Word: murder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they take groups of three words or themes as their points of reference. Friday night the actors in the 16-member ensemble will spoof topics from TV talk show announcers to soap operas to docudramas, and Saturday night's Chez Cliche should feature, you guessed it, tried and true murder mystery themes...
Dodd is the True Believer in Joseph Ruben's latest film. The movie follows the adventures of lawyer Dodd (James Woods) and his associate Roger Baron (Robert Downey, Jr.) as the investigate the eight-year-old case of a gang-murder in Chinatown. Woods plays a jaded lawyer who was once a great civil-rights attorney, and Downey portrays an idealistic young law-school graduate who has come to New York to work for his idol, Dodd. True, Dodd has done nothing for the past ten years but defend drug dealers, but somehow Baron is unaware of this fact...
BUNDY was one of the most gruesome serial killers in memory. In 1980 he was convicted of the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. Leach had been abducted, mutilated, slain and abandoned in a pig sty. In 1979, Bundy was found guilty of the murders of two Florida State students, whom he bludgeoned and strangled in their sorority house. All told, Bundy was suspected of over 30 murders in Florida and the Pacific Northwest...
...dated badly or was overrated to start. It is a political, moral and especially a rhetorical muddle; its most grandiloquent speeches sound like discarded first drafts for a lesser Frank Capra movie. At the end, a Senator gets away with taking a bribe and Brock apparently gets away with murder, all with the connivance of the supposed hero and heroine. That may echo how some spectators feel about the outcome of recent insider-trading cases, but Kanin seemingly intended a shout of triumph, not this cynical sigh. By W.A.H...
...Bhutto to power. An Amherst College graduate who joined TIME as a reporter-researcher five years ago, he often can't avoid the dark side of his beat. In chronicling another election in Sri Lanka, Desmond spent days trying to make contact with violent Sinhalese rebels, whose campaign of murder frightened many voters away from the polls. Now back in New Delhi, Desmond will continue to keep TIME's eye on the disordered corners of his region, but hopes to spend more time close to his base. That will bring no shortage of hot news though. India is scheduled...