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...acting is mostly passable. Leguizamo is convincing and amusing as a woman and thus as a drag queen, even if he has to be an ignorant, dizzy one. As a cross between June Cleaver and Liz Taylor, Swayze succeeds in his matron role. Snipes, however, is a sight gag. Leguizamo and Swayze are graceful and can pull off the drag queen bit, but Snipes looks like a big man in a dress. His obnoxious anti-Latino lines make his character relatively unattractive as well. Blythe Danner, in a small part as an odd local, is subtle and funny...
...also find it intriguing that the Summer School administration has imposed a gag order on proctors to prevent them from discussing the curfew. When I was a proctor, the Summer School frequently attempted to ignore or prevent the discussion of problems affecting students, even to the point of compromising student safety...
...bitter blow. But Howard isn't the only judge in the 47 states that permit courtroom cameras who has been spooked by the Simpson case. Superior Court Judge Lawrence Antolini, who is currently presiding over the California trial of the accused murderer of Polly Klaas, has imposed a gag order on lawyers and restricted TV coverage to the first five minutes of each court day. Last week he vowed, "Nothing like the O.J. Simpson case is going to happen in my courtroom...
...face, it is a high-gloss update of the "friendly ghost" who starred in 55 cartoons between 1946 and 1959, a long-running comic book and a short-lived 1979 TV series. Director Brad Silberling mixes rude slapstick for the kids with pop-culture cues for their parents, including gag cameos by Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Ghostbusters' Dan Aykroyd. The movie even has its own theme-park ride, a kind of human car wash. All jolly enough. But in its haunted heart, Casper is another invitation to kids to flirt with the idea of being dead...
...particular, she pointed to Fried'sopposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1991, to"home-rule" powers of communities independent ofMassachusetts and to his involvement in theimposition of the "gag rule" that prevents doctorsand health professionals from advising women aboutabortion...