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...cretin or even an ordinary villain, and his career has followed the dutiful, almost square path one would expect from the characters he projects. When he saw that he was not receiving the kinds of parts he wanted back in the '60s, he did what the forthright, somewhat self-righteous John Book would have done. Rather than fritter away his talent as a bit actor on TV car-chase shows, he all but dropped out for seven years, turning down 90% of the jobs he was offered. With books borrowed from the public library, he learned...
...turn. The others are real-life figures: a former Atlanta police administrator named Chet Dettlinger (Martin Sheen), who investigated the murders on his own and doubts that Williams is the killer; and Camille Bell (Gloria Foster), an outspoken mother of one of the slain children. Both are pictured as righteous crusaders for justice; both were paid consultants on the movie. Williams, played with riveting accuracy by Calvin Levels, is a more ambivalent figure. But the movie's sympathies are hard to miss: when Williams first emerges from his automobile for questioning, he stands in front of a church, his head...
...bombings, the violent protests outside facilities which perform abortions and the harassment of patients all point to the absence of civilized debate on abortion. The rhetoric of life activists has proceeded, threateningly, from appeals to protect the life of the fetus to sell righteous accusations which brand all those who do not accept their appeal "murderers." In a television interview last March, New York Bishop John J. O'Connor said, "I always compare the killing of 4000 babies a day in the United States, unborn babies, to the Holocaust." Responding to this charge at a news conference held this summer...
Certainly Goetz's quirky, guileless behavior fits the requirements of the myth better than Actor Charles Bronson's righteous and mean-spirited avenger in the film Death Wish. (Said Bronson last week: "I was raised to believe that if you have snakes in your backyard, you have to stomp on them.") Goetz talked to New York City police for three hours without a lawyer, providing most of the evidence that may be used against him. So far he has avoided any sense of triumph or self-justification, and his few public statements contain little that anyone can disagree with...
...cement-jawed superhero does battle against an evil imperial foe and uses wit, grit and brute force to win the day and make people feel good about their country. This fantasy of an all-righteous America fills movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half...