Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coup in Uganda involved a classic case of arms bouncing from country to country. The five Sherman tanks used by General Idi Amin Dada in the army revolt against President Milton Obote were originally sent by Washington to the Soviets under the World War II Lend-Lease Act. Moscow later transferred them to the Egyptians, from whom they were captured by the Israelis in 1967. Israel overhauled the tanks and then delivered them to Uganda as part of an aid program...
...SECOND ACT is a version of "Paradise Rejected" and gives LaZebnik a chance to play around with Milton and Shakespeare jokes. Some are good: "To be or not to be," someone begins. "Well, there's nothing to be gained by pursuing that line of thought." The appearance onstage of Satan, Adam, Eve, and God (as well as a deadpin walk-on by St. Peter Borowitz that steals the show for a few moments is a source or clever lines for LaZebnik, usually Satan sings...
Directed by MILTON KATSELAS...
...street intelligence apparently alien to everyone involved with Report to the Commissioner, such a theme could have made a strong movie. As played-badly-by Michael Moriarty, Beauregard ("Bo") Lockley is less a cop of high principle than one of low IQ. With no perceptible help from Director Milton Katselas (Forty Carats), Moriarty cooks up a caricature of a sad-sack flatfoot, slow on the draw and even slower on wit. Although excuses are supplied for his presence on the force - his father was a cop, but standards have slipped since the old days - Moriarty overplays Bo so desperately that...
...Milt Brown is out to protect himself," Marvin said, referring to Milton P. Brown. Lincoln Filene professor of Retailing and president of the Coop. "It's like in the Godfather, he's just out to protect his own," Marvin said...