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...rather dull, villain, leering savagely but saying little of interest. Daniel Baldwin has a solid rapport with Woods and brings a rugged toughness to Montoya, but he can't shake his comical "Baldwin brother" reputation (he's the portly one) and brings utterly no credence to his silly romantic subplot with Sheryl Lee's Katrina...
...next year, the New York Yankees again saved the game from imminent demise, pulling together a scrappy and inspirational team of rookies, recovering drug addicts and itinerant veterans to claim the World Series crown, with the illness of Yankee manager Joe Torre's brother Frank providing a dramatic subplot. I have no doubt that the next underdog to win a World Series, the next player to break some hallowed mark, will be duly hailed as the game's newest savior...
Lethal Weapon 4 is only the starkest example of a trend that has seen virtually every action movie released this summer freighted with a subplot about the importance of family. This has had the unprecedented effect of elevating teary-eyed hugs to the same level of cinematic importance as blowing up the Chrysler Building. The emotional climax of Deep Impact, for instance, occurs when Tea Leoni's reporter character embraces her estranged dad as they stand on a windswept Atlantic beach. (Father and daughter then find real closure when they, the Chrysler Building and the rest of the Eastern seaboard...
...number of unforgettable performances. On the Town had good sport casting the kid who used to jump the Hoboken ferry to sneak into Manhattan. From Here to Eternity, which won him an Oscar, put his stalled career back into overdrive and led, through rumor and myth, to a memorable subplot in The Godfather...
...another Tripp-related, Goldberg-haunted subplot involves the small but mighty Regnery Publishing. Based in Washington, the house produces roughly 30 books a year, a disproportionate number of which slime the President in prose. Unlimited Access, the firm's huge best seller, comes out in paperback this month (lucky timing or evil genius?), fortified with four top-secret new chapters by former G-man Aldrich. Denunciations of the original edition reportedly spurred a sympathetic Tripp to contemplate her own book on the Clinton White House. Had she written it, she would have joined a Regnery stable that includes R. Emmett...