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DIED. LILLIAN DISNEY, 98, Walt Disney's benevolent widow, who helped found the California Institute of the Arts; in Los Angeles. Disney coined the moniker Mickey Mouse, wisely persuading her husband to give up his choice: Mortimer...
...injury. Counts 4-11: First Degree Murder The grand jury further charges on or about April 19, 1995, at Oklahoma City, McVeigh and Nichols did, with premeditation and malice aforethought, cause the killing of the following persons engaged in the performance of official duties as law enforcement officers: Mickey Bryant Maroney, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Donald R. Leonard, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Alan Gerald Whicher, assistant special agent in charge, U.S. Secret Service; Cynthia Lynn Campbell-Brown Special, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Kenneth Glenn McCullough, special agent, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Paul Douglas Ice, special agent...
...storytelling grace that was a trademark of his earlier pictures. With Jack and now John Grisham's The Rainmaker, there is the tragic possibility that Coppola is in a disconcerting decline. Indeed, there is a sad moment in Rainmaker when Rudy is introduced to the sleazy lawyer Bruiser (Mickey Rourke). Bruiser's office is appropriately gloomy and uninviting--there is a tank of menacing sharks stationed behind his desk. We smile at the touch and appreciate the subtlety. Coppola, however, feels it necessary to explain his "genius." In the middle of the conversation, Bruiser interrupts to ask Rudy...
Danny Glover, Virginia Madsen and Mickey Rourke are solid in their supporting roles. Matt Damon, however, isn't given much of a chance to show off his acting. Unlike McConaughey in A Time to Kill, Damon has to deal with a character void of nuance, subtlety and originality. His personality is best summed up in his much-repeated mantra, "I want to expose these people." Damon, struggling under the burden of such hackneyed lines, is given little chance to show sensitivity or idiosyncrasy. Over the course of the film, Rudy becomes less the hero and more of a stock supporting...
Meantime, however, a couple of cheers for Coppola, who satisfies at least one ruling critical principle: any movie that offers successful employment to Mickey Rourke and Teresa Wright cannot be all bad. He's the only shyster in town who's willing to take a chance on young Rudy; she's his landlady who is nowhere near as ditsy as she looks. And like the rest of a constantly bestartling supporting cast, led by Jon Voight and Danny DeVito as deliciously disparate masters of legal sleaze, they're terrific. Another good rule is not to take Grisham novels as seriously...