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...from remaining a good Catholic. His wife (whom we never see) is having an affair with the man at the hardware store. Their elder son Mickey (played by writer-director Edward Burns) is a cabbie who marries one of his fares (Maxine Bahns) 24 hours after she hails his hack. The younger, Francis (Mike McGlone), is a master of the Wall Street universe, but not of life beyond it. He claims to be too preoccupied to have sex with his wife (Jennifer Aniston), but he's lying. He is trying to remain faithful to his mistress (Cameron Diaz), who just...
...second in command, is a fulsome repository of foul behavior and slippery business practices. Among them is the willfully complicated gross-and-net game that fattens those on top and leaves naive scriptwriters out of pocket. Puzo takes his vendetta to comic climax when a novelist turned LoddStone hack has to kill himself to get his money. That he sets aside his multiple suicide notes for a rewrite is the sort of black-humor icing that tops off much of this highly anecdotal read...
...person, Kerrey is the antithesis of a party hack. With his macrocephalic head and mesmeric blue eyes, he comes across as a winsome extraterrestrial. Even more exotic among politicians, he actually seems to be thinking while he talks, and given the opportunity, he'll talk about anything but politics. While taking a stroll along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, killing time before a fund raiser for Illinois senatorial candidate Dick Durbin, Kerrey provides a magical mystery tour of his mind: he mentions how much he relishes mathematical constants ("I have a love affair with figures that stay constant, like gravity...
Just because NASTASSJA KINSKI has made an action movie (Terminal Velocity) and is starring in a film originally conceived by schlock-hack Joe Eszterhas, don't think she has lost her art-house intensity. One Night Stand, which also stars WESLEY SNIPES, may sound like the name of a Showgirls sequel, but according to Kinski, it ain't so. "The title is fooling us," Kinski says. "This is an important film. It has to do with a man and a woman. It has to do with what we all look for in our lives." Besides, Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas...
...instant book, once the domain of hack publishers like Dove Books and disreputable semi-authors like Rosa Lopez, is taken to a new level of respectability with In the Name of Sorrow and Hope. Despite the rapidity of its printing (the epilogue is dated March 1996, and it was published on April 8) and its pamphlet length (180 undersized pages), the occasion on which this book seeks to capitalize is considerably more serious than the O.J. trial: it is the memoir of Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, the same one who spoke so movingly at his memorial service in November...