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...rule of Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh). On his journey to Castle Nockmaar, he acquires a few worthy friends and foes: an outlaw warrior in the Han Solo mold (Val Kilmer), a dashing knight with Lando Calrissian's righteous swagger (Gavan O'Herlihy), a willful princess with martial guile (Joanne Whalley), a Yoda-like wizard (Billy Barty), an ancient sorceress -- Obi-Wan Kenobi's kid sister, perhaps -- struggling under a curse (Patricia Hayes) and a couple of impish brownies reminiscent of Artoo Detoo and See Threepio...
...patient as Penelope. Director Ron Howard (Splash, Cocoon) gets the social politics of the dwarfs' village right, but he is not adept at action scenes: some are too busy; others are botched. Kilmer tries hard in a role that might have fit Mel Gibson like an iron glove, and Whalley, teen angel of the serious British mini-series (The Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective) is wasted as the heroine. Both Kilmer and Whalley, in fact, are curiously irrelevant to the climactic battle. But then, Willow is a Star Wars without star quality, an Indiana Jones adventure with the heart...
...three days of interviews. In addition to the seven actual interviewers, all of whom are field or line managers rather than personnel employees, McCreery brings additional team members, ranging from recent B-School graduates who can give students a description of the academia-employment transition, to Lilly Whalley, a Black woman who offers women and minorities her personal perspectives on integrating the corporate world...
...typical enough urban complaint, but the return address was a surprise: 245 Whalley Avenue, the site of the county jail. Signed by the residents of Cell-block C, the letter was written by an inmate serving time on a drug conviction, who said his wife was afraid to visit him because of crime in the prison area. "If you are not safe entering and leaving a correctional center," lamented the cons, "where are you safe?" City officials agreed: they increased lighting in the area and beefed up police patrols...
...many of the facts in the case of the late Washington Fixer Nathan Voloshen and Martin Sweig, aide to then House Speaker John McCormack, who used McCormack's office for profitable influence peddling. Voloshen and Sweig were convicted of perjury. More recently Anderson branded Pennsylvania Congressman J. Irving Whalley a "backcountry Bobby Baker," accusing the seven-term Republican of taking kickbacks and padding his payroll. Whalley has announced that he will not seek reelection. Anderson does not confine his muckraking to Capitol Hill. Two weeks ago he implicated top Latin American officials in a heroin smuggling scheme...