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...point where the road forks left toward the Coast Guard station and Moriches Bay, the people who were allowed to pass park their cars in a baseball field and walk a mile or so in the hot dust. License plates read Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. The TV people have come with huge trucks and satellite dishes, some of which are the size of dinner plates and sit atop tall poles; they are connected to the trucks by red wires in coils. A parking lot full of these trucks looks like a moon landing at rush hour...
Director Joel Schumacher's breathlessly paced and incident-crammed movie will induce a certain sense of deja vu among veteran viewers. Yes, we have intruded in this dust, killed this mockingbird before. But that was back in the days before lawyer jokes, before we became transfixed by transgressive hipness, before we became a full-time culture of irony...
Okay, so what do I do? Do I just sit back, relax, let old age sneak up behind me and KAPOW!, I'm watching "Matlock?" Do I fight it by regression--dust off my old G.I. Joes and restart the never-ending combat with Cobra? Do I run to stay in place, or as John Cougar Mellencamp put it, "hold on to 16 as long...
...filming his characters' story-telling and story-acting for the audience to become restless. As a relaxed murder mystery, a view of smalltown politics, and a not at all taxing study in intergenerational relations, the movie is well worth a look and should not be left in the dust of its bigger-footed, ham-handed cousins the blockbusters. In short, the movie's pace and generational eye tends to leave you giving lingering, meaningful looks at the world and its stories around you--the perfect antidote to the speed-freak pace of most summer fare...
...discussed at the recent G-7 summit in Lyons, where other member nations condemned the U.S. legislation, there has been no concerted effort to challenge the law. Scott notes that Canada's Minister of Foreign Trade, Arthur Eggleton, has said he hopes wiser heads will prevail when the dust settles after the U.S. presidential election. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar