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...revealing little. The message to Breslin showed that Son of Sam seemed to enjoy his grisly game with police. "Please inform all the detectives working the case that I wish them the best of luck," he wrote. "Keep 'em digging, drive on, think positive, get off your butts, knock on coffins, etc. Upon my capture I promise to buy all the guys working on the case a new pair of shoes if I can get up the money." The Son of Sam label lost some of its mystery when police confirmed they had coined it. The killer had claimed...
...picture's best sight gag may be leaves blowing off a calendar to symbolize the passage of time. So many of them are caught in the breeze that they knock down and almost bury Spike Milligan, playing an aged retainer trapped in their path...
Certainly a principal purpose of human government must be to mitigate the unfairness that seems to be an integral part of human life-or, at the very least, not to compound it. The judicial system is meant to mediate, to knock the chaos of human behavior into a manageable pattern. The goal of fairness underlies American education, which has been regarded, sometimes more hopefully than accurately, as the way to give everyone an equal chance. Medicaid was meant to provide fairness in health care, so that if a poor man needs an $800 appendectomy or a $15,000 coronary bypass...
...correct the sexist treatment of women so common in such comedies. Embodied in such catch-all phrases as "charming" or "crazy" lies a blatant sexist attitude which suggests that women wearing nothing but loosely buttoned men's shirts three sizes too large for them, or women who irresponsibly knock over lamps, smash holes in shipbottoms, who make themselves a general and continual pain are excusable if--and only if--they possess enough sex appeal in their baby toenail to put an army of men on the scent for months. Beyond the purely visual level, Deneuve's appeal lies...
...mercurial moods that marked his early career seldom surface. "When I ask Charryse what Daddy does, she says, 'Daddy strikes out. I explain to her that Daddy doesn't strike out very often. But how can you get mad at fans when your own kids knock you? I leave my game at the park. When I go home to play with my kids, they don't care if I went 0 for 4. They're happy to see me. In the end, it's your family that matters. They're there no matter what...