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...Moviegoers are tired of action-adventure movies. No, studio bosses are tired of making them. Macho mayhem still turns the wickets: Terminator 2 and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves were last year's top money winners. The summer before, five actioners (Total Recall, Another 48 Hours, Dick Tracy, Days of Thunder and Die Hard 2) opened in five weeks -- overloading even a male teenager's adrenaline system, it was thought -- and pulled in an average of $100 million. People will pay to see them, but studios don't want to pay the huge freight: $60 million or more, plus mammoth...
...after the Rodney King beating. Instead, the city's civil service laws give Mayor Tom Bradley no authority over the city's top cop, who can be fired only for corruption or criminal behavior. During his 14 years as chief, the controversial Gates had set the tenor of a macho, take- no-nonsense police force. Despite cries for his resignation, Gates clung to his job -- and only reluctantly agreed to retire at the end of June. It was too late. On April 29, 3 1/2 hours after the verdict in the King case was announced, Gates left his office...
...another in-your-face metaphysical infuriator. And from San Quentin, Calif., after a 14-year legal preliminary, a night of ghastly last-minute appeals and strap-him-in-take-him- out action as double-murderer Robert Alton Harris flirts with cyanide and exhales death-row doggerel. (Close-up. Harris, macho-sardonic: "You can be a king or a street sweeper,/ But everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.") Back after this...
...sure there's a play here, but there's certainly a playwright." Just such tempered optimism is being triggered right now by two emotionally intense, fiercely funny and sadly flawed works by dramatists in their early 30s. One writer -- Howard Korder -- has the slam-bang dialogue and macho preoccupations of a David Mamet in training. The other -- Jon Robin Baitz -- can infuse domestic drama with the burdens of history in the fashion of a budding Arthur Miller. But neither can yet write two cumulative and cohesive acts. In each of their current offerings, one act sings, the other doesn...
...Robert Bly and the men's movement, macho grafitti displays may seem passe. Where's all the writing from the new, sensitive males? Not in Harvard bathrooms, evidently, where men tend to discuss sex and sexuality with violent overtones...