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...weighed down by the career expectations--his own as well as others'--that have enveloped him since Schindler's List. "Eighty-five percent of the movies I see depress me," he confesses. "I get to page 25 of a script, and I think, I don't know why the hell they want me for this. I call it the blessing and the curse of Schindler's List--the blessing of having done it and the curse of having to compare everything I see to that standard of writing." Indeed, it seems that Neeson hasn't quite let go of Schindler...
...with men off at war and women taking their place in the factories, Hollywood turned paranoid. Film noir made the black widow an embodiment of evil as seductive as she was destructive. What man wouldn't want to go to hell with Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice? What man wouldn't prefer hell to two days in a motel room with the spectacularly shrewish Ann Savage in Detour...
...telegenic and controversial head of Planned Parenthood from 1978 to 1992, Wattleton winces at phrases like "common ground" when applied to the subject of reproductive rights for women. For Wattleton, whose mother was a traveling Fundamentalist preacher for the Church of God, right and wrong--like heaven and hell--are very clearly defined...
...great find is Hell-Bent for Election, a 13-minute cartoon sponsored by the United Auto Workers to promote Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 re-re-re-election. Joe, a burly blond workingman, must assure that the Win the War Special (a high-speed train with F.D.R.'s smiling profile on the engine) gets to Washington ahead of the G.O.P.'s 1929 Defeatist Limited. Directed by the immortal Chuck Jones, with music by Earl Robinson and E.Y. Harburg, Hell-Bent for Election is visually imaginative and giddily unfair (for a moment the Republican villain metamorphoses into Hitler). It anchors a smart...
...courtroom as Davis asserted that the reason he did not sexually assault Polly on the night he killed her was "a statement the young girl made to me while walking her up the embankment: 'Just don't do me like my Dad.'" A family friend yelled, "Burn in hell, Davis!" and Davis' lawyer covered her face with her hands. After a second of frozen shock, Polly's father Marc Klaas leaped from his seat, but he was restrained and led from the courtroom...