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Brevity is not the soul of Clint. Clocking in at nearly three hours, Eastwood's ponderous adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil creeps along like a slug under the hot Georgia sun. Drag is indeed the most striking feature of this unwieldy film, and I'm not talking about Lady Chablis, the preeminent transvestite of Savannah...
MEMPHIS: The questions about whether James Earl Ray's rifle killed Martin Luther King Jr., deepened with test results showing that most of the test bullets fired from the rifle had marks different from the slug that killed King. But because the bullets were fired nearly two decades after the assassination, it's difficult to conclusively say that Ray's rifle did not kill King. Hoping for confirmation, Ray's lawyers are in a Memphis court asking for additional tests. Lawyers told Judge Joe Brown that they were also seeking results from FBI test-firings conducted shortly after the killings...
Inside stores, Coke and Pepsi slug it out as much as anywhere, and you can't buy a soft drink unaffiliated with one of the two. Kellogg's cereals vie for space with Dannon yogurt products. In drug stores, Old Spice, Gillette and Secret occupy the deodorant shelf. Wrangler and Lee jeans, meanwhile, hang in the windows of clothing sellers...
Imagine you are taking a slug of whiskey. a puff of a cigarette. A toke of marijuana. A snort of cocaine. A shot of heroin. Put aside whether these drugs are legal or illegal. Concentrate, for now, on the chemistry. The moment you take that slug, that puff, that toke, that snort, that shot, trillions of potent molecules surge through your bloodstream and into your brain. Once there, they set off a cascade of chemical and electrical events, a kind of neurological chain reaction that ricochets around the skull and rearranges the interior reality of the mind...
...fierce demeanor disappears when she talks about the weekend in Paris she begins the next day with the two sisters, a brother and a niece she adores, thanks, she says, laughing, "to the $299 Air France special Bob Dole advertised right after the election." Whereas Morris was a slug for preaching family values to the campaign while violating them himself, McGann really believes in the notion. Over Christmas, she welcomed Morris' daughter to their Connecticut home for the holidays...