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...professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton was found dead in his office last October, shot in the neck by a .25-cal. pistol that lay in his hand, police at first suspected suicide. Several hours later, they arrested the man who reported the crime, Minh Van Lam, 21, a Vietnamese immigrant and former student of Cooperman's. Lam later admitted shooting the gray-haired professor, but insisted it was an accident that happened while the two of them were "playing around" with the pistol at Cooperman's suggestion...
...Lam's murder trial begins next week, however, the focus will be not on the suspect but on his victim. Whatever the immediate cause of the killing, Cooperman's case has already exposed a tale of sex and international intrigue. Defense Attorney Alan May argues that Cooperman, 48, was a secret agent for Viet Nam. Indeed, Hanoi has accused the CIA of masterminding the death. Cooperman's friends and relatives ridicule such allegations, but they too think the shooting was political: the professor's well-known sympathy for the Communist regime in Hanoi made him highly unpopular among Vietnamese immigrants...
...Lam and another student maintain that Cooperman, who was married and the father of two teen-age daughters, gave studded leather jackets to several of his male Vietnamese students and liked to wrestle with them on his office floor. In his office police found homosexual magazines and photos of Cooperman with provocatively dressed young Asian men. Lam says he once asked Cooperman why he did not simply stop working on behalf of Viet Nam. "I can't," Cooperman reportedly replied. "It's too late and I'm in too deep...
...rarely accelerates into the power drive of a slick Hollywood vehicle. Instead it tells its story in the form of a hashish pipedream conjured up by Noodles, slipping back to memories of 1921 and forward to a nightmare of 1968 as whim and reverie possess this gangster on the lam. Leone is less interested in arousing an audience's easier emotions than in presenting, at a dispassionate distance, the horror of two men warily walking toward each other on a tightrope suspended above the snake pit of their , deepest compulsions...
...busily filling out their income tax returns when two horned devils from Hades, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, try to seize power. But in the finale the good Lord Mitterrand in gilded pajamas-aided by winged archangels in silver-lamé union suits-repulses the celestial coup attempt by beating back the interlopers with long-stemmed Socialist roses...