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...Last month his only daughter was married in secret, and though naturally spontaneous and gregarious, he asked newspapers to ignore his 60th birthday. As the multimillionaire chairman and majority stockholder of the brewery that bears his name, Alfred H. ("Freddie") Heineken had good reason to lie low: when a gang seized a fellow Dutch millionaire in 1977, making off with a ransom of $4.1 million, it inadvertently left behind a list of other likely targets. Among them was Heineken...
While both candidates were rightfully wary of running a negative campaign--Boston elections tend to be the verbal equivalent of gang warfare--being tough on your opponent and mud-slinging are not mutually exclusive. King waited until almost the half-way point of the five-week final election to seriously question Flynn's professed "liberalism" and "growth," by which time it was already too late...
...retold from perspective after perspective. The film begins with a chilling scenario of the sheriff and Cortez' first meeting as recounted by posse leader Boone Choate, played by Tom Bower. A reporter from the San Antonio Express, who travels with the Rangers, strings together various accounts of the "Cortez gang," but it is not until the last third of the movie that we see the event from Cortez' point of view...
...picture does not accuse or judge either side. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez allows its audience to walk away knowing a wrong was committed but understanding emotionally how it took place. We see how the Texas Rangers used their chase of "the Cortez gang" to sustain an institution whose purpose was outlived. We see how the Mexican community of Gonzalez, Texas used the Cortez predicament as a unifying cause. Young condemns neither side; he simply presents them as they...
Patterson: What do we do with Haiti, which has been ruled by a gang of thugs which murders its people regularly? What do you do in Chile, where people are being murdered? What do you do in Argentina? Do you invade on every occasion? So why invade on this...