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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, John Elson, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...generally wooden cameos. Thus Julius meets Tom Waits, who plays Elmore's sleazy brother, for about five minutes, or long enough to get ripped off by him. Then Julius meets Dr. John, who plays Elmore's sleazy brother-in-law, for another five minutes and is again ripped off. Leon Redbone gets about six minutes as a silent Canadian deputy who--guess what?--rips Julius off. Poor Joe Strummer doesn't even get the opportunity; he plays a security guard with no particular significance plot-wise and is on screen for maybe three minutes...
...doesn't take a genius to figure out that something is wrong here. Come on, who casts Buster Poindexter, Tom Waits, Leon Redbone, Dr. John and Joe Strummer in a movie and then doesn't let them play? (I mean, besides Alex Cox, who did the same thing in the even more pernicious Straight to Hell...
...made no bones about being an arm of the P.L.O., which makes few bones about engaging in terrorism. Just last spring the P.L.O. decided to retain Abul Abbas on its executive committee, even though he masterminded the 1985 hijack of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, in which elderly American Leon Klinghoffer was murdered...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, John Elson, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow