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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hatch and Jennifer Gibbs (Honey) make reasonable attempts in their roles, but they encounter a few problems. Hatch reaches a highpoint in the scene where George tells the Miss Muff story. The intensity that he displays when he smashes a bottle is powerful. But Hatch's diction is often unnatural because he overenunciates every word. Gibbs performs well when she experiences an emotional breakdown caused by her fear of becoming pregnant. Otherwise Gibbs often seems unconcious...
Still, it is often impossible to retrieve a patient's blood, particularly in trauma cases in which the victim of a shooting or highway accident has lost an enormous amount at the scene. Since blood is not always readily available in these circumstances, researchers are seeking a synthetic hemoglobin for emergency...
Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Angel Heart) will never be a better director. He has always had a taste and talent for sudden violence, for making it explode out of ordinary contexts. That talent is well employed in Mississippi Burning: a scene in which a black congregation emerges from an evening prayer meeting to confront a silent group of hooded Klansmen, clubs at the ready, is a little masterpiece of terror...
Airplane! alumnus Leslie Nielsen plays Lieutenant Drebin, who sets out in the tried and true cop show quest: avenging the attempted murder of his partner. The first half hour of the film is inspired, from the hilarious credit sequence to Nielsen's first scene, in which he foils an anti-American plot by some of America's most notorious enemies such as Muammar Khaddafi and Idi Amin. The attempted killing of Nielsen's partner (O.J. Simpson) is a slapstick tour-de-force...
That court found that the Allegheny County decorations, on a public building were different from the Pawtucket nativity scene, on a publicly owned field. It ruled that the position of the decorations, especially the menorah, implied public "establishment" of specific religions...