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...Swaggart summoned him to a makeshift tribunal at Swaggart's First Assembly headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., where Gorman was confronted with charges of adultery and pressured into resigning his ministry immediately. Gorman closed the circle two years later when he unveiled surveillance photos of Swaggart emerging from a motel room with a prostitute. That led in short order to Swaggart's ouster and the gradual dissipation of his far larger teleministry. But wrecking his nemesis -- while offering ostensibly sympathetic prayers for him -- did not satisfy Gorman. Now he is suing for wealth he believes would have been his were...
...like Clint Eastwood than Katharine Hepburn. The day after her near rape, Thelma is begging Louise to pick up a hitchhiker. It requires a breathtaking midair somersault of faith to believe Thelma would be eager to take up with another stranger so soon and would let him into her motel room and go limp with desire after he admits he robs convenience stores for a living...
...make the law. We're here to interpret it." Yet the decisive moment for Chief Justice Earl Warren (Richard Kiley) is rendered in simplistic human terms: an inspirational trip to Gettysburg and the sight of his black chauffeur sleeping in the car because he can't get a motel room. What was all that legal mumbo jumbo anyway...
...water is freezing, mud is everywhere, nearly every motel is boarded up for the winter, the information kiosks are our of their handy "Guide to Vacationland" pamphlets and the tourists carrying plastic lobsters are nowhere to be found...
...Annette Bening) is cheaper, perkier, ever ready to try the "long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room kill, and do it all with a hard smirk. Roy hardly stands a chance with Lilly. He can rebuff her seductions, but he can't duck her wrath...