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...against terrorists. One explanation for the right's indignation is Shultz's refusal to fill key State slots with true believers. Another comes from New York Times Columnist William Safire, who wrote last week in defense of Shultz, "America's right wing sorely misses Nelson Rockefeller . . . Politics without a villain is like a lens without a focal point." The man to hold responsible for Reagan's foreign policy, he noted, is Reagan. TERRORISM A Score Still Unsettled...
...million). Uganda and Kampuchea have produced more recent evidence that Hitler's policy of mass murder as an instrument of statecraft was not unique. Yet the Final Solution remains the archetype of man's bestiality to man, and there are compelling reasons for this to be so. The villain: Hitler still seems the embodiment of melodramatic evil, a spellbinder sent from hell or central casting. The perpetrators: a civilized Western nation conceived the outrage of genocide and executed the plan with technological precision; if the Germans could do it, anyone could. The victims: the Jews, eternal outsiders, were traditionally treated...
...chatties or peo-plies." L.A. does move, notably in a brutal, bloated car-chase sequence pilfered from Friedkin's nifty The French Connection. In his God's-eye-view shots and acrobatic love scenes, he also pays tribute to the styles of Martin Scorsese and MTV. So the villain, Counterfeiter Willem Dafoe, is no more rotten or less picturesque than the hero, William Petersen. So everybody stinks. It matters not when, like Friedkin, you have fashioned a fetid movie hybrid: Miami Vile...
Thomas Haden Church's performance in Sideways, just released on DVD, won him an Oscar nomination and a role as the villain in 2007's Spiderman...
Looming maliciously as the film’s well-groomed villain, Lambert Wilson delivers each line with silky-smooth narcissism, securing his position as the coolest, suavest French badass in Hollywood cinema...