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ENTER THE FIRST complication. Jack, a gruff, gentle-looking newspaperman, claims that he is innocent. Enter the second complication. Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close), a hotshot, tough-talking lawyer, believes that Jack is telling the truth, so convincing herself of his innocence that she falls in love with him. From this point the movie winds on, full of emotional tension: love entangled with mistrust and evidence confused with truth. The conclusion, of course, must be kept a secret. The only guarantee is that it will be a complete surprise...
...Hotshot split end John Garrett, the coach's son, injured his collarbone and won't see action today, but tight end Mark Milam will try to pick up the receiving slack...
...shake things up, it took another wave of immigrants: the influx of sophisticated foreign films in the late '50s and early '60s. Soon every young Hollywood hotshot wanted to make movies just like Fellini's, or Bergman's, or Francois Truffaut's. A picture's subject could be uniquely American, but its style would be self-consciously "artistic" (read European). Two Hollywood hits of 1967 strikingly assimilated these international trends: Bonnie and Clyde, originally offered to Truffaut to direct, and The Graduate, in which Berlin-born Director Mike Nichols ransacked the mannerisms of a dozen art- house auteurs to tell...
...winsome, but because they are reminders of our own, still vivid, elementary school memories. In the dance "Classroom", Peck uses only members from the CityStep company, blurring the distinction between adult and child. Suddenly we are oack in that interminable fifth grade history class, bothered by that hotshot who always knows the answers, scornful of the peabrain who thinks she knows the answer but then cannot get it out. The hands of the clock drag, boredom sets in. The dancers wriggle and twist, twirling their legs around their chairs in every possible expression of restlessness. The final deep sleep...
...into the night. Once the movie wakes up, it never lets up, in pace or plot invention. Seems Diana / has smuggled past Customs six priceless emeralds "from the scepter of an ancient Persian king" and concealed them (we won't say where) for delivery to one of those hotshot sheiks who in the past decade have turned parts of L.A. into a Little Araby. As for ordinary Ed, he will risk death, betrayal and another 24 hours of sleeplessness because he is drawn to this diamond-hard Circe who confides, "I'm one of the bad guys...