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...films, Godard's cinematography is clean and sharply punctuated, fixing on such pop culture images as pinball machines and posters. High and low art are thrown back and forth, and shown to be virtually interchangeable. The Seine is a Corot, and Romeo and Juliet is a tabloid. The three protagonists run madly through the Louvre to try to outdo some sort of world record...
Amidst this maelstrom in New York arrives "L.A. Confidential," a sumptuous bit of film noir set in 1950's Los Angeles. The movie features a cast of crime lords, dope dealers, tabloid photographers, wife-beaters, crooked cops, movie stars, and prostitutes. Navigating this menagerie of colorful filth are three police detectives, Bud White, Jack Vincennes, and Ed Exley. As we watch them attempt to solve a mysterious mass murder, we unexpectedly gain insight into the recent tragedy in Brooklyn...
KITTY KELLEY News hooks usually help sales, but the time may be too tender for a gossipy, tabloid-style scorching...
...civil action would force the mysterious plaintiff to reveal her identity, and make her a candidate for tabloid fame ? which, as Marv knows, can be more of a curse than a blessing...
...Howard can't be gay. He's the track coach! And he's about to marry the sweet, desperately needy Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack). Though he plaintively denies he's gay, and though his parents (Debbie Reynolds and Wilford Brimley) support him, some people are intrusive or vengeful: a tabloid-TV reporter (Tom Selleck), the school principal (Bob Newhart) and a few students who think homosexuality is just too weird, man. As one solemnly declares, the human body has "in" holes and "out" holes, and "gay guys put 'in' stuff in the 'out' holes...