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...nuclear button? Why, there'd be a right-wing update of the old red menace. So here, lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have the power to trigger the apocalypse or, just maybe, prevent...
...Justice Department blamed the Davidians for the suicidal fire and absolved the FBI of responsibility. Various groups of survivors and families of victims have initiated lawsuits against the Federal Government, seeking more than $1.5 billion in total damages. One group has hired former Attorney General and leftish advocate Ramsey Clark to handle its case. At the vigil he told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that his clients aren't interested in money but "want truth to prevail...
Jack Baran, director of "Destiny Turns on the Radio," has never directed a movie before. If he decides to direct another, he needs to choose a better script. This one, written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone, is a loser. The writers have concentrated far more on its strangeness than on developing its many good ideas...
...kinds of doctors. Priests are kinds of poets as well, and Dr. Hullah begins to think about writing his great "Anatomy of Fiction." What else could we expect? Esme Barron and Conor Gilmartin, as well as Hugh McWearie, reappear from Davies' last novel, Murther and Walking Spirits; old Dunstan Ramsey steps out of The Deptford Trilogy for rather a lengthy visit, joined as well by his friend Boy Stanton (referred to in passing and not named, though the description matches the sugar baron), and we visit Salterton, site of Davies' first trilogy...
Davies, like great writers before him, has begun to fashion his own living universe. It is a universe which makes us believe--and become intensely aware--that its characters live a life outside of the books. Dunstan Ramsey gives a lecture in The Cunning Man of which we hear not a breath in Fifth Business, narrated by Ramsey and about his life. This gives us the startling sensation that there is a universe behind the books, that Ramsey is a person who distilled his own life into a book, rather than a mere puppet animated only for literature. No living...