Word: villain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still worth 90 minutes of your life, is slightly more topical: Hot Shots, Part Deux. Like a "fast track" rally, it's full of ex-presidents, and snuck in among the groaners is a classic swordfight between a near-bionic Lloyd Bridges (as the current CIC) and the returning villain de la semana . . . mustachioed mad chemist Saddam Hussein. The best laughs in life are cheap...
...easy to cast them as these horrible villain-types," he says. "It's more a reflection of society that people feel they have to go through these means to be accepted...
...subsequent controversy roiled artists, politicians, the A.C.L.U., the courts and editorial writers, who saw in it the clash of titanic forces.The villain in the melodrama was the government. It can haul you before congressional committees and ruin your career, as it did to the Hollywood Ten. It can threaten you with jail time on trumped-up charges, as it did to the Chicago Seven. It can bar you from going to your local high school, as it did to the Little Rock Nine...
...first presents him ambiguously, quoting Biblical passages. Part of this sympathy may be due to the means of attaining footage. Since the footage largely came from the Branch Davidians themselves, Koresh may have censored it. But that which Gazecki retains shows Koresh as a complex man, far from the villain portrayed by the media...
...Irma P. Hall) is warm, loving, doomed. One daughter, Maxine (Vivica A. Fox), is heart-smart and, since she's a mother, a font of family wisdom. Another, Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), a successful lawyer who has subsidized most of the family's extravagances, is, of course, the villain of the piece. Poor Williams: her pretty mouth is forever prissed in disapproval at her more sympathetic sibs...