Word: sagas
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...with most developments in the O.J. saga, the video was the occasion for another flurry of state-of-the-art media exploitation. Though the interview itself is being kept under wraps, TV viewers got a tantalizing foretaste of it in a video about the video, which Simpson friend and co-author Lawrence Schiller sold to the ever receptive Hard Copy. In it Simpson disputes the police version of events on the night of the murders--denying, for example, that he bumped into the air-conditioning unit outside his house, as prosecutor Marcia Clark theorized. "I've lived in this house...
Utah Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz held a five-hour press conference to explain the soap-opera saga that has sent her skyrocketing political career into the tailspin of a financial and marital scandal. A tearful Waldholtz claimed she was conned by her husband Joe, who she said improperly manipulated both their personal finances and her 1994 campaign funds. Waldholtz insisted she would not resign, though only 39% of surveyed Utah voters believed her version of events...
...real Nixon was a tragicomic figure; he doesn't need Stone's demonizing or mythologizing touch. His saga, moreover, is familiar from a quillion docudramas and Saturday Night Live skits. It is also imprinted in the TV memories of Americans over 35. The President's bizarre farewell speech, nicely re-created by Hopkins, captures that spooky poignancy. Then as he boards Air Force One, Hollywood gives way to archive videotape, and we see the real Nixon with his implausible grin and victory wave of the arms--apotheosis and self-parody in one indelibly weird moment. For once, the gonzo director...
...this adds good weight and tension to the movie and provides a lot of very good actors with the opportunity to do honest, probing work in a context where, typically, less will do. But Mann's aspirations don't stop there. Having revived the historical saga in The Last of the Mohicans, he obviously wants to do the same thing for what has become a much more familiar (and tiresome) genre, the urban action picture...
...Where's Joe Waldholtz?" saga ended Friday when the missing husband of Utah Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz turned himself in to federal authorities in Washington. Waldholtz, who mysteriously vanished from the city's National Airport, will be questioned about apparent personal and campaign financial irregularities. During his absence, Representative Waldholtz announced that she planned to divorce her husband (and close political aide), citing his "incredible level of deception...