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...meet Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) in mid-rant, and our first impression is of a typical New York City cabbie of the old, or native-born, variety, full of mis- and disinformation delivered in a rush that permits no quibbling interruption. Assassination plots both current and historical, a unique slant on the militia movement, even (heaven help us!) inside dope on the Vatican's plans for world domination--the man's a full-service paranoid...
Finally, we don't believe a word of this. (A black helicopter hovering unremarked over a crowded Union Square? I don't think so.) But Gibson blurs the line between lunacy and lucidity very funnily, Roberts is a woman who could drive any man sane, and some of the film's offhand observations about the life-styles of the poor and nutty are goofily persuasive (Jerry padlocks his refrigerator and keeps its contents in combination-locked canisters). Caught up in the movie's intricacies, we go along with it, momentarily distant kin to those people who cling desperately to some...
...Gibson displays his impressive ability to act the role of a completely paranoid man; his jumpiness and fidgety behavior are both comical and discomforting. He never shuts up throughout the entire movie (except when he's staring into Alice's eyes), which makes you want to slam your hands on his shoulders and shake him into speaking coherent sentences. Patrick Stewart brings a fine creepiness to the role of the shrewd, vicious Dr. Jonas. He's a villain you love to hate, especially when Jerry finally gives him his comeuppance...
...Year -- Man of and Woman of, that is. The Hasty Pudding roped off Holyoke Street and had a fete-cum-parade for Julia Roberts and Mel "Life is a Shit Sandwich" Gibson. Roberts, who pulled her acceptance speech out of her sock, quipped, "I could have put it worse places...
...years later, he heard that noise again, and it was Josh Gibson, perhaps the greatest Negro-leaguer ever. Then, in the late '80s, he heard it again--Bo Jackson...