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...paper" beep from the printer: when the spacecraft have been hovering over the cities for a while, Los Angeleans are given the warning only Los Angeleans would need: not to fire their weapons into the air at the spaceships. When Captain Hiller finally faces off with one of the horrid space aliens, he does what anyone really, really mad would do: he slugs...
Thanks to Boston's normally horrid month of March, the Crimson's early season wasn't quite what it would have liked. Its only three games originally scheduled for March were B.C., UMass and then Princeton, but the contest against the Minutewomen was moved to May and the B.C. game was played literally minutes after plows shoved the snow to the side of Alumni Stadium...
From the loft's cavernous elevator emerge some of the play's best performances. Sissy Bemiss Darnley (J. Smith Cameron), Nan's horrid daughter, rages through the studio proclaiming with monosyllabic hillarity--"It's hip, it's hot, it's space, it's art, it's a loft." Marcus (Thomas Derrah) and Katrin Dowling (Francine Torres, Ma Ubu of "Ubu Rock"), a pair of kooky magazine publishers and the token true hipsters of the production, persuade Alex to photograph their daughter Guernica's sixth birthday party...
...standing around in a G-string with tissues stuffed up her nose. "I have even gone so far as to roll around in a semiclad state on piles of money and Michael Douglas," she says. All for just a few million lousy bucks. But it's not endlessly horrid. "You just have to remind yourself that you may get stuck with hairpins every day, but you can also get Tom Jones in person for your husband's birthday...
Possibly true. Some filmmakers on a mission, moreover, can be guilty of bombastic overkill. Indictment begins with an ominous message-"This story happened in America in our times''-and has the sanctimonious tone of people who think they are discovering a horrid injustice for the first time. Indeed, Indictment makes its point far less subtly and effectively than such nonfiction works as The Thin Blue Line or the Frontline documentaries, which examined court cases that had been less thoroughly hashed over than the McMartin case. Still, for all its journalistic pretensions, Indictment is powerful and affecting television...