Word: lawman
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Halfway through the film, evil rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) eludes the practiced clutches of lawman Virgil Cole (Ed Harris). "I told you you'd never hang me," Bragg boasts, and Virgil replies, more quietly, "Never ain't here...
...time it takes to utter two words - "suspended sentence" - Israel's Attorney General Menahem Mazuz went from being the country's most respected lawman to a reviled and misunderstood figure. For months, Mazuz, a workaholic of Old Testament rigor, had gathered testimony alleging that Israel's President Moshe Katsav was a serial sex offender. Now Mazuz is under fire for seeking a plea bargain for Israel's ceremonial head of state instead of attempting to prosecute him for allegedly committing rape. On June 30, 20,000 people gathered in a Tel Aviv square to demand the resignation of Mazuz, with...
...total he-man package. He's also a magnet for all comers. Gangsters and glamorous women fall at Mike's feet, from the impact of his blows or the surly machismo of his swagger. Of course there's a darker view of this unchecked brutality, this out-lawman with a feudal ethical code. That's that Hammer is a bully with a grudge - a one-man fascist state, and I don't mean Italy...
John Wayne comes on at the start of the series' first episode (of an epochal 635) to say that this will be a different kind of western. And James Arness's Marshal Dillon was a different kind of lawman--like the Duke after anger management. Gunsmoke led the TV stampede of "adult westerns." Dillon might be the sage of the sagebrush, musing on man's weakness for violence, but since every show begins with his gunning down a bad guy, we know that this is the same old (Testament) stuff, with a little sweet pacifist palaver mixed...
...been a Murderer (Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song) and a relentless lawman (Marshall Sam Gerard in The Fugitive). He married Loretta Lynn (Coal Miner's Daughter), saved the world from aliens (Men in Black). But the coolest thing Tommy Lee Jones does is ... nothing. Nothing, anyway, that Stanislavski could detect. (He never took an acting class. Didn't matter. Within weeks of graduating from Harvard, he landed a role in a Broadway play.) Jones just puts that rugged, West Texas face on the screen and observes the world with a rattlesnake's poise. He does watching a whole...