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MOVIES . . . THE DEVIL'S OWN: Brad Pitt?s Frankie McGuire is an assassin for an unnamed group of Northern Irish terrorists sent to America to evade the British secret service, whose noose is beginning to tighten around him. Given an assumed name and occupation, he enters the country, and the home of Harrison Ford?s Tom O?Meara, as an ordinary immigrant needing a sponsor. Since Tom is a New York City cop of unquestionable honesty, Frankie?s cover is perfect. The script (by David Aaron Cohen, Vincent Patrick and Kevin Jarre) is good about not making too much...
...Live; and the most impressive array of news stars in television. But one of them, Diane Sawyer, could use a window in her contract to jump to CBS, while several others--Jennings, Barbara Walters, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel--are getting a little long in the tooth. "It's no secret that there's been a certain malaise at ABC News," says Brit Hume, former chief White House correspondent, who left ABC for Fox News in December. "There's an unmistakable sense of gradual decline...
PRINCESS DIANA Spared a court ordeal, she settles with fired housemaid for secret cash amount...
BOSTON--What's the secret to bringing communities together? Ouija knows...
...speaks to one of two possible trends. The first is a national tendency toward the (melo) dramatic that has overtaken our public culture. Why believe that two men in a rented truck are going about their business if you can instead imagine that they are dangerous terrorists on a secret mission to destroy American society and that you are the savvy by-stander who saw the truth and averted national disaster...