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...archaeology professor father and school-librarian mother, Judge grew up amid the grim sprawl of '70s Albuquerque, New Mexico. After college he sampled and ultimately rejected a number of jobs as an electrical engineer before devoting his energies to playing bass in various blues-rock bands. Comedy was his deepest passion, however. "I always wanted to be in Second City," he says, referring to the renowned Chicago-based comedy troupe. "But growing up in Albuquerque I thought, How the hell do you get to be one of those guys?" It wasn't until 1991 that Judge, already married and living...
...Tuesday this "protected status" expired, leaving future prospects for residents like Gretna J. Bohn-Hayden rather grim...
...next film, Dangerous Game--a grim, low-budget curiosity about a seedy film director whose movie about an abusive relationship is seeping into real life--got even less attention. This time, says Madonna, she was "sabotaged" by the director, Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant), who re-edited the ending and took out most of the humor. "The movie had such a different texture and meaning and outcome for me. When I went to see a screening of it, I cried. Because I really think I did a good job as an actress. I don't think it should be called Dangerous...
...cunning, brimming with the kind of sociopathic bravado that spells sexiness in the mid-'90s. Well, tsk-tsk and all that. But good movies make their own morals. And this one, based on Irvine Welsh's trend-spotting novel, is also and mainly a display of savvy camerabatics. Though grim death hangs like crepe over our antihero (star-in-the-making Ewan McGregor) and his mates, the John Hodge script and Danny Boyle's direction couldn't be more vital. Aesthetically, at least, Trainspotting chooses life...
...wearily condemned the attack and urged Chechen forces to thwart any further shootings. Since a tentative peace was signed in August, Russian troops have almost entirely pulled out from Chechnya, leaving the republic, which has serious secessionist ambitions, essentially to its own devices. Tuesday's shooting serves as a grim reminder that although war is over, the killing is still going...