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...originality, the film, set in 1985, tries to keep the laffs coming with a tiring and finally irritating stream of take-offs of TV just the way it is today. L.A. crime dramas get the treatment with "Police Comic," a one-minute bit in which a stand-up joking cop makes the bad guy give up with one joke. Weak? You should hear the joke. The new ethnic sitcoms are covered with "Ramon and Sonja," where a typical gypsy family, a cab-driver, two whores and a "faggot" (I'd like a peanut for every time that word is used...
Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's darkest, most disturbing film. Shot in Venice, California after years of exile from Hollywood studios, the film stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, an obese, autocratic cop who frames his victims to ensure that the guilty do not escape punishment. Quinlan represents Welles's moral vision at its most complex and contradictory: on the one hand, he is a repulsive figure--brutal, racist, eats candy bars the way most people smoke cigarettes--and employs illegal methods; but on the other, he cares deeply about people, unlike his self-righteous and priggish antagonist, the Mexican...
...play kingmaker for his friend Senator Henry Jackson. But the burly Rizzo -who vowed during his own campaign last year that "I will make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" and won re-election with 57% of the vote-has got himself into deep political trouble. A former cop and police commissioner from South Philly's tough "Little Italy" district, Rizzo, 55, is accused of failing to uphold law-and-order in the city. Having campaigned on the slogan "He held taxes down," he is now advocating harsh new levies. So sharply has his honor's popularity...
Because Rick moved from one job to another for 25 years at Harvard, he has a broad social circle. He'll chat in the yard with John Finley about the resident birds or discuss his last assignment with a Harvard cop. "I have a very deep vertical cut because of the way I came up in the university," Rick says. "I still have a lot of friends who are engineers and janitors and I talk and eat lunch with them--they're old friends. But I've come up a little...
...casts off husbands. He can no longer reach his gently demented mother, who brings Arabs home to bed down in her rag shop. Isaac's brother Leo is an alimony evader who would rather stay in jail playing pinochle with his wardens than return to the streets. The cop's only solace resides in the bear hugs of Ida Stutz, the devoted fiancee who spoons him full of honey on cold nights...