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...death in 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich was regarded by many Western critics as the quintessential Communist Party musical apparatchik. The thin- lipped, bespectacled composer presented a bland face to the world, periodically bowing his head to the artistic dictates of Soviet authority and writing propagandistic tub thumpers to cloak his occasional forays into modernism. Or so it seemed...
...Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Tam Martinides Gray, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel...
...late days of the race, Turner's pitch grew increasingly shrill. U.S. officials had remained silent to avoid any hint of interference in Canadian affairs. Yet when Ronald Reagan made a bland 30-second reference to the free- trade pact in a long-planned speech on global trade -- the President called the accord "an example of cooperation at its best" -- Turner described Reagan's words as a "major breach of courtesy between the two nations" and castigated Mulroney for getting "his good friend at head office, Ronald Reagan, to help him do a job he can't complete himself." Again...
...what truly distinguishes this film is Parker's acute reimagining of a time and place. The frightened silence of the black community (and the astonishing courage of some of its members); the sullen resentment of "outsiders" from the white community; the alternately bland, sneering and self-righteous denials by the local lawmen that any crime was committed at all; the steadily mounting campaign of violence intended to terrorize everyone into complicity in this lie -- all of this is handled with a deft and compulsive power...
Leslie Nielsen, famous from playing the bland hero type in more than 1000 television adventure shows, has been the straight man for various ZAZ projects. Actually, Zucker says, he is quite funny. Zucker's sister told a story she remembers hearing about Zucker and Nielsen standing in a packed elevator when Nielsen said something like, "I wish I hadn't had that last taco," and provide suitable sound accompaniment with a whoopie cushion he occasionally carried around...