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Critics call this an "O.C." movie; every plot twist is so easy to spot that the only response is "of course." The star (Richard Gere) is a Chicago cop with a dependable partner played by a disposable actor. O.C., the partner gets killed by a visiting New Orleans gangster (Jeroen Krabbe) while keeping tabs on the gangster's moll (Kim Basinger). O.C., the star goes to New Orleans to hunt down the bad guy, gets hassled by the local police and, O.C., falls in love with the moll while they dodge crackers and crocodiles in bayou country. Bullets perforate every...
...Carabatsos works efficiently within, rather than against, genre expectations; and Director Richard Pearce (Country) blows the right amount of steam around his characters to create atmosphere; this is the tangiest of the 46 recent movies shot in New Orleans (no, we won't name 'em). Most of the time, Gere and Basinger have their backs to the wall, and it does wonders for their posture if not quite for their performances. Krabbe, though, is a top macho scuzz ball, with his haunting face, menacing whisper and evil ponytail. This stoic, sulfuric Dutch actor helps prove that an O.C. movie, when...
While prepping for his role as a media consultant and dirty trickster in the film Power, Richard Gere, 37, was reminded of his college days in the '60s. Back then, as a student at the University of Massachusetts, Gere got involved with S.D.S. and marched on the Pentagon but later "dropped out of politics and became very cynical," he says. However, after a trip to El Salvador last summer, he felt the old activist itch and decided to campaign against aid for the contras in Nicaragua. Last week the actor hit the hustings in upstate New York, livening up fund...
Confident and articulate, Zschau bears a certain narrow-eyed resemblance to Actor Richard Gere. In a statewide Mervin Field poll taken last November, Zschau was the preferred candidate of only 3% of registered Republicans. By March he had soared into the ranks of the leaders with 11%. As an exemplar of the pragmatic brand of California Republicanism, rather than a "true believer" of the right, he is the only one who draws support from all regions of the state...
...moment, Pete (played with a sinuously boyish charm by Richard Gere) has more pressing problems. He has candidates in trouble all over the map: a Governor's divorce and remarriage in the far West; a rich candidate's cabbageheaded stupidity in the Southwest; the hold on a Midwestern senatorial candidate by agents of an Arab oil state. The true purpose of these cliches and intrigues is to supply Power with some paranoiac melodrama of the kind that is nowadays never absent from movies about American politics. Pete may be involved, either as unwitting coconspirator or victim, in something more menacing...