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...Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is a clever, hunky, athletic law student. Make that was. For Allan is hit by a truck and wakes up a quadriplegic. He is told to look on the bright side: "You'll get all the best parking spaces." But for Allan, this is a life near death. His mother (Joyce Van Patten) cloys and crushes. His girlfriend runs off with the surgeon who may have botched his operation. His nurse, a sulky sadist named Maryanne (Christine Forrest), cares more for her parakeet than for her patient. And Allan's best friend (John Pankow...
...thunk it? A horror movie with brains and guts. That is, as it happens, the theme of George A. Romero's Monkey Shines: a battle of intellect vs. instinct, the moral vs. the feral, Allan man vs. Ella monkey. Ella learns to know Allan, through a kind of transspecies ESP, and to love him, with a frightening intensity. He is seized with visions, from Ella's point of view, of the creature's nocturnal rambles as she acts out his jealousy and frustration in the most violent form; and Romero films the images as if through a late-night monkey...
...Harvard response also expresses regret for "inconvenience" caused the court and Jackson's attorney, Evan T. Lawson, by the recent discovery by the University's lawyer, Allan A. Ryan, Jr., of hundreds of pages of documents from B-School files after the trial's completion...
...Allan Bloom ((author of The Closing of the American Mind)) is a brilliant man, very good for higher education. But much too despairing. He doesn't see the happiness and spontaneity of American life. I hate that prissy crap where he's anti-rock 'n' roll...
Jackson's lawyer, Evan T. Lawson, said the delay indicated that Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan, Jr. had discovered a large number of unrevealed documents. Neither Jackson nor her attorney know what the documents are, but if they prove relevant to the case, Lawson said he will have the option of reopening the case for up to 10 days after the verdict is announced...