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...Charlie is burdened by her insistence that he empathize with her misery. Soon another couple arrives whose own personal issues mirror and illuminate those of Charlie and Nancy's. I thought I was watching a later, less effective incarnation of Woolf, except that there is one surprising twist: the second couple, Leslie (Kenny Kelleher) and Sarah (Nicole Dufrense), are green sea creatures...
Plenty of states pass out tax breaks, of course, even to polluters whose mess taxpayers must later clean up. But Louisiana's incentive program has an odd twist: the tax abatements are intended to help start-up businesses. The purpose of the industrial-tax-exemption program, in the state's own words, is to offer "to industry certain tax benefits at the most critical stage of any business endeavor--the beginning...
...compressed into several burglar alarm sales-people bent on income redistribution. Anyone familiar with Los Angeles will realize the timeliness of their "rob the rich" scam in which Heinrich Grigoris (Greg Tucci) boosts the sales of his alarms by staging robberies in the neighborhood of his potential clients. The twist in Grigoris' scheme is Tommy, the new salesman played with adorable, bumbling style by David Arquette. The real credit in The Alarmist must go to the actors. Like Mt. Rushmore, their place in the surroundings is hard to surmise, but they define it anyway. It is hard to sort...
...Arabs as crazed religious zealots and bombers. The Siege has many shortfalls, including two-dimensional characters. The Siege has its thrills and suspenses, and its big name cast shouldn't fail to lure the crowds, but don't expect much more than a typical action flick with the twist of modern day relevance. Keith D. DesRochers...
...estimated $2.2 million spent in the Religious Right's noble crusade, $500,000 came from James Dobson's Focus on the Family. In an ironic twist, the Mormons have become defenders of the "traditional family unit"; $600,000 of the $2.2 million came from the Church of Latter-Day Saints. The Christian Coalition distributed 200,000 voter guides about it the Sunday before the election...