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...Carlito needs more than a good woman to avoid recidivism. He needs Pat O'Brien. You remember Pat O'Brien, Cagney's superego, trying to keep his wayward pal on a righteous path. What Carlito has instead is his friend and shyster lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn, in a terrific performance). He is in too far with the Mob, and he needs Carlito's muscular help in a cockamamie plan to avoid gangland's vengeance. It goes awry, naturally, and Carlito's subsequent flight brings out the best in De Palma -- breathless, bravura moviemaking, intricately designed, but playing like...
...said never again," recalls Graham, who put everyone on straight salary and later set up a board dominated by outsiders. (Graham has, however, ministered to his wayward fellow preachers; after Jim Bakker's fall from grace, he quietly visited the imprisoned televangelist in Minnesota for a prayer session.) For years Graham's annual salary was $69,150 plus a $23,050 housing allowance, but last April his board raised that to $101,250 plus $33,750. He was given homes in Florida and California but donated them to Christian causes...
...Ames flees from her adulterous husband to the small town of Amapolas. She seeks a haven from hassles, from relationships, from dealing. She is joined on her hilltop fastness by Fran Bowles, a wayward nymphomaniac, fascinated by charming but fickle men. She buys her villa to stage an elaborate seduction scene. Fran, in turn, brings her widowed mother, Ursula, who has decided to end her days in Mexico, the land of her birth. She hopes to ease the transition between life and death, to clothe herself in an unreal, symbolic landscape...
...actors' wicked inventiveness, and everyone's passionate, quick-witted desire to expose the vagaries of human behavior under quotidian pressure that simply sweep you up and sweep away whatever doubts you may have about its grand design. It is, finally, as a richly pulsating, hugely entertaining human comedy -- antic, wayward, glancing -- that Short Cuts bemuses, amuses and finally entrances...
Although Cliffs Notes has rescued many a wayward student from academic self-destruction, in so doing, they have developed a rather unsavory reputation as "cheat sheets...