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...once-doomed and now newly wedded Fairfax, Derfner gives a strong performance. Unlike most of the other actors, Derfner adds a distinctive edge to his character. Admirably, he wants to break through the stock character-ness of Fairfax, and for the most part succeeds in this endeavor...
Cooper managed to find both good actors and gifted comedians. Burlinson is ideal; he captures Bobby's charming ineptitude as well as his randy single-guy ness. Also notable is Jessica Fortunato, who plays the curmudgeonly Joanne. While it would be easy to play her superficially, Fortunato gives Joanne both humor and depth. She also shows off a powerful singing voice in her solo, "Ladies Who Lunch...
...WALKED A DIFFICULT beat, one that lies at the heart of American ambivalence. Largely through historic accident, the agency acquired responsibility for regulating three of the nation's most popular yet dangerous products: booze, cigarettes and guns. Its forebears include the "revenuers" who hunted moonshiners and enforced Prohibition. Eliot Ness remains the bureau's chief institutional hero. Today large framed posters from the 1987 movie The Untouchables hang in many ATF offices...
...against his client "absolutely false" and says ATF disciplined Vince without formally charging him with anything. (Adamcik could not be reached for comment.) An internal investigation sustained some of Klipfel's allegations. It reported that Boyle had arranged free use of a nightclub for the division's 1992 Eliot Ness Birthday Party. Adamcik had also invited Boyle to play in the division's Eliot Ness Golf Tournament, held in Indiana on a workday. Boyle couldn't attend, however. Awaiting sentencing, he wasn't allowed to leave Illinois...
Still, the politically correct cliches at the heart of the piece are a crippling obstacle. They aren't even consistent. For if Mike, the much maligned cop (Michael Ness), is a repressed homosexual who finally realizes his true nature in the quake's aftermath, shouldn't that make him a Good Guy? Is David (Jesse Means II), the priapic minister, really a symbol of black male virility or a sexual predator? Is Dewain (Harold Perrineau Jr.), the gang leader who is arrested for stealing two bottles of beer, an avatar of resistance or merely a common thief...