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...Fords sprouted an extra head with the formation of a new agency called Fame. Its president is Jerry Masucci, 41, a onetime New York City policeman who made a fortune with the Fania record company. The Fords own one-third of Fame and handle the financial operations. Fame's first famous enlistee was Esme. Echoing the Casablancas philosophy, Lawyer Richard Talmadge, another part owner of Fame (and the Fords' attorney), notes that a model is "more than a pretty face selling a product." Says he: "A model is negotiated for now like an actor in a film series...
...Baltimore pizza parlor, a patrolman shoots and cripples JaWan McGee, a black youth, after seeing him reach for a shiny object in his pocket. It turns out to be a cigarette lighter. In Flint, Mich., an unarmed teen-ager fleeing a burglary is shot in the back by a policeman with a shotgun. In Chicago, three plainclothesmen severely beat a former mental patient who refuses to stop smoking in a subway car and resists arrest. Five hours later, he is dead. In Philadelphia, a 94-year-old black man who refuses to let utility company representatives into his apartment...
Police authorities in many big cities are trying to lower the death toll by devising departmental rules limiting the use of deadly force and by punishing patrolmen who go too far. Typically, the regulations prohibit such force except under extraordinary circumstances: for example, when a policeman believes that his life or someone else's is in jeopardy, or when there is no other way to stop a violent felony in progress. Many of these new codes are backed up by elaborate review systems that investigate each discharge of a police gun and call for disciplinary action or referral...
...sharper. The acting is good. Lange is hard and dizzy, Saint James mousy and distracted, Curtin self-pitying yet capable. When called upon to improvise a striptease in order to cover her pals' getaway, she is both game and sexy. Her developing relationship with a shy policeman, expertly played by Dabney Coleman, adds a pleasant grace note to an edgy, insinuating comedy...
When he was a child and lost his parents at the beach, he asked a policeman, "Do you think we'll ever find them?" "I don't know," came the reply. "There's so many places they could hide...