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Most antihero movies wuss out. Studios figure that audiences need someone to root for, that the real Larry Flynt, say, would be too unpleasant to watch for two hours. But the TNT mini-series George Wallace (Aug. 24 and 26, 8 p.m. ET), like its subject, isn't afraid to give it to you straight, unpleasantness...
...outside Jerusalem's main food market, and they walked into the crowded center of the bazaar, carrying attache cases. At 1:10 p.m., positioned 100 ft. apart and apparently in eye contact, one of them, standing in a covered lane, detonated a lethal parcel containing about 20 lbs. of TNT packed with rusty screws and nails. Three seconds later, the second man exploded his suitcase bomb along an open street crammed with lunchtime shoppers. "This is madness," cried an anguished onlooker amid the tangle of human limbs, blackened flesh, crushed fruit and building rubble. The blasts also blew away...
Still another spacecraft might be launched to fly by Europa and drop a 20-lb. sphere onto its surface. Striking the frozen crust with the force of a suitcase full of TNT, the cosmic cannonball would release a mushroom cloud of ice particles into space; the mother ship would then fly through the crystalline mist, collect a bit of it and carry it back to Earth for analysis...
...Ryder truck rented from a body shop in Junction City, Kansas. Employees there helped produced the sketches that led to McVeigh's arrest. Among other evidence introduced today: a crumpled business card with McVeigh's fingerprints from Paulsen's Military Supply in Wisconsin on which was scribbled, "TNT at $5 a stick. Need more...
...family is also struggling to keep a lid on a lengthy interview that Lee conducted with Wallace last year, centering on the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham that killed four young black girls. Wallace has turned down Lee's request for carte-blanche use of the interview. TNT publicity maintains that the film will "fairly portray the historical record," but for Wallace, who has struggled both physically and mentally as a result of his racial policies and his injury, that could be exactly what he hopes to avoid...