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...Looy, a gifted Belgian director does with it in his low key, persuasively realistic thriller. His killer, whose moral sense is completely intact, no matter what's going wrong with his less-than-total recall, learns that his wet work is designed to protect a ring of child vicious child abusers, whose members include highly placed government figures. He begins leaving enigmatic clues about the real criminals with a harassed detective and this unbalanced man ends up restoring something like balance to a complex and elegantly realized corner of the world-how many Belgian movies have you seen? Not often...
...nearly $3 million in FCC penalties for indecency. He didn?t help his cause when in 1992 he infamously declared on the air that he hoped the prostate cancer of an FCC commissioner would spread through his body. ?When I get angry and really fired up... I will say vicious things,? he told 60 Minutes recently, allowing that now, at 51, he might not be so cavalier. But part of Stern?s lure for the estimated 12 million Americans who tune in to his show has always been seeing how far he?d go. Which raises the question: will...
...moment of glory in the dark,” he calls it.So why would an actor who understands the pitfalls of stage-acting bite so harshly at others’ hiccups?“I don’t think any [critic] sets out to be vicious. You try to be just, and you try to be entertaining, and where those two things meet is the locus of the review. And that can be hurtful to the person who is the butt of the joke, so to speak. But it can’t be helped, because you want...
...most notorious Pistol won't attend the ceremony, of course, although his specter will loom large: Almost 27 years after the death of troubled bass player Sid Vicious (initially recruited to replace songwriter Matlock, allegedly booted for being a fan of the Beatles), the image of the lanky youth notorious for his cartoonish depravity, drug-abuse and violence, which became the sartorial prototype for punk rock, still dwarfs the band's actual accomplishments...
...Here are a few examples of love-affair autopsies. "Big Girls Don't Cry": guy breaks up with girl, she pretends it doesn't hurt; oh, but it does. "Walk Like a Man": girl spreads vicious rumors about guy, he's advised to walk away from her. "Dawn": poor boy selflessly tells rich girl she'd be better off with her own kind. "Rag Doll": rich boy's parents keep him from courting poor girl he loves. "Bye Bye Baby": married man won't pursue a girl he's fallen in love with. "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout...