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...name is Freddy Heflin, and in Cop Land--a sharp-eyed character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta...
...Land scans like an Eastern Western: High Noon without the clock, or a Shane in which the hero is the homesteader (played by Van Heflin, whose name has an echo in Freddy's). "I wanted to make a simple morality play," says James Mangold, 33, the writer-director whose only previous feature was the low-budget love story Heavy but who manages the complex story and big-name cast with a veteran's assurance. Mangold grew up in a blue-collar town near West Point, up the Hudson from the film's fictional Garrison, N.J. It was filled with "cops...
Democrats lost an Alabama Senate seat when Richard Shelby switched parties. Now, with Howell Heflin stepping down, they could lose the other. But Bedford, who underwent a 1990 bone-marrow transplant to combat cancer, is a fighter with the experience to win. Campaigning on a family-and-faith platform, he opposes school vouchers and supports federal programs that help children...
Bill Bradley, D-N.J. Hank Brown, R-Colo. William S. Cohen, R-Maine Bob Dole, R-Kans. Jim Exon, D-Neb. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore. Howell Heflin, D-Ala. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kans. Sam Nunn, D-Ga. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. David Pryor, D-Ark. Paul Simon, D-Ill. Alan K. Simpson...
Three-term Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin said he would not seek re-election next year, bringing to four the number of Senate Democrats who plan to retire. In a speech on the Senate floor, the 73-year-old former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, who has suffered from a series of medical problems, said "the time to pass the torch to another generation is near." Heflin's decision makes it tougher for Democrats to strengthen their 54-46 Senate minority in the 1996 elections (Alabama is now largely Republican). At least three Democrats -- Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia...