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This is Molly Hennessy-Fiske's last column. She would like to congratulate new student life columnists Paul K. Nitze '00 and Pam S. Wasserstien '00, and thank all former interviewees as well as FMF, RH and KHF for a well developed conscience...
...cliff above the Snake River in Wyoming during a rafting trip. Brother Robert, while at Harvard, leaped 10 feet between two six-story dorms on a dare. He was arrested in 1983 for heroin possession. Joe II drove his jeep off the road in 1973, paralyzing family friend Pam Kelley. Brother David died in 1984 of a drug overdose. It is all more than any family can bear, especially without the abiding solace of martyrdom to some cause greater than a thrill and a game...
...much for the legal wranglings. What does the tape offer? For the most part, relatively mild stuff: Pam and Tommy fishing, camping, gardening and cooing newlywed niceties to each other. O.K., there's also plenty of camera time for the pair's respective endowments and several minutes of hard-core sex in inspired locations like California's Highway 15. The IEG tape enhances these moments with slow-motion replays and a pornish sound track. At least a few viewers, including Seth Warshasky, the head of IEG, think the Lees staged the whole thing. "It's a publicity stunt," he says...
...could irrepressible actor QUENTIN TARANTINO, after casting himself in all his directorial outings, not put himself in Jackie Brown? A careful listening will discover him giving a shrill, stilted delivery of lines like "end of messages" as the voice of PAM GRIER'S answering machine. Not quite as sly as Hitchcock, but a lot more pleasant than watching him play a real character...
Receiving accolades left and right, such that her comeback has become a gimmick in itself, Pam Grier's performance fails to hold up to close scrutiny--literally. She delivers lines in earnest or with meaningful pauses when her character's been found out, but the look and feel smacks of trying too hard. Looking concerned is not enough to convey emotion, nor does wielding a gun against evil men and "fighting back" correlate to credible passion, anger...