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Bonham Carter is so exquisite a period piece that it is jarring to imagine her as a jukebox Juliet in some 1980s T shirt ripper. The reverse is just as emphatically true for most of the young American actresses. Try seeing Laura Dern's superior performance as a hormone-fogged California adolescent in Smooth Talk, for instance, and then envision her in a Victorian corset and long skirt. Fuses blow; imagination does not stretch that far. Dern, for starters, has too much Pacific Ocean salt in her blond hair, and her lanky good looks are too much a matter...
...does become infinitely more interesting when Arnold enters the scene. Before Arnold, Connie encounters all kinds of sleazes, but he's both her first, and her first psychotic. And as you watch Arnold smooth-talk the diffident Connie into submission, he seems like a sinister cross between Jack the Ripper and Huey Long...
...signed the letters only "RUS, Somewhere, USA," had changed his mind about becoming an informant. Asked why the FBI had not followed up on the first two letters, U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello in San Francisco explained: "Not knowing who you're dealing with, whether it's Jack the Ripper or the greatest master spy since Mata Hari, an offer on the blind to do business is not the way we do business...
...legitimate public interest in her family but by an excess of innuendo, including attempts to link Zaccaro with transgressions by tenants in buildings managed by his firm. Said she: "I think the public is entitled to know whether or not I'm married to Jack the Ripper. I think they're entitled to know whether or not we pay our fair share of taxes. But what I think is wrong is what's going on now. I mean, every day there is another story about another building." It pains her that such stories lack direct connection...
...Ripper Alexandria...