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...tiny creature lives on in court. The U.S. Attorney's office has charged Rancho Palos Verdes with criminal violation of the 1973 endangered- species law; the city could face up to $20,000 in fines. Mayor Mel Hughes believes the feds are just looking for a scapegoat to blame for the butterfly's disappearance. Says Hughes: "We just happened to be there holding the smoking park...
Aquino, to be sure, has sent mixed signals in the past. After first ordering that paramilitary groups be disbanded, she commissioned a study on how to integrate the forces into the army. Then, last week, Manila Mayor Mel Lopez announced that paramilitary units would be used to counter the recent spate of N.P.A. attacks in the capital. The move pleased the military, which is convinced that peace can be won only with the help of such groups. Some Aquino-appointed government officials, however, complain that the private armies often shoot first and ask questions later. It is a measure...
What a concept! Mad Max meets The Cosby Show. What a surprise! It works better than a fastidious mind might imagine. One reason is that Mel Gibson himself has been recruited to play Lethal Weapon's lethal weapon, Los Angeles Police Detective Martin Riggs. Sometimes, when Gibson is not wandering the post-atomic Outback, he has a tendency merely to stand around looking internationally handsome. But Riggs is Max's psychological cousin, a man whose wild-eyed courage is based on having witnessed so much cruelty that he no longer cares whether he lives or dies. Gibson knows just...
...Mel: $10 million? I may be a lot of things, but I'm not crazy...
...Mel: It's probably that Road Warrior thing--I think that did quite well, and not in the cinema either, but on cable--it's like indigestion, it keeps coming back...