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...hairless, poisoned shell of yourself, without drowning in Why me? All lives are equally precious, but swashbuckling politicians who swagger through life surrounded by aides whispering in their ears, who exercise power over people like House Speaker Tip O'Neill (who once referred to the upstart Jordan as Hannibal Jerkin), shock us when they're stricken...
...There and the film Time Bandits, Voyagers! (NBC, Sunday, 7-8 p.m.) features Jon-Erik Hexum as a pilgrim from the future who crash-lands in the apartment of a lonely city boy (Meeno Peluce). Hexum, who is rigged out in knee boots, tight trou and leather jerkin, looks to have lost his way en route to a community-theater production of The Pirates of Penzance, but convinces the incredulous Peluce of his credentials by whisking him off to Egypt, 1450 B.C., where they discover Moses in the bulrushes; France, 1918, where they frolic during World War Iand Dayton, where...
When Jordan last week asked O'Neill for some advice, the crusty Speaker, who has long called the new chief of staff "Hannibal Jerkin," scolded the White House aide about his failure to deal with Congress. Said the Speaker: "There should be close relations between the Congress and the man who has the President's ear. I've never understood why he wasn't at the leadership breakfasts." But by meeting's end O'Neill had turned avuncular, giving Jordan a list of names of Congressmen and key aides he should get to know...
...they are almost as sluggishly filmed as the sex scenes. That leaves the dialogue to pass the time, so we are treated to Olivier saying, after startling a skeptical Tommy Lee Jones with a finished engine for the dream car, "Did you think I was just an old man jerkin' off?" And poor Katherine Ross, who can't resist father-in-law Olivier after witnessing his potency with the French maid, crawls into bed with him and says, "I'm sorry, but I had to be close," and later, "I love you, Loren, even if I have to be damned...
...amateur gunslinger: "Ragazzo, e l'whisky che lavora [Boy, your whisky is too strong]." His angry Italian rings strangely in that watering place of the American frontier. His opponent is fast on the draw, but not fast enough: on the stairway appears a girl in fringed jerkin and boots, firing from the hip. The revolver spins out of the gunslinger's hand. The girl strides coolly across the bar. "Vi do la buona sera, sceriffo" she says to the sheriff...