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...night of Jan. 30, as the jury deliberated, Petrocelli was taut, his jaw rigid. It wasn't the wait or the fact that the jury had asked to examine key defense points. "Listen, I hate waiting," he said. "This is absolute torture. But they're looking at the evidence, and they're doing their job the way the criminal jury should have." What did disturb the plaintiffs was that two jurors from the criminal trial had sent letters to two jurors in the civil trial suggesting a meeting to help discuss their future financial options and recommending a particular agent...
...cast is nearly perfect. Bebe Neuwirth is a taut and tangy showstopper as Roxie's jailhouse rival; Joel Grey makes mousiness memorable as Roxie's husband; and James Naughton is commanding and funny as her lawyer. Only Reinking, starring as Roxie (a role she first played in 1977), falls short: her lithe body hasn't let her down, but her husky, quavering voice does. Yet it's barely a smudge on a show that doesn't just give us the old razzle-dazzle; it glows...
...seeing that Bill Clinton was the most intensely physical flesh presser since Lyndon Johnson (and he's in better shape than L.B.J. was). Clinton plunged in ecstatically--a nightmare for the Secret Service, whose taut, grim faces and darkly frisking eyes contrasted almost hilariously with the happy, dazzled faces of the faithful. Clinton's long, curiously angled fingers (like those of E.T.) reached yearningly, heliotropically, blindly into crowds (swat! swat! on the thigh), from which he emerged flushed and dazed and looking 10 years old. Assembling trivia, one noticed that Clinton, a big man, wears enormous suits that produce...
...film isn't desperate; it bends to the mood of each scene. Liman knows where the human comedy in Favreau's engaging script is: at the edges of the film frame, in the taut corners of a sensitive loser's mouth, in an unheard "I love you" (the film's subtle climactic shocker) on the other end of a phone line. He also gets super work from the whole cast--especially Vaughn, whose blithe charisma could make him the star Trent only dreams of becoming...
...COLD, FLAT STRETCHES of Garfield County, Montana, the self-proclaimed Justus Township is a bump on the taut horizon. fbi agents wearing flak vests and side arms who kept watch on the place last week saw a farmstead sprawl of family houses, cabins, trailers and some outbuildings in the midst of 960 acres of open land. All of it once belonged to Ralph Clark and his brother Emmett, busted wheat farmers turned fringe ideologues. Visitors say that these days Ralph Clark sometimes wears a lawman's five-pointed star, to signify that...