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...chief villain is a mole at Arnie's spy agency...
Judge Frollo, spoken and sung by Tony Jay--a classically-trained stage actor--steals the show as Disney's greatest villain since Snow White's wicked Queen herself. Frollo's solo "Hellfire" combines the best of the score of Alan Menken (music man for all five of Disney's last animated features) with riveting, spooky animation...
LARGER THAN LIFE (July 19). Bill Murray, who looks great as the villain in Kingpin, here goes on a cross-country trek with an elephant. Murray's a terrific comic actor, but really, road movies are the pits unless it's the late '60s, the elephant is a mule, and Jack Nicholson is along for the ride...
...Katrina survives above the wreckage of their marriage. In other lightly veiled dramatizations of his life, he lashes out at a former mistress who sleeps her way to silent-movie stardom. "Love is vertical," he writes. "You are relentlessly horizontal." Off the stage he confronts the novel's villain, an envious journalist and failed writer, with the killer line, "If your fiction was half as imaginative as your lies, you would have been famous years...
...dimension. Almost all the 20th century's horrors (the slaughter of the Armenians, Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainian kulaks, the Hitler Holocaust) have begun with a demonization of others. Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost...