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Denise and Celia can match Jimmy and Jon take for take in fast-paced, curse-laden dialogue. Some of the best scenes take place with all four characters on screen; the chemistry between these actors is potent and the relationships they create are totally believable...
Director Mann says his first potent movie memory is of the 1936 screen adaptation of the book (with Randolph Scott). He has gone farther than the older picture did in straightening and strengthening the plot -- about a besieged fort, the ill-timed attempt of the commandant's daughter to join her father there and the anarchy that follows his surrender. Even Magua, the treacherous Indian villain of the piece, played with deadly relish by Wes Studi, is given a good motive for his dastardliness, the dignity of his otherness and even allowed a nanosecond of pity...
...sparing on the blitz: W & M quarterback Shawn Knight is a skilled scrambler and a deft passer. Harvard should concert its efforts on defending the Tribe's potentially potent aerial attack...
...RIGHT, THERE'S THIS LITTLE black box full of mysterious and potent electronics that all kinds of people, good, bad and ambiguous, want to possess. The prize is merely the key to the universe -- or anyway that portion of it that is computer-driven. The box can decipher any security code and permit anyone, hacker or master criminal, a free, personally enriching, socially destructive play in this great new field of dreams...
...Heilman Brewing Co. learned that the hard way when protests from the black community caused the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to revoke its approval of a potent malt liquor whose primary consumers were expected to be black males. Similar protests caused R.J. Reynolds to snuff out a new cigarette specifically designed to attract black smokers. Those companies are studies "on how not to market a product and how to ignore the community concerned," says Doug Alligood, vice president of special markets for BBDO New York. "Nobody bothered to find out that the black community is really concerned...