Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HALF ITS LENGTH THE PICture shambles along, perfunctory, rhythmless, misdirected, wasting the time of the moviegoer who couldn't get into Lethal Weapon 3 next door. Then the ragged choir of St. Katherine's convent swings into a tambourine-rattling version of Smokey Robinson's My Guy -- "There's not a man today/ Who could take me away/ From my God" -- and Sister Act instantly enslaves its audience. A few more tunes, a chase, a conversion % (nowadays every movie needs one), and by its end, the picture exudes the odor of a summer...
...MURTAUGH (DANNY GLOVer) to keep pulling unlighted cigarettes out of his partner's mouth. Since the cops' lives are a nonstop succession of explosions, fire fights and car chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added Rene Russo...
...Stars on the screen put fannies in the seats. Sure, but what's a star? * Mel Gibson? In Lethal Weapon movies, but not in Hamlet. Steve Martin? In Father of the Bride, but not in L.A. Story. Over the past three years, only three actors -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Costner and Sean Connery -- have starred in two $100 million-plus pictures. Just one performer has starred in three. But Julia Roberts is taking the year...
...crowd moved on to an unprotected Thrifty drugstore a block away, which they proceeded to strip. The police waited patiently at Vons until the looters began leaving Thrifty and then -- and only then -- did they move in with sirens blaring to "secure" the area. Meanwhile, in this languid, but lethal, game of cat and mouse, the mob moved three blocks down the street to attack a Find It All electronics store. The police waited from the safety of Thrifty before finally moving to try to capture the last few stragglers at the Find It All store. The police grabbed several...
...inhaling cyanide gas, by electrocution or -- the newest method and a dog's death in more ways than one -- by being administered poison through an intravenous drip. Unlike at the mall, though, there isn't much choice at the retail level. Only Utah (shooting or hanging) and Idaho (lethal injection or firing squad) offer the customer a limited say in how he (death row's population is 98.5% male) goes...