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...Lorna" launched Meyer into a second, artistically abundant mid-'60s phase: black-and-white backwoods melodramas. The films' plot variations on cupidity and stupidity were nearly as inspired as their titles. "Mudhoney"! (A familiarly lurid tale of the drifter, the town bully and the yearning babe, with a supporting role for Maitland.) "Motorpsycho"! (A low-budget "Wild One" - the motorcycle crazies ride mopeds - with many worthy extras: a nice debut turn by Alex Rocco as a man whose wife the gang raped; a cameo by Meyer as the sexist sheriff who snaps, as regards Rocco's wife, "Nothin' happened...
...RABBIT'S PLOT REVOLVES AROUND POPE JOHN PAUL II. ARE YOU A CATHOLIC...
...success of Fatal Attraction and The Accused, which she produced with Stanley Jaffe. "She was one of the first people [since the Joan Crawford era] to make movies that were successful with female protagonists or antagonists," says Pascal, "movies where a woman was a key character and moved the plot forward...
...enough to make the most fervent civil libertarian come out in favor of secret military tribunals. The French national was arrested in August 2001 after arousing suspicion at a Minnesota flight school and was indicted last December as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator, though his precise role in the plot has never been clear. Many Americans hoped his trial would prove that even in wartime, U.S. courts could do their job. But the scales of justice tip wildly when a defendant keeps turning his own proceedings upside down...
...that may push Brinkema to reconsider his competency, a move his former lawyers urge. If she doesn't, says lawyer Edward MacMahon, "this case is heading to Ringling Bros." After Moussaoui boasted that he might open up about the plot--"I know which group, who participated, when it was decided"--some U.S. officials hinted that they might want to make a deal. But others doubted that he could be trusted. Says one: "I've never heard anybody say anything except 'He's off his bean...