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Jack Ryan assumes the post of his good friend Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) without fully realizing that his underlings and co-workers are surreptitiously plotting against him. He wants to be up front in his dealings with the Columbian drug lord Ernesto Escobedo (Miguel Sandoval). He wants to stomp out their operations, but not at the cost of human, especially American, life. Suffice it to say that everyone is double-crossed during the film. Those who were at one time enemies become friends, and friends become foe. When all is said and done, Ryan is the single remaining...
...Hollywood commodity even rarer these days than a pretty woman. Films don't breeze; they wheeze. Directors aren't pastry chefs anymore; they are construction foremen. Watching I Love Trouble, you can see the erection of a new Julia Roberts statue. The monument is eye-catching but bland, and Lord, it must weigh...
...fallen television evangelist Jim Bakker is expected to be released from prison tomorrow, four and a half years after he was put away for stealing $150 million his Praise the Lord Club followers. He'll go to a halfway house in Asheville, NC where the former reverend will work for an unknown local business...
...shaped ornament on his conical helmet and large discs in his ears is ever present. From a goblet he drinks the blood of murdered prisoners. Scholars had speculated that these were mythical representations, but imposing regalia and ornaments placed around the 1,700-year-old corpse of the Sipan Lord and found in one of the other tombs gave the ceremonial slayings a grisly new meaning. From his attire, he was recognized as the Warrior Priest and the principal figure in representations of a rite of human sacrifice that held great significance for the Moche. Adorned in gold and with...
...permanent display in the Bruning museum, where a specially constructed $800,000 wing will be financed partly by proceeds from the U.S. tour. It is not inconceivable that Sipan will someday rival Machu Picchu as a destination for scholars and tourists. From the shadows of the past, Sipan's Lord will have returned in glory to cast a golden glow over his country...