Word: villains
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...Roosevelt, as before, is a bully minor character, though here he is Assistant Secretary of the Navy, not New York City police commissioner. And in a brilliant bit of historical casting, Clarence Darrow, a rising courtroom wizard from Chicago, turns up to confound the good guys and defend the villain at a tense upstate New York murder trial...
...played really bad guys like Attila the Hun and Caiaphas, but being portrayed as a villain by his son didn't sit well with ANTHONY QUINN. And there's nothing like a public, comprehensive airing of one's failings to put a fellow in a compromising mood. So after Danny Quinn testified that his father was physically brutal to his mother IOLANDA (above, with Quinn in 1989), the actor, 82, settled his long divorce wrangle. He reportedly handed over half his $15 million fortune but salved his wounds by announcing that he plans to marry Kathy Benvin, 35, the mother...
...throughout the entire movie (except when he's staring into Alice's eyes), which makes you want to slam your hands on his shoulders and shake him into speaking coherent sentences. Patrick Stewart brings a fine creepiness to the role of the shrewd, vicious Dr. Jonas. He's a villain you love to hate, especially when Jerry finally gives him his comeuppance...
...find greater sustenance in Elizabeth Perle McKenna's When Work Doesn't Work Anymore. Where Ban Breathnach tries to cool women's overheated lives with a sprinkling of sachets, McKenna delves deep to identify and inspect the "indigestion in [women's] souls." What emerges as the chief gastric villain is a workplace that "makes no allowance for anything to be more important than work...
...first adventure, Vanishing Act (1995), Whitefield sleeps with the villain, supposing him to be the good guy. In the current novel, however, Whitefield does the unthinkable: she marries a nice, decent doctor she has known for years. He's real, not a villain, but suddenly he is the target of a female hit person who uses nakedness as deep disguise. Will...