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Chasing a man they suspected had stolen a pair of boots, the G-men stumbled into an AIM camp and, perhaps understandably, a fire fight broke out, at the end of which the agents were dead. Three AIM members were charged with their murder. Two were acquitted, but Leonard Peltier, who was tried separately, was convicted on the basis of evidence the film insists -- quite convincingly -- was trumped up. He continues to serve double life sentences...
...G-MEN -- THE RISE OF J. EDGAR HOOVER (PBS, Nov. 18, 9 p.m. on most stations). The controversial former FBI chief gets a grilling in this American Experience documentary...
...Swayze). Director Kathryn Bigelow has few peers at this aerobic cinema, as she proved a few years back with the weird, beautiful Near Dark. Here, though, limning the attempts of FBI agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes her wits. Naked babe nukes G-men. Hero weakly abets heist. Director defers climax for a little documentary on skydiving. So how do you rate a stunningly made film whose plot buys so blithely into macho mysticism that it threatens to turn into an endless bummer? Looks 10, Brains...
...diplomats and their families, one carload of evicted Iraqis got lost on the way to the airport; up popped the FBI agents who had been shadowing them to provide helpful directions. Later, while waiting for their flight, some restive and hungry Iraqi children were treated to pizza by attentive G-men. These were not spontaneous acts of kindness. The FBI was sending a message to Saddam that his people could not move without being monitored by Uncle Sam. Bureau officials believe this breathe-down-their-necks strategy may keep Iraq and its sympathizers from hatching terrorist plots...
...marching feet, a burst of machine-gun fire, sirens wailing. The din itself told a story: the mobilization of the forces of good against those of evil; a climactic conflict; finally, the removal of the dead and wounded. Then a stentorian voice blared an all-points bulletin: "Calling the G-men! Calling all Americans to war on the underworld...