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...protest in the Yard but it is finally safe to walk there. The "open university" and its police fan club have provided guaranteed protection at all hours of the day and night. Before the advent of the wood and plastic bag huts, the Yard was patrolled infrequently by one cop...
...Congress also showed last week that it cared more about the NRA's dollars than it did about the lives of policemen, who swarmed Capitol Hill to defeat a bill which their organizations had labeled "cop-killing...
Throughout the '30s, Cagney enjoyed stardom in a series of feisty, defiantly urban parts: a street-smart swindler in Blonde Crazy (1931), a slum-bred cop in G-Men (1935), a ruined bootlegger in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). By late in the decade he was one of the highest-paid actors in the country, a status he achieved partly by walking out repeatedly on Warners to press for higher pay and protest its grueling working conditions and bumper-to-bumper production schedule. For all his fame, Cagney had little taste for Hollywood night life. He liked best the company...
...interim, however, Rudolph seems to have mislaid his sense of humor, and Trouble in Mind is a walk on the dour side. The locale is "RainCity" (which is not going to please the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, where the film was shot). A cashiered cop named Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld...
...cop fled Mexico in 1982, after his friend President Jose Lopez Portillo left office. Since 1984 Mexican authorities have sought to get hold of Durazo, who has become a symbol of widespread police corruption. That year FBI agents arrested him when he stepped off a private jet in Puerto Rico. Durazo fought extradition through the U.S. court system, but last week he received a final thumbs-down from two Supreme Court Justices and was sent back to Mexico City to face charges...