Word: stings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what words! In this era of postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy. Suzanne is ever crouching, like a stubborn, frightened child, behind the wall of her ironizing humor. As a coke-carrying member of the sensation generation, for whom "instant gratification takes too long," she is impatient with her wit; too easily she can turn a kind thought against itself. Just as easily, she has turned her life into a sad joke, blowing lines on the set and nearly dying from an overdose...
...present it, but jabbed me in the eye anyway," said Dattner, who added that he has heard none of the New Kids' music and favors musicians such as the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Sting...
...death does not appreciably cut Swayze's time on screen. It does however, cut down on his wardrobe. Swayze wears the same outfit when he meets the only person who can hear him, psychic Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg); when he has has Oda Mae contact Molly, and sting the man who hire his killer; when, finally, predictably, he saves Molly's life...
...charged with eleven misdemeanor counts of possessing or conspiring to possess cocaine and three felony counts of lying to a federal grand jury in 1989 about drug use. If convicted on all charges, he could be jailed for 26 years. His lawyer, R. Kenneth Mundy, calls the federal sting operation that caught Barry smoking crack with Rasheeda Moore "entrapment pure and simple." It was, says Mundy, a plot devised by a Republican Federal Government frustrated by the failure of a seven-year effort to chase a flamboyant -- and virtually unbeatable -- Democrat from office. The prosecution contends that Barry...
...bought this luckless plug horse to sting fixers at a New York track. Trouble was, he got a second wind and placed in half his races, scuttling the scam and forcing the feds to sell...