Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tabb 1 (Hanson...
...imitations of it has become one of modern Hollywood's minor vices. But--a point usually missed--the style was never an end in itself. At its best it conveyed an idea about how the rottenness of big cities touches everyone, high and low, respectable and raffish. Director Curtis Hanson, working off James Ellroy's bitterly brewed novel about corrupt 1950s cops, gets that wonderfully right in a smart, complex film that exuberantly mixes comic excess, melodramatic pressure, romantic rue and an almost casual murderousness...
Carville's red sweater and khakis stood out from the dark suits of co-panelists Charles Black, a Republican political strategist, journalist Jules Witcover and moderator Jill Hanson who was the national political director for the Dole-Kemp 1996 campaign...
...Kealty (Hanson, Quebec...
...effective narrator, Berendt's brilliant anecdotes are enslaved by the "trial plot," which the writers have chosen to reign supreme over the storyline. The movie starts to play like a day at the zoo: look at the goofy Southern people! Strong personalities like the volatile hustler Billy Hanson (played awkwardly by Jude Law) dissolve into mere plot devices or cheap gags. The score doesn't help (Billy Hanson enters room, cue fore-boding music. Drag queen walks down the street, cue sultry saxophone...