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Alnilam's protagonist is Frank Cahill, an Atlanta amusement-park and swimming-pool owner who has recently been blinded by diabetes. He learns that his son Joel is missing and presumed dead after a military aircraft training accident in North Carolina. Cahill and his touchy German shepherd Zack travel to Peckover air base to learn more, even though father has never laid eyes on son. Cahill had been abandoned by his wife shortly before Joel was born, 19 years earlier...
...these pictures tell a story? Yes, a little one, about Jack and Zack (Waits) and the chatty Italian murderer (Roberto Benigni) they meet in prison. Planning their escape or simply getting to tolerate each other, they are three shaggy humans looking for a way out, and they communicate their anxiety through a kind of existential slapstick: Godot meets the Three Stooges. If you can get into the rhythms of Waits' disk-jockey patter, Benigni's fractured English and Lurie's sullen explosions, you may find Down by Law mildly ingratiating. Otherwise you will sympathize with the jailbirds as they mark...
...Zack Anderson and David Yearsley never played the sport before they came to Harvard...
John Lurie is back from Paradise as the lowgrade lowlife Jack, a man so cool he is almost dead. Singer Tom Waites gives an outstanding film debut as the alcoholic Zack, a washed out Wolfman Jack with a Valium temperment. Robertc Benigni starts out as a Chico Marx knock-off with a fondness for "famous American poet Bob Frost," but his character grows into the most capable and sympathetic of the trio, winning the hearts of both the audience and the beautiful Nicoletta (Nicoletta Braschi...
...drive of American life. He is a very stabilizing influence in American fashion." The determined dreamer from the Bronx has become a special kind of design star, whose imagination is less a source of amazement than of security for his still growing audience. Says up-and-coming Designer Zack Carr: "Ralph Lauren is respected for his consistent style and intrinsic quality year after year, and I appreciate that." So, evidently, do millions of customers who have come to believe that Polo is not just an elite pastime but a seductive style for the good life...