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...slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance, Morgan Freeman replaced Alan Arkin as a righteous judge, who in the book was a Jew. The novel they said couldn't be filmed . . . couldn't. Not by these folks...
...Whatever happened to righteous indignation?" Bradlee asked...
Haidar Abdul-Shafi, head of the Palestinian delegation, easily trumped Shamir. Though the substance of his talk was in many ways just as unyielding, its tone was mild, not complaining or self-righteous. He too was playing a public relations game, appealing to the Israeli peace movement and worldwide sympathizers...
...street situation right in your face with the force of rap, which is one reason why most of those films use rap on their sound tracks to muscle up the drama. Public Enemy itself was heard, memorably, in Do the Right Thing, but nothing in that deft and righteous movie can match the immediacy of a cut like Nighttrain on their new album, Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black. Out only a month, Apocalypse has burned into the Top Ten and sold a million copies; it hit No. 4 on the Billboard chart, with Can't Truss It sitting high...
...love the idea of a left conservative because it gets rid of political cant. We're stifling in it. One of the diseases of the right is self- righteousness. I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation...