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Producers of the film, which opened two weeks ago, used Radcliffe crew coach Elizabeth H. O'Leary as a stunt double for Streep...
...happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...
...aliens accused of committing crimes will face deportation even before trial under a pilot program in Florida. Gov. Lawton Chiles, who announced the start of the program in the midst of a tough re-election battle, was immediately denounced by Republican challenger Jeb Bush for pulling a vote-grabbing stunt. Florida already deports some imprisoned illegals. In the new program, to be tested for three months in Monroe, Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, aliens will be deported when they're charged. The program has been slammed by the American Civil Liberties Union...
...passage through the Gauntlet is a skillful blend of stunt and special- effects work, nicely orchestrated by the director, Curtis Hanson. He is less skillful at building suspense around the campsites, possibly because the screenplay is not very tightly or eccentrically wound, possibly because Bacon takes his best line too literally. "I am a nice guy," he says at one point. "I'm just a different kind of nice guy." As a result, Bacon doesn't hone Wade's menace as sharply as he might. He needs to become more erratic, more dangerous, as they paddle farther and farther from...
...about White House security and why air-traffic controllers at National Airport did not notice the tiny plane on their radar screens. Noting that the pilot had a history of depression and substance abuse, investigators suggested the bizarre episode was a successful suicide attempt rather than a bungled publicity stunt...