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...last week. A political thriller cum debate by Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman about the difficulties of shifting from dictatorship to democracy, it stars five-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close as a woman raped and tortured by the old regime who wants to hunt down her abusers. Oscar winner Gene Hackman plays the genial doctor who may or may not have been the blindfolded woman's chief tormenter 15 years ago. Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss portrays her husband, a liberal politician who seeks to preserve the uneasy peace of the present even if it means suppressing the truth of the past...
...previously seized some of Saddam's holdings as part of $1 billion of Iraqi assets that the U.S. froze after Iraq invaded Kuwait. The properties were connected with Anees Masoor Wadi, an Iraqi middleman who resided in a $3.5 million Beverly Hills home -- where his neighbors included actor Gene Hackman and director John Landis -- and who was allegedly part of Saddam's global network for procuring arms and military technology. Wadi reportedly helped acquire a suburban Cleveland machine-tool firm called Matrix-Churchill, which made versatile computer-operated jig grinders that could be used to produce precision parts for everything...
...laughter of the rehab clinic. The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. Suzanne has her poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then you're camp." In Postcards she is all of these, and better...
Their male counterparts, joining Rain Man's Hoffman, included Gene Hackman for Mississippi Burning. He was joined by Oscar-nominee newcomers Tom Hanks for Big, Edward James Olmos for Stand and Deliver and veteran actor Max Von Sydow for Denmark's Pelle the Conqueror...
...Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers. A stark new film about the case has won acclaim for its cinematic bravado and for Gene Hackman' s career- capping performance. The movie has also stoked questions about the ways history may be bent in pursuit of rebel- razin' entertainment. See SHOW BUSINESS...