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Time and again he reduces his charac ters to elements in static landscapes, fur ther distancing us from Molly and friends. friends.
Higgins is a miniaturist, and at his best a Fragonard of the nefarious. But in Cogan 's Trade he is not quite at his best. He spends too much time away from his strongest character and sput ters four-letter words until some pages read like excerpts from a...
The costumes - sequins and satins from the rubbish bins of recent history - suggest a high school prom queen masquerading as a tart. The songs are renovated memories from as far back as the '20s: rockers like Do You Want to Dance? and Leader of the Pack, smoky laments like...
There is an appealing performance by Jennifer Salt as the investigative journalist whose cries of "Wolf, wolf!" go unheeded until it is almost too late, and Margot Kidder is touching and frightening as the most thoroughly split personality in movie history. Above all, however, Sisters reveals De Palma as capable...
Many medical and legal authorities object to substituting one form of addiction for another. Others are concerned about the lack of supervision in some treatment centers. Unless the cen ters check urine samples daily, addicts can continue to use heroin. But the program has solid support among those addicts enrolled...