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...Desperado, after all, only really exist inasmuch is necessary to allow Rodriguez to string-together and stage his elaborate action set-pieces. It hardly matters one wink, however, because the whole movie is so intoxicated by its own style that its verve and kinetic energy become utterly infectious-each gunshot is like a jolt of adrenaline. The special-effects laden spectacle of Spy Kids, on the other hand, cannot fall back on the natural buzz of stylish violence (and those who think it doesn't exist should become better acquainted with the work of Sam Peckinpah and John...
...Thomas disagrees. Using a different instance of so-called "cross talk," he determined that the gunshot-like sound from the grassy knoll occurs "at the exact instant that John F. Kennedy was assassinated." Accordingly, he tabulated that there was a more than 96 percent chance that a second gunman took a shot at Kennedy. Not only that, says Thomas, he believes the fourth shot was the one that killed the President...
...punching out a publisher whose magazine had been tailing his girlfriend. For that 1986 dustup Beat was handed a two-year suspended sentence for assault. "Violence is necessary and unexpected," he says, rubbing his right cheek as though checking an old bruise. "There is nothing more violent than a gunshot entering an unsuspecting family and killing the father." Comedy, too, he says, is violent. "The essence of comedy is to say things that are totally unexpected and sudden under the given circumstances. I adapted a lot of the technique of comedians to the depiction of violence in films...
...strange moment on "Meet the Press": Off-camera in the studio, a lightbulb apparently exploded -a loud, sharp noise. Jesse Jackson thought it was a gunshot. For an instant he looked wildly to his right, eyes questioning...
America should be grateful that this election was as wild as it gets [ELECTION 2000, Nov. 20]. Some of us originally came from places where heads would have rolled during a similar crisis. So far, not a gunshot has been heard on account of the balloting, and you call this "wild"? An election held in Nigeria in 1993 led to the President-elect's being thrown in jail for trying to assume office and ultimately to his mysterious death. Going to court to decide who won this contest is, in my opinion, as civilized as it gets. MAY AKABOGU-COLLINS...