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...they want to curb Clinton's effectiveness, but the President is the Michael Jordan of politics: the more adversity he faces, the more he scores. His leadership has given the country its best time in decades, detractors notwithstanding. Go for it, Mr. President, and give us another slam dunk! LUCIEN LECOMTE Los Angeles...
...realm of the ordinary--the strips about "everyday life." From a slightly slatternly, stay-at-home bourgeois family (Christian Binet's "Les Bidochon"), to a grumpy, jaded modern student (Claire Bretecher's adventures of "Agrippine"), to a wide-eyed, pompadoured, out-of-place teenage suburban rocker (Frank Mergerin's "Lucien"), Francophone strips manage to make the banal intriguing, a worthy topic...
...look as if they shower with Vaseline--the story is simple, yet stirring: rednecks rape a black girl; the girl's father, Carl Lee (Samuel L. Jackson), retaliates with murder; he goes on trial in a racially volatile atmosphere. Enter his idealistic young lawyer, Jake (Matthew McConaughey); his mentor, Lucien (Donald Sutherland); the ruthless prosecutor (Kevin Spacey); and a Klan member or two (e.g. Kiefer Sutherland)--the story's ready-made. Sandra Bullock weaves her way through the story as Jake's indispensable assistant...
...Wellesesque laboratory where he can try to extract the dreams of young children, unfortunately without success. Krank's henchmen are the fanatic Cyclops cult, an army of blind men, whose sight and hearing are enhanced by Krank's electronic inventions. A little boy, Denree (Joseph Lucien, who has the biggest eyes and oral fixation of any young actor in a surrealist movie in recent memory), is one of the children kidnapped, and his adopted older brother, One (Ron Perlman, showing that the giant chin he sported in The Name of the Rose was no mere makeup), a fun fair strongman...
DIED. LOUIS MALLE, 63, French film director; of complications from lymphoma; in Beverly Hills. Working on both sides of the Atlantic, Malle unflinchingly explored topics like incest (1971's Le Souffle au Coeur), France's collaboration with its Nazi occupiers (Lacombe, Lucien, 1974) and child prostitution (1978's Pretty Baby, his first American film, which also launched Brooke Shields). Yet Malle's high-voltage subject matter contrasted with an often reflective style that reached its apex in his second American film Atlantic City (1981), which starred Burt Lancaster as an aging hood playing out the role of dashing outlaw that...