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Attention, Washington pundits: Those of you who bet that Whitewater would sink three top Treasury officials before you had to write your annual thumb-suckers about Why Presidents Need Summer Vacations lost last week. Treasury chief of staff Joshua Steiner -- ridiculed for questioning the accuracy of his own diary during the Senate hearings on Whitewater three weeks ago -- seemed safe for now. "He's being handled in juvenile court," sneered a congressional G.O.P. staffer discussing the youthful Steiner. "I find it disturbing that he's not being tried as an adult...
...morning fog begins to lift, a deputy sheriff unbolts the face-high shutter in the solid steel door of the cell and calls to prisoner 4013970. O.J. Simpson arises and is led across the hall for his daily shower. Returning to his cell, he shaves at the stainless-steel sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen vat so wide it uses a bed sheet for a filter...
...however, as Simpson awaits his arraignment, he faces long, tedious days in his cell, a beige, windowless room measuring 9 ft. by 7 ft. and furnished only with an iron bunk and a stainless-steel toilet next to a sink. A cardboard box on the floor, containing papers and letters, and the odd apple or orange complete the decor. As a protective-custody inmate, Simpson is denied access to mess halls, rooftop exercise areas or even the chapel. His only breaks are two hour-long periods of activity in the "freeway" of the corridor. There he can use the public...
There ought to be a double resonance in this tale, for the story is about two kinds of mystery, two kinds of lies: domestic and cinematic. Married people may become so involved in their careers that they sink into a genial ignorance of each other's emotional lives. Moviegoers may become so seduced by the image on the screen that they forget their sainted star is likely to be an ordinary troubled oaf like themselves...
...measure of the attention to details of this movie--the acting, the dialogue, the scenery, etc.--that the plotline doesn't sink with the audience. A scheme to take over the world using an explosive device is hardly fresh or entertaining, but it doesn't really hinder "The Shadow" that much...