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When hollywood moguls dine at Mortons, their favorite entree is fish out of water. They love movies that reveal the familiar through brand-new eyes. If detective Harrison Ford could cozy up to the Amish in Witness, why couldn't detective Melanie Griffith go undercover among Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews and become one of the mishpocha? The reason why not is A STRANGER AMONG US. This pill of a thriller, written by Robert Avrech, manages to demean everyone involved, regardless of creed or previous credits. The usually workmanlike Sidney Lumet directs Griffith to be shrill and most of the Hasidim...
Perot's appearances have the suspense of a good TV movie: Will the mysterious billionaire lose his composure and reveal a dark side? Perot made no obvious gaffes during the ABC forum, in which he fielded questions from studio-audience members in 10 cities. His testiness was apparent early on, when he opened the show by rebutting several points in the Jennings program. But he was surprisingly collected, though not particularly convincing, when a gay activist shouted out a denunciation of his stand on naming homosexuals to his Cabinet. (He is concerned, he said, that such a person would...
...thwarted her lust, is sickening yet hypnotic -- and is based on biblical-era chronicles. The pervasive homosexual passion is faithful not only to Wilde but to the culture he portrays. Pacino presides with calculated distraction and studied effeminacy that drop away, as he betrays the wayward Salome, to reveal the steely cruelty of a conqueror...
Finally, the statistics reveal that Japan is less involved in the American economy than the Japan-bashers charge. The rate of growth in investment in U.S. companies was higher for Japan than for other nations from 1979 to 1988. But in 1987, Japan's share of American industry was less than half of Britain's and only slightly larger than the Netherlands...
...result is a three-dimensional sound image with much of the presence, depth and dynamics of a live band. Trumpets bite, cymbals sizzle, bass strings snap and ring. Like an art restorer who scrapes off centuries' worth of grime to reveal the vibrant colors of the original, Parker makes it possible to hear the music as it must have sounded in New Orleans dance halls and Harlem ballrooms 60 years...