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...just say we performed a rare stunt onthe ten-meter [diving] plat form," Miller says...
...soldiers survey their stock -- a pile of emaciated bodies, hundreds of men, dead or near dead -- and begin their work. With brute efficiency they toss the bodies into a deep, burning pit. Down the hill the bodies roll, toward incineration. They don't slide with the burly grace of stunt men; they topple clumsily, bumping into one another, robbed of dignity even in their dying. For agonizing minutes the carnage continues, until the soldiers' job is done and the pit smolders with an almost visible stench...
...tell the truth, no ambitious movie is quite so simple as magazine trend pieces may try to make it seem. Certainly not Heaven & Earth, which is thematically grotesque but visually gorgeous: the camera takes in the spectacle of Southeast Asia (Thailand mostly, stunt-doubling for Vietnam) with the rapture of an intelligent lover. Because it traces Phung Le Ly's life story, the film is dramatically misshapen: its most singing moments are in the first half. And audiences may be as weary of Stone's haranguing about Vietnam as they are afraid of people with AIDS. But if Stone simplifies...
...Diana's latest move an act of despair or a new stunt...
That gesture may make little difference in Venango County, where two more youths attempted the roadway stunt on Wednesday -- one a fourth-grader, the other a first-grader. And it will complicate things for Patricia Shingledecker. She vows to go and see the movie, including the highway scene. "I want to see what prompted them," she says. "Everyone says Michael and I were a lot alike. If I see it, I think I could understand better." If the movie does enlighten her, then she will have achieved an answer that so far seems to elude the nation...