Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court system is already heavily stacked against the possibility of women and children receiving any kind of fair treatment in cases of rape and incest. Witness the much-publicized situation of Elizabeth Morgan, whose ex-husband, Eric Foretich, allegedly raped their infant daughter Hilary...
Medical testimony-of Foretich's abuse of a young daughter by another marriage was deemed not admissible as evidence. The judge thought there was "a fifty-fifty chance" that Foretich was guilty, and gave him unsupervised visitation rights. Defying a court order, Morgan hid her daughter away rather than return her to her father. Somehow Morgan, not her ex-husband, ended up in jail, without a trial, for more than two years...
JOHNNY HANDSOME. A rarity among crime thrillers, this film is as intelligent as it is well made. A supposedly reformed underworld character (Mickey Rourke) plots an elegant caper against some double-crossing crooks, under the eye of a savvy, cynical cop (Morgan Freeman...
...something neater, more palatable, more conventionally "dramatic." Mental institutions are filled with raving loonies; murderers move in grainy, horrific slow motion; civil rights leaders look like James Earl Jones. There was no better drama on TV last week than the joint appearance on ABC's Nightline of Dr. Elizabeth Morgan and the ex-husband she has accused of molesting their daughter. No re-creation could possibly capture that. Let's hope no journalist tries...
...performance many still consider definitive. In 1961, when she appeared in The Lady from the Sea, critic Kenneth Tynan said, "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear of it." By 1967 she was up for an Oscar as Best Actress for Morgan!, competing with her sister, who was nominated for Georgy Girl. (They lost to Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...