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...cutups of the '20s, Leopold and Loeb, are back, artier and hornier than ever. Stacy Cochran's My New Gun: doctor gives his restless wife a handgun; audience waits for it to go off. Add two other, more seasoned directors of outlaw movies -- Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) and Hal Hartley (Simple Men) -- and you have a tough new movie generation. If they'd all gone to film school, their yearbook portraits would be mug shots...
...emerge from hell into the Zen state of suspended agitation that Hal Hartley calls Long Island (though Simple Men was actually filmed in Texas). In the writer-director's third feature, following The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, a handsome bank robber (Robert Burke) and his decent younger brother (William Sage) search for their father, "the radical shortstop," who played for the Dodgers in the '50s and reputedly bombed the Pentagon in the '60s. Fugitive and busted on Long Island, the brothers fall in with the Hartley stock company of cagey women and forlorn men. To their deadpan surprise, the brothers...
...imaginary aerobic progress ("Jack has just bungee-jumped off the HOLLYWOOD sign"). Following a huge production number from the movie Hook with dozens of children suspended from the ceiling, Crystal remarked, "You know, Palance is the father of all those kids." Reacting to the biggest glitch -- when 1920s director Hal Roach, instead of just taking a bow, stood at his seat with no microphone and gave a long, inaudible speech for his Honorary Award for lifetime achievement -- Crystal gracefully joked, "The reason we couldn't hear Mr. Roach is that he is used to working in silent movies...
...people in Washington wonder if it's a coincidence that the network also seems to enjoy the coziest relations with the Administration. White House correspondent Ann Compton, who has arranged blind dates for White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, was chosen for the Oct. 11 session. ABC political director Hal Bruno and correspondent Carole Simpson will be on later panels. NBC, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have declined to participate, objecting to the protocol giving the candidates a say in choosing panel reporters...
...past quarter-century millennial visions have grown darker, lurid as a Brueghel. The best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s in America was Christian author Hal Lindsey's jeremiad, The Late Great Planet Earth. Among many other things, Lindsey predicted that the Soviet Union would invade Israel and that, after millions of the righteous were gathered up in the eschatological event known as the "rapture," Jesus would descend from the heavens to preside over the real New World Order. In his 1974 book Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, John F. Walvoord projected his vision: "Destruction on a formerly...