Word: warners
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Some officials agree that records should be labeled to warn parents if a song is blatantly offensive, as many are these days. On the flip side, others complain that rating systems are too subjective. Warner Bros.' Bob Merlis says Elvis Presley could have been stamped with an X for promoting bondage and sadism in (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear. In that 1957 classic, the King cooed, "Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere." LABOR RELATIONS Of Pride and Protectionism...
Safekeeping (Penzler; 202 pages; $15.95) and Fletch Won (Warner; 265 pages; $14.95) display the astonishing range of Gregory Mcdonald. After winning two Edgar Allan Poe awards (1975 and 1977) for the first books featuring the raffish investigative reporter Irwin Maurice Fletcher, Mcdonald declined into extended archness of phrase and plot. He found his way again in last year's Flynn's In, featuring his other series character, Boston Police Official Francis X. Flynn. The film of Fletch, starring Chevy Chase, was a summer comedy hit, and Fletch Won continues the upbeat pace. Here the brash young man is observed...
...respectful of Hong Kong film tradition, as the veteran actors he has assembled. The film merrily flouts the laws of time and physics. Teeth fly upward in slo-mo; then a Road Runner--style chase zips by in superspeedy-mo. The Pig Sty denizens have the resilience of Warner Bros. cartoon characters: lips, throats, bosoms expand to gargantuan size, then snap back. Punctuating the mayhem are sound effects (mooing, clucking, cat mewls, toad croaks) worthy of a Spike Jones symphony...
With Negroponte's confirmation hearings scheduled for this week, Pentagon defenders say that Cambone's office is required to have a charter and that it is doing some streamlining to help the DNI. "I think it's wise," Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John Warner says of the charter. "That's not going to limit [Negroponte] if he wants to call someone else" at one of the Pentagon's many intel shops...
...move contradicted the G.O.P.'s long-standing support of states' rights, generating concern from a few independent-minded members of the party, like Virginia Senator John Warner. As the only Republican Senator to take to the floor to speak against the emergency legislation, Warner declared in the Congressional Record that "I fear the door has opened, and Congress, which by constitutional mandate is entrusted to pass laws for the nation, will again and again be petitioned to deal with personal situations which are the responsibility of the several states." Even so, the idea of a meaningful split emerging...