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...Coens are superb writers and great technicians, and a great deal of the fun in the film stems from their smooth competence. They'll strap a Steadicam to anything that moves, and the results are sometimes extraordinary. Even if some of their visual jokes are stolen--like the Mad Biker blowing up bunnies with a hand grenade--they remain surprising and funny. The sequence in which H.I. is chased through a suburb by the police, a heaving armed albino convenience store clerk, and a pack of dogs deserves a special Oscar for Gratuitous Tension in a Feature Film...
...adolescent males, it is the coolest snow sport of the season. From Vermont to California, snowboarders are shredding the slopes on a cross between a surfboard and a ski, a 5-ft.-long, 10-in.-wide piece of laminated wood or fiber glass with fixed bindings that can easily strap around any sturdy boot. No poles needed. The newborn sport, like its cousins surfing and skateboarding, requires agility and a keen sense of balance to guide the boards down the slopes at speeds approaching 30 m.p.h...
...project seemed right. So they resurrected Pearl, a script about Janis Joplin, and had it rewritten, Midler says, "as a homage to all those men and women who bit the dust from sheer compulsion." That was The Rose. "I had a ball! I couldn't wait each day to strap on that angst bag and chew up that scenery. I thought it was my best work." Seen today, The Rose looks ragged, with dramatic longueurs randomly interspersed with explosions, but that is part of its surly authenticity. And Midler, deglamourized as Joplin and vulnerable as her own private self, creates...
...since he was ten, Cole has served time for robbery and cocaine dealing. Now he is back in jail after being sentenced last May to serve six years for assault with a deadly weapon. "Death is a part of living," says he. "The only thing I can do is strap two .44s on my chest, keep an Uzi under the seat and a .45 in my hand. If they're going to get me, I'll take some of them with...
...telltale digit on Schmuckler's screen starts changing like a countdown at Cape Canaveral. The trader and his two assistants erupt in a frenzy of shouted telephone conversations as they advise colleagues in New York City and Chicago to get ready for a blast of trading orders. "Strap on your seat belts, folks," says Schmuckler. "It looks like it's going to be another wild and woolly one! Get ready for Program C! Program...