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...singer's 1937 death is peripheral to the main plot which centers around a bigoted white nurse (Marie Larkin), her "liberal-thinking" doctor boyfriend (Gavin Barbour) and the hospital's black orderly (Gut Bushfan). In an attempt to maintain universality, the characters are nameless, and yet they are too textured to be archetypal. The nurse wields as much authority as she can, threatening to have both the orderly--who is more educated than she--as well as the doctor who is always standing up for "them nigger," fired...
When Bessie's companion Jack (Keith Mascoll)enters the scene desperately seeking medicalattention, he is turned away by the nearesthospital because he is black. His appearance atthe hospital, where the main action is staged,adds a new fold to the already existing racialtension. The white doctor and orderly risk theirjobs to help, symbolically with blood on theirhands. The doctor asks, "Did you know when youbrought her here that she was dead?" The ensuingmonologue is badly handled. Indeed Mascoll is theweakest of the cast's links. From beginning to endhe is inconsistent with focal points and oftenspeaks in an unnaturally high...
Sounds pretty exciting, doesn't it? Like maybe the main character will be some sort of cyborg police officer saving the world from space pirates in the year 3020. Well, he's not, and it would be a stretch to call this movie exciting. A mighty long stretch...
...Tough Cop is inspired by a book of the same name by Bo Dietl, the main character of the movie. The real Dietl gained recognition when he caught two men who raped and nearly killed a nun in a New York City convent in 1981, resolving what then-mayor Ed Koch called "the most heinous crime in the history of New York City." The movie includes this event, as well as Dietl's friendly relations with members of the mob and his problems with the police station hierarchy. It looks like screenplay writer Jeremy Iacone, however, relied on more than...
...chaos, Ravi reigns, Alessi at his side, delicately raging as the new giant of jazz. His father, who created avant-garde jazz, said, "The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe." Ravi is continuing to give beauty to the timeless appeal of jazz. He is handling us, showing us "Moving Pictures" of his world, timing the images to the pulse of history and the song of the future. Here stands the physique of John, the dignity of Ravi...