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Mexico, 1916. After a gang of bandits terrorizes the village of Santa Poco, a lovely senorita telegraphs three cowboy heroes she saw in a movie. To the rescue ride "Lucky Day" (Steve Martin), "Dusty Bottoms" (Chevy Chase) and "Ned Nederlander" (Martin Short), three bumbling actors who have just been fired by their Hollywood studio. They think they have been invited south of the border to sing, not shoot, but in the end they rally the villagers to throw out the desperadoes. The Magnificent Seven it is not; it is The Three Amigos, a comedy adventure due for Christmas that also...
Charles Triplett, 16, is shot in the back and dies. He was a member of a gang known as the Q Boys. Police charge two members of a rival gang, the Vice Lords, with murder...
Vincent Bailey, 18, gets caught in the middle of an argument between members of a youth gang and other teenagers. A gun is fired, and Bailey dies seven days later...
...final scene, the gang is at the beach. The police are coming, and everyone runs. Everyone but Madjid who sits, depressed, thinking of the helplessness he sees surrounding him. Pat looks at him, screams his name, but then frightened, he runs off with the rest. The police pick up Madjid and he stares out the window, listlessly. Adopting Madjid's point of view, the camera travels down the road. Ahead, it spots Pat. Freeze-frame. The final photograph of this film--Pat leaning back and waving, his hair blown back by the salt breeze--is worth sitting through two hours...
...Measure, As You Like It and the third outdoor production, the infrequently seen Titus Andronicus, all emphasize the savagery that befalls well-governed states when just men fail to hold on to power. Titus features three hands chopped off, one tongue cut out, two doses of unknowing cannibalism, plus gang rape, and murders by sword, starvation and bleeding to death. Director Pat Patton represents the gore in Japanese fashion, with streamers of red ribbon, but audiences still titter as bodies heap up on the stage. Titus, a great general defied by his children and betrayed by his country, is often...