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...delve deeper into the murder, both become obsessed with it in different ways. Blanchard becomes addicted to Benzedrine and holes himself up in an apartment gazing at Short’s photographs. Bleichert becomes involved with the dangerous Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), a supposed dead ringer for Elizabeth Short (even though she looks nothing like her, a plot point the apparently bothered only me). Both uncover a conspiracy that threatens to ruin their relationship and their integrity...
...Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter series), who plays Ramona Linscott, Swank’s mother, is spellbindingly theatrical and genuinely funny. I think she is supposed to be disturbing and seriously deranged and neither of these things are humorous, but no matter. I take entertainment where I can find...
...most of the film's other police officers are seen to be honest, if rather dull, fellows, this plot strand doesn't elicit much shock or insight, either. But the silliest aspect of the film is the relationship that develops between Hartnett's Bucky and an heiress named Madeleine Linscott (Hillary Swank). They meet in a lesbian bar (more L.A. decadence for you), but she turns out to be resolutely heterosexual, very rich and-need we say it?-that most conventional of film noir figures, the spider woman luring the besotted male close to doom and even closer...
Translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts...
There is a similar lowering of voices-and turning inward-elsewhere in New England. One sign is the sharp decline in the number of letters to the editors of newspapers. Said Roger Linscott, associate editor of the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.: "It's not apathy. People are involved in public affairs, but it's all local, at-home stuff." Town meetings in rural Amherst, N.H., have drawn overflow, boisterous crowds to debate how to limit the community's growth. Hundreds of demonstrators have virtually halted plans to build a nuclear power plant at Seabrook...