Word: gunman
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...Speight has demanded that Fiji be ruled exclusively by indigenous Fijians, while the country's Indian community - the 49 percent of the 800,000 inhabitants whose ancestors were brought to Fiji by the British 100 years ago to pick sugar - must accept second-class citizenship. The gunman's toppling of the country's first ethnic-Indian leader appears to have captured the imagination of many indigenous Fijians, and prompted the Fijian army to seize power and nix the constitution. Still, Speight refuses to free his hostages until he and his cronies are given a direct role in ruling the country...
...does. And the story just gets stranger. Ten days earlier, at an Irvine office park, Ford's business partner, a gregarious 58-year-old named James Patrick Riley, had been shot in the face by a gunman wearing a ski mask. Riley survived. When police tracked the getaway car, its driver turned out to be an acquaintance of Ford's. "This conspiracy to commit murder was financially motivated," a prosecutor told reporters after searching Ford's home. Ford referred reporters to his lawyer, saying only, "It's just a crazy, crazy situation...
...black, alone but not lonely, pursuing a treacherous trade, doing business with lethal idiots who understand his methods but not his magic. He is Ghost Dog, a philosophical black gunman who runs afoul of the mobsters who employ him in Jim Jarmusch's niftily quirky Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. And yes, he is Jarmusch as well--a filmmaker who, since his 1984 Stranger Than Paradise, has pretty much defined the spirit of the truly independent American film. Ghost Dog is talking about himself and his Mafia contact, but he might be speaking of Jarmusch when he says...
...story more machined than created, in which Oz Oseransky (Matthew Perry), an innocent Canadian dentist, gets involved with a semiretired mob hit man (Bruce Willis) and a legion of his former colleagues who want to whack Willis for ratting out their boss. Somehow Oz survives, and gets the gunman's gorgeous ex-wife (Natasha Henstridge) for good measure...
...Finding out who is responsible for Arkan's death won't be easy. The events are already murky - whether there was one gunman or two is in question - and suspicious: Somehow, the assailant(s) managed to get off at least 38 shots and still have time to escape. As with many things related to the last, terrible decade in the Balkans, the truth may never fully be known...