Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crime has long been a topic for movies, and in the late '70s D.A.'s even played a central role, but a very different one. Their job in movies such as Serpico and Prince of the City was to expose police corruption, all the while indicating just how inevitable that corruption was. The movies were not hard on cops so much as they were hard on the system. D.A.'s were portrayed as ambition-driven climbers, eager to use informants as stepping stones to more impressive jobs...
...Untouchables,that healthy cynicism about the role of law enforcement officers has given way to pure myth. One crusading knight, in the character of Ness, is out to stop the terrorism of one arch villain. The Chicago gangster Al Capone. It doesn't matter that the legal touches of the dramatic ending--involving a switch of juries--are patently illegal...
...still upstages the mod-art gashes of color and moves like the cuddliest disco dervish. The new video for I Wanna Dance with Somebody (directed, like How Will I Know, by Brian Grant) underlines Houston's chameleon charm. In one scene she reprises her Saving All My Love role; in another, she does a Tina Turner shimmy; throughout, she bops till any other mortal would drop...
...goals. He spoke often of duty and what was right, yet he carelessly used money from the profits of the arms sales to pay food bills and buy snow tires. "He was always starring in his own movie," said former Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes. North was certain about his role in that melodrama: the hero who turned rhetoric into action...
...single putative love interest: Philip Dunne, 28, a London bachelor who works at the investment banking firm of S.G. Warburg. Never mind that Dunne already has a pretty girlfriend named Katya Grenfell. Young, successful and with a vague resemblance to Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman), Dunne fit the role perfectly. POW! SUPERMAN PHIL IS DIANA'S NEW PAL blared the News of the World...