Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until he was finally hit by the I.R.A. (to him, just more authority to affront), he was equally capable of cheekily parking on a police-station bench all night to give himself an alibi, or of crucifying a suspected informer on a pool table. Happily married, he kept his wife's sister as a mistress and sired children with both women. In this admittedly fictionalized retelling, his other reliable relationship is with an implacably pursuing detective (superbly underplayed by Jon Voight) who hates himself for succumbing to a psychopath's irresistible charm...
Wade Whitehouse (Nolte) is a part-time cop and a full-time burnout. His wife has left him; his daughter squirms as he tries charming her; his sadistic father (James Coburn) poisons Wade's prospects. His educated brother (Willem Dafoe) is too far away. His girlfriend (Sissy Spacek) can't soothe his dark side. His best pal may have killed a rich man for hire. And Wade has this awful toothache...
...missing the best reason for owning that console. In fact, I think Zelda is the best video game ever made. You'll feel as if you're playing inside your own movie. For the PlayStation console, I love the old Bust-a-Move 2 game by Acclaim ($19.99). My wife and I play it more than is healthy. There's also a four-player version for Nintendo...
...digital is L.L. Bean's "burrito bag," which we gave the kids for Hanukkah. It solves the age-old problem of being too hot or too cold in a sleeping bag by including a fold-out fleece liner. I want one for myself (hint to coffee-table-desiring wife...
...healthy bite out of a juicy story. It relates the case to the South's effort to heal the schisms of the Civil War (in an opening flashback, a Confederate soldier sings of home); portrays the tensions between Frank, a transplanted New Yorker, and his more assimilated Southern-Jewish wife Lucille; and sketches everything from the sensationalistic press coverage to the complex social pressures on the case, in which Frank's chief accuser (and, it now appears, the probable murderer) was a black...