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...worth saving? Dour sci-fi satire always has this message: I have seen the future, and it sucks. In this teeming hellhole (lots of clatter and clutter), madmen get the best lines, and a heroic time traveler hardly stands a chance. Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips (notably Vertigo). But at the sight of three giraffes crossing a city bridge, you'll think of a more recent movie. A bad one. In its frantic mix of chaos, carnage and zoo animals, 12 Monkeys is Jumanji...
Jill Riley, spokesperson for the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, said in a telephone interview that, based on the photographs, no charges were filed against Angeli because there was no "lascivious intent," meaning that her photos "did not have any lewd connotations...
Confronted with allegations of censorship, Otremba said, "Our intent was never to censor this person. It was to protect the child. If she wants to bring the pictures back to us to print, I would gladly print them...
...about a virus that killed most of the world in 1997, this all-star, megamovie chases time backward to a painful image. It's just what you'd expect from the director of that brilliant dark-side retro-futuristic vision, Brazil. But this film is no Brazil, says Corliss: "Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips." Ultimately, 12 Monkeys has the same message of all dour sci-fi satire, Corliss concludes. "I have seen the future, and it sucks...
...United Nations Security Council, intent on keeping the heat on the Bosnian Serbs, has unanimously passed a resolution demanding "immediate and unrestricted access" to areas where war crimes may have been committed. In other events, the brouhaha between President Clinton and Bob Dole over who, if anyone, should spend Christmas with the U.S. troops in Bosnia continued as Clinton announced Friday that, as much as he wanted to go, he would not. "I would go tomorrow, literally, tomorrow," the President said after emerging from a briefing at the Pentagon. "But I think it's very important that...