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...gifts starts to drift out of the rehab center where he has taken refuge. Among his would-be exploiters are a sometime revivalist (Christopher Walken), now reduced to selling used RVs and aluminum siding; a Catholic fundamentalist (Tom Arnold), prepared to enforce a return to the Latin Mass, at gunpoint if necessary; a dubious record promoter (Paul Mazursky), worried that Juvenal won?t tour like the Pope does; a star biographer (Janeane Garofalo), looking for the inside gossip; and, of course, the TV host (Gina Gershon), half smarm, half snarl. "Striving for drollness, Schrader sometimes achieves a distancing effect instead...
...used to better effect in the recent Jim Jarmusch corpse opera Dead Man) and a girlfriend in peril (British stunner Carmen Ejogo). A shame the star wasn't given a character to play, witty dialogue to speak or clever plot twists to unravel. But though Roper is often at gunpoint, Murphy wasn't when he agreed to make Metro. In his bumpy tryst with filmgoers, how long will he make us wait for another Nutty Professor? How long until we can love Eddie again...
...vehicle had been stolen from its owners at gunpoint on December...
...undergraduate was robbed at gunpoint Sunday at approximately 2 a.m. while walking through Cambridge Common towards the Quad...
...play reaches the climax of its feverish surreality when Santa and Rosemary Kennedy show up at the Somerville pad and take over the apartment, gratuitous water bong and all. Small-time Socialist Perry (O'Toole), held up at gunpoint, still reverts to his typical over-inflated dictatorial style: "If this is some sort of bluff, it's poorly executed...