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...unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that he had "uncovered no hard evidence that Army Intelligence played any role in King's assassination," Pepper takes the tale to the races. Pepper writes that the soldiers were in Memphis to shoot King--and his deputy Andrew Young--if the hired civilian gunman who actually fired the fatal shot had missed. All of the witnesses Pepper claims can back up this story are dead, in hiding or unwilling to come forward--so there is no way for anyone else to question them...
...that Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit. But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford's work--no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does--and director Alan J. Pakula's analogous strengths. Pakula (Klute, Presumed Innocent) develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, The Devil's Own suggests the skill may be only...
...fire marshal ordered the festivities shut down. Wallace went to his truck. A friend took the wheel of the GMC Suburban, and the rapper got into the passenger seat (he didn't have a driver's license). Moments after they left the parking lot, according to witnesses, a lone gunman in a passing car fired several shots from a 9-mm handgun through the passenger side of the vehicle, hitting the 24-year-old rapper. He died on the way to the hospital...
...Kevin Jarre) is good about not making too much of this relationship, subtly foreshadowing the betrayal that must come, but allowing these figures room to draw normal human breath. "Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford?s work?no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does?and director Alan J. Pakula?s analogous strengths. Pakula develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions...
...2Given the growing crisis surrounding the peace process, today's tragedy can only emphasize the urgency of moving swiftly and decisively to implement the Oslo Accords, something Netanyahu has been reluctant to do. It may well be that today's incid ent was the work of a lone gunman, but lone gunmen on both sides are symptomatic of the deep emotions that surround almost every Israeli-Palestinian issue...