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...died in 1994, many pundits, historians and Republican politicians eulogized him as a great but tragic figure who had managed to achieve redemption after slithering away from the Presidency in disgrace. This portrayal is a ludicrous misrepresentation of a man who actually attempted to impose his own brand of vicious and venal fascism on America. Yet, partially due to such revisionism, Nixon is almost certain to fare better in the historical record than his first vice president Spiro Agnew, who died two weeks...
...then he'd suddenly say, 'Now, you guys have never directed anything before, right?' And we'd say, 'Nope, nothing on film.' And we'd talk for 10 minutes, and he'd say, 'You never directed anything?'" recalls Scott, who worked with Altman on Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. "But in the end, he said, 'Oh well, it's not too damn hard anyway...
...complicated and, well, postmodern. All of which is stimulating, analytically speaking, but it can get dizzying as theater. Thankfully, there is enough good, old-fashioned sexual intrigue in both plots to keep the audience interested, even when the verbal dueling gets ridiculously complex. The script is also full of vicious one-liners. When the nubile and conniving Chloe is rejected by her would-be prey, another character remarks: "I wouldn't worry about Chloe. She's old enough to float on her back...
...warfare. As protector-in-chief over the past five years, the U.S. has exerted its diplomacy and spent at least $900 million to bring the Kurds together as an effective anti-Saddam force. But after every U.S.-brokered cease-fire, fighting resumed; 4,000 Kurds have died in such vicious brawls...
Somebody--maybe screenwriters Joe Gayton and Lewis Colick--must have pitched this as The Defiant Ones only with lots of guns and cars and four-letter words. Keats (Wayans) is the undercover cop; Moses (Sandler), a member of a vicious drug gang, is the man in shackles. Together they're on the run from Moses' old gang lord (James Caan), who is so evil that his day job is selling used cars...