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...Fred Willard, playing the mayor of a small Colorado town, says (without irony) to a small gathering of citizens, “I would rather be here with you people than with the finest people in the world...
...election fund. The following day the Vice President arrived at Oklahoma City's Petroleum Club for a $1,000-a-person fund raiser for House GOP conference chairman J.C. Watts. Cheney also attended a fund raiser for Senate GOP leader Trent Lott's leadership fund. That reception at the Willard Hotel, an ornate Washington landmark, was packed with lobbyists. Cheney spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise said the fund raisers had been prescheduled, and were not the only events Cheney attended during that time...
...tale, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is about an Army officer, Captain Willard (Sheen), sent to find and "terminate with extreme prejudice" the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has "gone insane" and set himself up in Cambodia as lord of an army of Montagnard headhunters. On his long trek up the Mekong River, Willard learns that in this war, man is ever at risk of becoming the thing he hates, the unknown he fears...
...Cyclops (Robert Duvall's demented surfer stud Kilgore, who thinks napalm "smells like victory") and a group of Sirens (the Playboy Playmates who entertain the horny troops). Coppola, deep into his own Big Muddy in the Philippines, was calling his film "the Idiodyssey." He soon felt himself devolving from Willard to Kurtz--from the man on a quest to the madman at its end. But he was enough of a showman to release a picture of Academy-consideration length. Now he's enough of an artist to lay out the full story...
...material includes scenes on the boat, as Willard gets to know its crew (including a very young Larry Fishburne); the crew's sexual encounter with two of the Playmates, who, like the young men, are in Vietnam on a mission of mercy that will degrade them; a new scene with Kurtz, in which he puts Willard in a cage and reads from a TIME article about the war; and a long, ghostly reverie set on a French plantation. There Willard finds a fractious old colonial family and is seduced by a young widow (the ever beautiful Aurore Clement...