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...goodwill also prompted Time-Life Video to produce a taped account of the week's highlights, with the profits going to the Inaugural Committee, while corporate cousin HBO is paying for the right to air a Sunday-night special featuring performances by such stars as Aretha Franklin and Jack Nicholson. Scores of companies have been asked to underwrite everything from private parties for the ascendant clans with "democrat" in their names (the Democratic Leadership Council, the Democratic Mainstream Committee) to the "hospitality suites" in Washington hotels where guests will never be beyond the reach of a nightcap...
Tickets to the swearing-in admitted the well-connected like actors Jack Nicholson and Darryl Hannah and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson to assigned seating within feet of Clinton...
CRITICS GROUSE ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LOVE OF THE tried and true, but ultimately that's just what the audience wants. Proof: this holiday season's movie- attendance figures. The big disappointments were all thematically adventurous: Leap of Faith (Steve Martin as an evangelist), Hoffa (Jack Nicholson as a labor leader), Malcolm X (Denzel Washington as a civil rights activist) and Toys (Robin Williams as . . . whatever...
...corrupt, crusading boss of the Teamsters, James R. Hoffa. The R stood for Riddle, and David Mamet's lean script is content to leave him at that. Hoffa does stuff -- bullies management, connives with the Mob -- but who is he? The movie gives not a clue. Jack Nicholson looks eerily like his subject, and he has the abrupt gestures and staccato voice of a man who overcomes lack of eloquence by force of will. But director Danny DeVito, who also plays Hoffa's closest ally, gets way too fond of slo-mo shots and swooping cameras; instead of a hard...
...with the attitude problem they've got. America's largest and most corrupt labor union remains in love with its sordid past, which is making it nearly impossible for it to forge an honest future. The attitude is reflected vividly in Hoffa, the new $40 million movie starring Jack Nicholson. The film tends to romanticize the life of the union's most infamous leader, Jimmy Hoffa, portraying him as a folk hero, a "friend of labor" who may have done deals with the Mob but only to help his Teamsters brothers and never to line his own pockets. Why does...