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...Tone spends the rest of the movie clenching, kneading, staring at his hands; he?s a nutso-virtuoso, an Ormandy or Orlac, conducting a symphony ... of Mur-der! It may be tough to keep from laughing at Tone?s aristo-path, and harder to wave away the plot idiocies. (How did Jack commit the murder and then track Scott into the bar and shadow his every move, so that he would be able to contact and bribe the witnesses?) Clear these hurdles and you?ll enjoy the climax, as Jack invites Carol back to his place, loosens...
...Woolrich biographer Francis M. Nevins, Jr., says this is the best film adaptation of a Woolrich novel. But ?Black Angel? the movie uses only the situation, not the soul, of the original. It de-kinks the novel?s plot - just who is the black angel here anyway? - and the result is a B-minus remake of ?Phantom Lady...
...dead pallor as Triton (who calls himself ?a zombie in reverse?); Russell?s fragile beauty (she would drink herself to death at 36); the movie?s last words, that ?there are things on earth still hidden from us. Secret things, dark and mysterious.? Like the resolution of a Woolrich plot...
...with the Pentagon, which has jurisdiction in the cases and has taken an even harder line in its treatment of those captured in the war on terrorism. Justice has long argued that Hamdi--along with Jose Padilla, who has been imprisoned but not charged in a suspected "dirty bomb" plot--should be given an attorney and other legal rights. The Pentagon relented just before a filing deadline in a Supreme Court challenge to Hamdi's detention. Justice has also pushed to have the detainees in Guantanamo charged and given lawyers more quickly. Another source of friction, a former Justice official...
...with a single-vineyard champagne. Ninety percent of all French bubbly is a blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir that the top brands carefully mix to ensure consistency from year to year. Single-vineyard champagnes, however, are made from just one type of grape from a single plot of land?and they're fast becoming the toast of champagne lovers everywhere. Krug Clos Du Mesnil, for instance, comes from the first pressing of Chardonnay grapes picked from a single, walled-in vineyard in a former Benedictine monastery. The 1990 vintage gives a crisp, aromatic mouthful with a long...