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Chicago politics may look just as slippery. Virginia politics is certainly more fractious. But for sheer, lip-smacking fun, there's still nothing that can beat Louisiana's. For nearly a quarter-century, Edwin W. Edwards has been much of the reason why. In four terms as Governor, Edwards, who was tried twice for fraud and racketeering but never convicted, who ran up huge gambling debts while Governor and who squired so many young women while still in his first marriage that he was dubbed "the Silver Zipper," has made Baton Rouge the undisputed capital of rascally political folklore...
...Take Speed. You've probably heard that this is the one where a terrorist wires a bus with a bomb that becomes armed when the vehicle reaches 50 m.p.h.; if the bus subsequently slows down below that speed, the bomb will detonate. Talk about simple. But the film's sheer cut-to-the-chase straightfowardness is part of its appeal...
Send a couple of rodeo riders to New York City and you have what everyone must have hoped was the perfect reverse spin on City Slickers. In The Cowboy Way, the two rubes have many stupid misadventures as they try to save a young woman from white slavery. The sheer laziness of the writing, direction and especially the playing by Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland is stunning. The stars seem to be improvising much of the time and winking to the audience, "Hey, folks, we're having a lot of fun!" Hey, guys...
None of these films could come near the breadth and gusto, the sheer comic wallop, of Pulp Fiction. This 2 1/2-hour tapestry weaves four tales into a meditation about tough guys with too much or too little time on their hands. What do you talk about before a killing? (Fast food in Amsterdam.) How do you escape a fate worse than death? (With luck and honor.) How do you date your gang boss's wife? (Very carefully.) How do you remove those telltale blood stains from the backseat? (Very quickly.) Spinning delirious variations on familiar film noir conventions and pulling...
...years of expecting Presidents to be adept television performers and 30-odd years of Presidents' playing to that expectation -- the catch in Reagan's voice, the tug on Clinton's lip -- have chipped away at our notions of intimacy, dignity and content, leaving behind a fat appetite for sheer spectacle. Not always by design, the Clinton Administration is far and away the most entertaining in recent memory (excepting, of course, its wonky bits). Nannygate, the $200 haircut, Gore- Perot, Whitewater, Troopergate, Hillary's commodities trades ... we've had a government in chronic sweeps mode for more than a year...