Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Leading the resistance to the American invasion has been France and its Culture Minister, Jack Lang, a longtime Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Jose M. Ferrer III, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White...
...Rick figure this time is Jack Weil (Robert Redford), a professional poker player aware that people tend to throw caution (and money) to the winds when their way of life is about to be radically altered. The Ilsa stand-in is Bobby Duran (Lena Olin), who lures Jack into doing a little light smuggling for her and then for the longest time resists being lured into an affair with him. Her reasons are sound: she is grief-stricken when led to believe that her husband (Raul Julia) has been murdered by the Batista regime, and she is in shock after...
...Redford's fault. The years have weathered him handsomely, and he contrives to lose his famous cool with insinuating subtlety. The problem lies with Olin, who never loses enough of her cool, and with Pollack and the writers. Whatever else is going on in their lives, Jack and Bobby need to come to a world-well-lost moment, a rocking, rolling acknowledgment of suppressed desires. That does not happen. We get shadows and tenderness instead. Then the script sends her up- country to join the rebels and sends Jake after her. Away from the heat and claustrophobia of Havana...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Jose M. Ferrer III, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White...