Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some party pros think a small nominating field would be ideal for Cuomo, with his national recognition and capacity to raise money. Says pollster Harrison Hickman: "He could be the Democratic pope, arguing points of fundamental theology directly with Bush." Whichever Democrats decide to go for it after November, their efforts will seem less suicidal than conventional wisdom had it for 18 months...
...warned, however, that the opening scene is not representative of the rest of the film. In a flat and uninspired directorial decision the movie begins with a camera shot of an empty courtroom, and a voice-over by Harrison Ford. Ford does the typical introductory over-dramatization: "I am a prosecutor. I put people behind bars..." No, this will not be the first movie you have seen that focuses on harried big-city lawyers battling each other. Give the movie some time, though, because it does become steadily more intriguing...
...senses such an opportunity when one of his own prosecutors, Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi) is found bludgeoned to death in her apartment one night after seemingly being raped and tied up. Feeling that the balance of his career as a prosecutor rests on this case, Horgan assigns Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford), his chief deputy and right hand man, to investigate it. Sabich, a married man who was actually obsessed with Polhemus after she terminated their secret affair, protests only mildly before accepting the assignment...
...charity the $95,000 he received in excess of allowable speaking fees and another $29,000 he pocketed by charging the government rent for staying in a . Minneapolis condominium that he owned. Only expulsion, which the ethics committee last recommended in 1981 for New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams for his part in the Abscam scandal, would have been more severe...
Conscientiousness may, indeed, be part of the problem. In converting the story of Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford), a public prosecutor forced by circumstantial evidence and local political imperatives to stand trial for the murder of Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi), an upper-slutty colleague, Pakula seems overawed by the book's critical and popular success. Whatever its other virtues, Presumed Innocent was basically a page turner; the movie is a slow burner...