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...schools. Mazloum is the owner of a local car dealership. Mohammad Amawi operates a small travel agency. El-Hindi, a married father of seven children ages 6 months to 11 years old, claims he was arrested Sunday by agents who entered his home without knocking and seized him at gunpoint. Says his lawyer, Stephen Hartman: "He steadfastly maintains his innocence." All three men pleaded not guilty on Tuesday and are being held in a federal correctional facility in Milan, Michigan, until their detention hearing...
...with a full beard and sad eyes who admits having been a drug addict, has just been plucked off rough-and-tumble Whitelock Street in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Md. His crime? Being too scared to testify in court against a paroled murderer who robbed him at gunpoint last April. Chalmers began missing court dates three months before he was picked up. So the state of Maryland plans to incarcerate him until it's his time to testify. His biggest mistake, Chalmers says on the way to the same facility where his alleged attacker is being jailed...
...sympathize with Dick and Jane’s dilemma. The humor of the film lies in the hilarious robbery scenes juxtaposed against suburban normalcy. When Dick and Jane attempt to rob a coffee shop, they also demand two iced mochas and non-fat muffins, with the cashier at gunpoint. It seems as if every movie this holiday season is a remake or adaptation—“King Kong,” “The Producers,” “Yours, Mine, and Ours”—and “Dick and Jane?...
...journalistic movie about the politics of crude. "It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about," says Gaghan. "The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint...
Yamashita's script is much more relentlessly cruel. In essence, the Japanese officers compelled the bravery (and suicide) of their troops at gunpoint. Only the Japanese commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (a mysterious historical figure who fascinates Eastwood), and a fictional conscript, Saigo, whose fate Yamashita intertwines with his commanding officer's, demonstrate anything like humanity as a Westerner might understand it. The lieutenant general, educated in part in the U.S., is respectful of its national spirit (and industrial might) and believes that a live soldier, capable of carrying on the fight, is infinitely more valuable than a dead...