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They have also shifted the balance of the narrative. The central figure is no longer the male victim of a plot to make him take the rap for several murders. In the role of this unlucky real estate agent, Jean-Louis Trintignant must content himself with moping about and rather churlishly criticizing the brisk, brave and far-darting efforts of Barbara, his secretary, to clear his name. It is a disciplined, selfless performance...
Much of the criticism of press bias comes from the organized and vocal right, but Fritz Mondale has grounds for complaint too. The press rap against him is that he is not exciting enough. At the end of the year, Columnist David Broder of the Washington Post, reviewing some of his own errors and misjudgments, concluded, "But no one, I hope, will deny me my one moment of brilliance." As long ago as January 1983, "I wrote, 'Mondale has the capacity to make the Democratic marathon dull.' Boy, did he ever!" Broder is a fair-minded reporter...
Hattie is tall, thin, gorgeous, Waspy, a Bloomingdale's commercial for poise. Her boyfriend is a married marketing exec who calls her "Beauty"; her mother is a trail-blazing career woman (Jo Henderson) who thinks Jean Harris got a bum rap. Janie is an underemployed writer, short, sad-eyed and Jewish, with an attitude problem ("Know what I resent? Just about everything!") and a rather complacent identity crisis ("I very badly want to be someone else without going to the trouble of changing myself). Her boyfriend Marty (Chip Zien) is a kidney specialist who looks like a Muppet rabbi...
...hailstorm of bullets. It is this ferocity, plus the complementary fusillade of four-letter language (the commonest four-letter obscenity is, by conservative count, uttered 181 times), that originally won Scarface the poisonous X rating from the Motion Picture Association's ratings board. It was a bum rap and was overruled on appeal. Scarface is no fouler of mouth than Richard Pryor on a good day, and less graphic than the last three dozen splatter movies. It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist...
...murdered. So, according to proponents of this theory, Tippit was assigned to kill Oswald after Oswald had incriminated himself, but that Oswald had learned of it and had killed Tippit. Jack Ruby was a police buff who was forever hanging around police headquarters, partly because of a very long rap sheet and a desire to cultivate as many law enforcement friends as possible. Nothing concrete ties Ruby and Tippit together, nor does anything substantially link Oswald to either...