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...voice that intones words as if she had learned them at Berlitz school on Mars- puts on an extraordinary show. Her co-stars are almost as riveting: Page, at once the fussy authoritarian and mischievouse child; Ashley, making her role more urgent by playing it post-Talllulah, with traffic-cop gestures and a sexy voice that can break in mid-syllable like a Fernando Valenzuela screwball. If Agnes of God just fails as an example of the playwright's craft, it shines as a demonstration of three actresses' seductive...
...Shea's residual pride and growing self-hatred prevent him from putting euphemisms between himself and his experience. Raw sin is like a dose of salts, evil is a flail for self-punishment, and the law smells of deals, not ideals. Even his Roman Catholic soul can cop a plea: "He had his script worked out. Confession on his deathbed. Penance. Extreme unction. Two sacraments for the price of one. A perfect act of contrition. Not to mention a perfect way to hedge his bet in case he had backed the wrong horse...
Then the neighbors, who had gathered outside, became quite concerned about my mental health, offering me tea as I told them what a stupid fool I really am. A decade passed before a cop arrived to fill out forms and bestow a traffic citation and a bill for the tow truck. He drove me back to the house, asking me how long I'd be in town and what I was doing that night. "Feeling guilty," I answered miserably...
Brandon-a lover of Morgan Fairchild could only have this name; it exudes machismo-is a studly looking fellow complete with suede jacket and baby blues, and he tries to get the police to give Jamie some protection. But their cop friend, Captain Maxwell (Vince Edwards), whom they call Max, of course, has no time to bother with such trivial things as potential psychopathic sex murderers. He delivers to Brandon's face a terribly ridiculous speech explaining that crime has become a way of life in America. Oh. really? Brandon asks what he should do then, if the police aren...
While it's nice that he ends his book on an upbeat note, Mitchell's hope seems to be a cop-out. Mitchell's conclusions are about as realistic as it is to expect arms negotiator Paul Nitze to conclude, "Sure there are nuclear weapons on the face of the earth, but maybe--just maybe--someday, they'll disappear." With overworked examples--if thorough ones--and with an endless array of profound questions. One can only ask why the author didn't spend an extra chapter analyzing the motives and machinations of men and whistleblowers...