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...human response to rabies can be as savage as the disease's symptoms. In 1986 a rabid cat bit a woman in central Pennsylvania. Before long, a mob armed with shotguns and baseball bats approached an enclosure where an 80-year-old man kept dozens of cats. The group fired shots in the air before cooling down and deciding to back...
...surveillance men hired by Jimmy Hoffa. The Teamsters boss even orders Bobby killed, but the would-be assassin, after training his telescopic sight on the couple smooching in a park, chickens out. Good thing, since Mafia boss Sam Giancana shortly thereafter tells Hoffa to lay off because the Mob is "doing a little business" with the Kennedy brothers...
...flying. "E-mail is the last refuge of a scoundrel," said one. But there were plenty of opponents of the "outing" of Mr. X. "I haven't seen anything posted here that suggests he did anything evil," said a veteran WELL user. "The ugliness here smacks of a lynch mob out for good old-fashioned vengeance...
...hard to sort out at times, the problems they face aren't. A 15-year-old boy is falling in with the wrong crowd on the streets. A single mother tries to put her life back together after drug rehabilitation. The manager of a clothing store owned by the Mob is lured into a steroid-fencing scheme by an old friend. A high school basketball star is benched for a bad attitude, ruining his chance to impress a college scout. All the action takes place over a single weekend; there are crises and confrontations, small changes but no big conclusions...
...pricey cast (Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley) make the machinery purr. The writers have corrected the book's dangling threat -- how to confront and cleverly resolve Mitch's brief disloyalty to Abby -- and its stodgy ending. The movie's moral is that however corrupt the Mob is, these lawyers are worse. Better for Mitch to cut a deal with a don than to let the firm stay in business...