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...travel plans. Security sources say the hit bore the marks of the special services, Russia's blanket term for the security police and intelligence bodies. The sources speculate that the killers, reportedly a man and a woman, were either moonlighting security police or former operatives now working for the underworld...
Eventually it is the manly cowboy riding into town who, in one incredibly contrived scene, manages to send the evil spirit of Kidman's ex into the underworld. Aidan Quinn, who plays the good-looking detective called in to solve the case of the disappearance of Kidman's ex-boyfriend, is the quintessential John Wayne cowboy that Hollywood has never fallen out of love with. Unfortunately, he's not nearly as good-looking as the camera would have us believe. Cursed with a bad haircut and looking overweight, Quinn will never be a real heart-throb alongside the likes...
Irma Vep seems trapped. The Queen of the Paris underworld is hiding in her attic as the police storm upstairs. Fortunately, she keeps 100 ft. of rope for just such exigencies. She coils it around her waist, climbs out the window and falls, twirling like a runaway yoyo, till she lands seven stories below. Vice triumphant...
...industry, they hope to get as much hard currency as possible into state coffers," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "The problem is there's little chance that they have the infrastructure to enforce it." The state machinery required to police liquor distribution is in disarray, while the Russian underworld -- which has a huge stake in the market -- is stronger than ever...
...plot: Hades busts Persephone for wearing imitation Patrick Cox white loafers and forces her to spend the winter months in the Underworld of Las Vegas before being released to Beverly Hills for Contempo Casuals' spring sales. The relationship between script and clothing was murky, for Monoyudis's palette owed more to 1988 Miami than the West Coast. The two halves of Persephone's wardrobe, from her winter internment in Las Vegas and her springtime rebirth in Los Angeles, were nearly identical in their erratic eclecticism...