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...done really well in the past few weeks and we should have strong chance," senior Captain Cathy Griffin said. "Cornell and Brown will be our main opponents...
...area -- a battalion whose weakness led at least one leader to resort to sophistry. The women who kept their appointments at the clinics, said the Rev. Robert Schenck, were "no one of any consequence, I can assure you." By midweek, Buffalo's anti-abortion rights mayor, James Griffin, was backpedaling. After offering the group his "open arms" last October, he insisted last week that the gesture had not been "a formal welcome...
...residents are Roman Catholic and on the mayor's sympathy toward their cause. But that too was a miscalculation. According to Goldhaber, 57% of area residents describe themselves as pro- choice, and 63% of those who describe themselves as pro-life opposed the group's plans. As for Mayor Griffin, he is not terribly popular with his constituents. His approval rating stands at 38%, and last year he was trounced in the race for county executive...
...movie begins, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), the senior v.p. of production at a major studio, feels his security eroding. An ambitious parvenu named Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher) has designs on Mill's job. Furthermore, an anonymous and extremely angry screenwriter keeps sending Mill a series of death-threats written on postcards. Unable to tell anyone what is happening, Mill takes matters into his own hands, killing a screenwriter and taking up with his girlfriend. However, the threats don't stop, and the movie is off and running...
...packed with ironies and bitterly funny gags that our heads are reeling when we leave the theater. One can only wonder what sort of impact the movie is causing in Hollywood. The greatest irony is that The player is exactly the kind of incredible film that a producer like Griffin Mill would try to stifle...