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...best performers working today. His characters are fueled by a highly controlled intensity. Playing the teacher in Stand and Deliver or Lieut. Castillo in Miami Vice, he holds in his energy, radiating it through a laser-beam stare. He is every minority rebel putting his fireworks on a long fuse. In a few roles -- the strutting El Pachuco in Zoot Suit or the crazed, canine avenger in Wolfen -- Olmos cuts loose and explodes with more than his eyes. Nostrils flare, teeth flash, the body language becomes incendiary...
...stressed during the five-state swing today: strong defense and "stability." Each day the campaign carefully focuses its message on a simple idea. Fuller reminds Bush to avoid mentioning Dole or Robertson by name but to reaffirm the stability factor, a subtle contrast to Dole's supposed short fuse and Robertson's wild charges...
...Screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds needn't change much else. Even with their pampered hair and fractured prose, these journalists can be as rapacious and fallacious as the old guys. Just watch the media line up avidly for the first televised electrocution, then blow the story when the warden blows a fuse. What you won't see here is the daft equipoise Howard Hawks brought to His Girl Friday. The new film's director, Ted Kotcheff, is content to push everybody into a small space and hope they're funny...
...music, according to Ross, is "a mixture of everything: a 1960's rock and roll sound with punk and African influences." The lyrics focus mainly on "political realities." And, "emotional responsibilities" are the source of Green Fuse's lyrics, Ross adds...
...band currently is working on an extended play (EP) demo tape with six musical tracks that they will circulate to different record companies in order to secure a contract. Green Fuse also plans to take one of the songs on the EP--called "Celebration"--and create a video. The song is "very political," Ross says, adding that it deals with the present situation in South Africa. The video will include actual footage filmed in South Africa and performance footage taped at Johnny...