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...with a handgun that you can't do with a rifle? You can still hunt with a rifle, join a shooting club, stop a burglar, or even join a revolutionary militia. Perhaps you can't open a drawer and blow a hole in your spouse's chest in a wild fit of rage, but might regret having done that afterwards...
...defend him. Can the case against these powerful solons be won? And if so, will Andy be alive to savor the victory? Philadelphia's agony lies less in these questions than in Andy's drastic deterioration. Hanks so scrupulously, heroically mimes the wasting wrought by the disease, from chest lesions to a 30-lb. weight loss, that Jonathan Demme's film ultimately becomes a documentary on the ravages of AIDS -- and on the masochistic machismo of Method acting...
...often, when smart directors tackle a "controversial" issue like Vietnam or the Irish question or AIDS, they forget some of their art. Instead of building scenes deftly, allusively, they accumulate horrific detail to make sure you get the point. The films get longer, more ponderous; they sit on your chest until you finally surrender to their good intentions. In the process, they may become sentimental, cautionary fables of mistaken identity, compiling atrocities and piling them on photogenic victims. Suffering sanctifies Le Ly and Gerry's dad and Andy, makes them objects of veneration to the faithful; everyone wants to kiss...
...youth violence, some sporting red anti-handgun buttons. "We have to take steps to stop these guns from pouring into our communities," said Attorney General - Doyle, addressing the crowd. Banners listed the names of youths killed in the past four years -- kids like Kendra Miles, 15, shot in the chest in October, allegedly by a 14-year-old boy while standing on her front porch; Monte Fuller, 12, shot in the mouth this fall in a drive-by; Charles Brenson, 15, shot dead last month after refusing to surrender his ski jacket and shoes. Three days after Brenson's death...
Hoefflin, whose clients reportedly include Joan Rivers, Ivana Trump and ^ Elizabeth Taylor, appears to have close ties to Jackson. Though a plastic surgeon, he attended Jackson when the singer complained of chest pains three years ago. He has spent time at Jackson's home and is credited with the singer's 1982 nose job as well as the 1984 scalp surgery for burns Jackson received while filming a Pepsi commercial. Says one source: "He kept telling Hoefflin to make it smaller, make it smaller." Jackson has said it was the painful after-effects of scalp surgery that started...