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...opening scene of "The Client" shows Mark (Brad Renfro) teaching his eight-year-old brother Ricky (David Speck) how to smoke behind a trailer-park outside Memphis. Only a few smokes later, Mark has a chance encounter with the suicidal lawyer, Jerome Clifford (Walter Olkewicz), that sweeps his family into a plot of Mafia intrigue, federal investigation, and a legal battle who outcome may determine the family's future. Sound like a compelling beginning...
Would you risk using it if its safety were only proven by "cruelty-free" conjecture? The CVS crusader might discount the happiness of lab bunnies when she gets a speck of Jim's-All-Natural-Cruelty-Free-Third-World-Friendl y-Gentle-Tooth-Cleaner in her eye and writhes in pain as the substance eats away at her cornea via some reaction unforeseen by the bunny-friendly safety testers who formulated...
...have isolated a disease- resistant gene in one type of tomato, cloned it and inserted it into a variety of tomato that lacks that gene. The cloned gene signals the plant's defense system to ward off an invasion by bacteria that cause a leaf- destroying disease known as speck. Researchers predict that similar advances with other crops will significantly reduce the need for pesticides by the end of the century...
Flying is such a fragile, precarious act; a plane is the tiniest speck hurling through a great expanse of sky, ever aware that it shouldn't be there. In the back of my mind, I always think that the dream could end. Like the coyote who walks, nonchalantly, off the cliff--and realizes, a few steps later, that he went too far. That's the moment, of course, when he starts to fall...
...three networks have said they will back off from their overzealous pursuit of true-crime movies of the week. ABC, which drew fire for its two-parter in May about 1950s mass murderer Charles Starkweather, has turned down a proposed TV movie about 1960s mass murderer Richard Speck. Critics may cheer at the demise of this tawdry TV-movie crime wave, but good films may get hurt in the process. ABC had planned to air the explosively violent (and Oscar-winning) film Goodfellas this season, complete with an introduction by director Martin Scorsese in which he asserts the film...