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DIED. WINNIE JUDD, 93, who as a young secretary got off a train with two dead bodies stuffed in her luggage, triggering the sensational 1930s trial that dubbed her the "trunk murderess"; in Phoenix, Ariz. A sanity hearing spared her the death penalty and sent her packing to an Arizona hospital for three decades. Later judged sane, she went to prison, and was released...
Under the bold, sensitive direction of Jonathan Demme, Winfrey's Sethe is a creature as stern as she is strong--as much oak as flesh and blood. She moves with the heaviness of someone dragging large and fatal memories behind her like a full steamer trunk. She is, as the book puts it, "iron-eyed"; her gaze is an Old Testament judgment, her love a demon that can crush those it enfolds. The actress and the character share intelligence and passion, but in many particulars Sethe is the anti-Oprah. If Sethe were a talk-show host, she would stare...
Charming convict Jack Foley (George Clooney) breaks out of prison. When U.S. marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), conveniently parked nearby, tries to block his egress, Foley shoves her into a car trunk, hops in and tells his pal (Ving Rhames) to drive. It's certainly a cute way to meet; after the long car ride, the two are besotted with each other. Sisco chases Foley to Detroit, where he's planning to relieve a fellow ex-com of five million dollars worth of diamonds, and she certainly does find...
...rapid courtship, replete with the secret rendezvous (London, Frankfurt) and code name (Operation Gamma) that lovers and business executives are wont to employ. The result, the largest industrial marriage in history, takes what had been the world's No. 6 car company, Chrysler, and stuffs it into the trunk of erstwhile No. 15 Daimler-Benz, to produce the planet's fifth biggest automobile concern. The new combine, valued at $40 billion, will generate $130 billion in sales and employ more than 400,000 people...
...hugged the trunk, and "the tree spoke to me in a beautiful, very calming, powerful female voice. She said, 'Julia, think of the trees.' I said, 'Of course--what do you think I'm doing up here?' She said, 'No. Think of how the trees allow their branches to blow in the wind. I'll do everything to save...