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Execution of Justice by Emily Mann. Dan White was a Viet Nam paratrooper, then a policeman, a fireman and supervisor of San Francisco's Eighth District. On Nov. 27, 1978, he shot and killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first avowed homosexual elected to high city office. The trial of Dan White was a horrifying sensation; the verdict, guilty of voluntary manslaughter, was an outrage, especially to San Francisco's large population of gays. When White was released from prison this January, a little more than four years after the trial, some militant homosexuals called...
...unrepentant radical Jacob, Paul Sparer provides a sense of guttering energy that is supposed to illuminate the hopes of the young. It does nothing of the kind. Brother and sister, husband and lover all perform in a declamatory style more appropriate to pageants than to plays. Moreover, Theodore Mann's direction takes the Bergers' zoo story and makes it sprawl inappropriately on the Circle in the Square's arena stage. Seen in the round, Odets is cruelly exposed; phrases that once seemed freshly coined on the streets of New York now appear to have been copied from...
...library include a first edition of Karl Marx's 1848 Communist Manifesto; practical books describing how to be shrewd businessman in the 18th century; old broadsides which were never bound and served as vehicles of protest; business periodicals which record the social life of past generations; and even "Thomas Mann's renowned treatise in which he defines the doctrine of the balance of trade...
...many of today's talented directors, moviemaking means swathing a scarecrow story line in rapturous images. Michael Mann's The Keep is one such Museum Movie. It boasts some pictures as pretty as any to be seen on a gallery wall, and, in narrative terms, it is a mess...
...Brian Busconi (Rob Ohno Peter Follows) 4.41 M. Ray Jacques (Todd Bjorkstrand Rene Comeault) 19:45 H. Ohno (Follows), 8.29; M. Jacques (Bjorkstrand, Jay Mazur), 11:30 M. Kevin Mann (Steve Santini, Comeault), 13:49: H. Shayne Kukulowicz (Tony Visone...