford has been in hiding since he discovered the bodies of his former colleagues last Wednesday. Until Saturday night, when his employer, Nick Matzorkis, showed the disks to TIME, no one knew what...