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...stake were the lives of nine employees at the Talladega federal prison, in Alabama, who were being held captive by a mob of prisoners armed with spears, knives and crossbows. Suddenly FBI Director William Sessions walked in and began marching around the room, "making noise, strutting around, being somewhat pompous, and engaging in non sequiturs," as one official recalls. Instead of dealing with the crisis at hand, the officials were forced to humor Sessions, who was oblivious to their nine days of planning. "He blew in at the 59th minute of the 11th hour," gripes another participant...
...dare to do, others by what they dare not. Debbie (Diane Lane), the harried housewife in My New Gun, seems reluctant to keep her revolver, let alone fire it. But her weirdly devoted, devoutly weird neighbor Skippy (James LeGros) is happy to take it off her hands. Debbie's pompous husband (Stephen Collins) to Skippy: "What are you doing with my wife's gun in your pants?" My New Gun's dramatic tension arises both * from the eccentricity of the performers -- except for the sweetly befuddled Lane, the only human on this planet -- and from the audience's familiarity with...
...team of Diane English and Joel Shukovsky (who have parlayed the show's success into a four-series development deal with cbs), Murphy Brown is cleverly written, but in a smug, soulless, metallic way. The characters are all Johnny one-notes, the satire of TV news obvious and unoriginal. Pompous anchorman, shallow news bimbo, ratings-obsessed station executives -- once it all might have been daring, but such TV navel gazing is now painfully commonplace...
...seemed kind of pompous...and stuffy," she said...
From their ridiculously pompous and puerile lyrics to the overly familiar guitar riffs and flourishes, the Electric Love Hogs seem intent on reminding the listener just how unnecessary they are in the metal world. Rita Berardino...