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...Social Security and Medicare benefits. Virginia Richter said she'd back Bilbray on Medicare, "but it should be one of the last avenues" to balance the budget. "If everything else is reduced, yes, we'd go along," she said. But first slash corporate subsidies and aid to Israel. Said Thelma Steffen: "I say take care of Americans first, then foreigners...
...live-action movie introduces a heroine who could erase bunny bimbo, Jessica Rabbit, with one irreverent stomp of her oversized MC boot. Tank Girl could be the product of a rather revolting orgy involving Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Madonna, and Courtney Love. She's the baby that could be born if Thelma impregnated Louise with a turkey baster. But at the bottom of her cliff, this girl's driving off in her tank, swigging from a Forty and laughing out loud...
Along with this duo, Hitchcock has assembled notables such as the famous character actress Thelma Ritter as Stella, the savvy insurance nurse who tries to set Jeffries' mind straight about Lisa, and Raymond Burr as the sinister murder suspect, Mr. Lars Thorwald. Stella quips after she removes the thermometer from Jeffries' mouth, "You've got a hormone deficiency...Those bathing beauties you've been watching ["Miss Torso," the ballet dancer across the courtyard who flits around in her brassiere and panties] haven't raised your temperature in a month," When Jeffries continues to debate with her about marrying Lisa, Stella...
With a cast that features Susan Sarandon ("Bull Durham," "Thelma and Louise") and Tommy Lee Jones '69 ("The Fugitive"), along with a terrific debut performance from 10-year-old Tennessee street kid Brad Renfro, it would seem that Schumacher couldn't go wrong. Nevertheless, the director's painfully close adherence to the Grisham script fails to inspire...
...needs an attorney to take on the feds, and Schumacher finally concedes to bring in Sarandon as the reformed-alcoholic/renegade lawyer, Reggie Love. In her strong portrayal, Sarandon turns a moderately interesting part into "The Client"'s highlight performance, occasional showing the impressive depth she captured in "Thelma and Louise." Had Schumacher fully exploited Sarandon's hard-ball verbal confrontations, "The Client" might have succeed ed as a fast-paced courtroom drama; unfortunately, Schumacher fails to commit to the dynamic court plot, preferring to interstice the Sway family drama with a few dismally unoriginal mob scenes...