The cops in Cop Land carry on like a bunch of goombahs. On the take from the Mob, they mimic the Mob. The fuzzy line dividing cops and crooks is the subject of many a strong police movie, but Cop Land goes a step further--it says there is no line...
And Justice for Fife New Times' online publication, phoenixnewtimes.com, is conducting a survey of views on Governor J. Fife Symington III's guilt or innocence. If the jury currently deliberating sees it anything like our Web-heads, the Fifester is a quiverin' bunny in a kennel of Rottweilers. (Note: The poll is...
When you talk about Phoenix to people from other states, they mention the heat, the mistreatment of prisoners in Joe Arpaio's gulag, and, maybe, the Suns. But it's rare to hear anyone mention that Phoenix has produced one of the greatest fighters in the history of boxing. Michael Carbajal's impact...
Not only is The Lost World: Jurassic Park the sequel to the most popular movie ever made, but it is also the first film Steven Spielberg has directed since 1993's Schindler's List. He has finally won his Oscar and achieved Great Artist status in Hollywood's pantheon of the Righteous, but...
I cracked a 40 of King Kobra, opened the curtains a bit, and took a seat. My trailer park's domestic-theater show had just begun, and my neighbor, Meth-Head Red, was in rare form. His lime-green La-Z-Boy, which usually sits in front of Red's TV, now lay on its side in...
Okay, metaphor buffs: An "albino alligator" is what the other alligators in a group send out as a sacrificial lamb. Members of a second group of 'gators attack the albino, and the first group violently finishes off its competition. Once this is explained in the movie Albino Alligator, you know...
Johnston, managing partner of the law firm of Johnston Maynard Grant and Parker, usually appears in venues classier than the cramped justice courtroom where he sought a restraining order against his ex-wife, Polly Parker-Johnston. Johnston claimed that Parker was stalking and threatening him. Parker denied Johnston's charges, and said he...
thursday april 17 Arizona Science Center: Check out the grand new facility at 600 East Washington--a construction that soars on wings of concrete--in its first full week of business. The programs "Arizona Skies," "PlanetQuest" and "Sun, Earth, Stars" are featured in the center's planetarium through Friday, May 30. The Oscar-nominated...
Filmmakers and audiences have been captivated by the idea of dinosaurs since the primeval days of the cinema. Not until Jurassic Park four years ago, however, have the movies made truly convincing dinosaurs. Which is not to say that film dinosaurs prior to Park and to its current sequel, The...
And the Winner Is . . . : In the movie business, it's the Oscar. In the recording business, it's the Grammy. And in the restaurant business, it's the James Beard Award. Right now, the firm of Deloitte & Touche is tabulating the results of the first round of balloting...
Das Boot, the 1981 German nautical spectacular, is now being rereleased as an extended three-and-a-half-hour director's cut. With an hour of new footage drawn from a six-hour German-TV version, the movie now plays more gracefully and clearly. If 60 more minutes of underwater rocking and rolling from depth charges and...
Goodbye, Deli: This week's search for locally genuine deli fare (see page 79) came up more or less empty. In the past, though, I've been able to console myself after other futile missions. That's because I always believed that, at least back in New York, the deli culture I grew...
Chris Collingwood remembers thinking it was the dumbest thing he'd ever heard. He and new pal Adam Schlesinger were looking for a band name to hang on the serious, introspective songs they'd penned together as serious, introspective college students. As they discussed various monikers, Schlesinger's mom overheard and had a...
In the summer of 1993, Motorola's Scottsdale-based Government Systems Technology Group treated its employees to an in-house video. Along with campy old Motorola commercials and marketplace updates, the reel profiled Doris Gray, an African-American senior contracts manager. Gray, Motorolans learned, is an art collector, philanthropist and businesswoman with a "dizzying...
Oscar Fuchslocher is still behind bars at a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center in Florence, but a federal court decision means he should be reunited with his wife in Phoenix as early as this week, according to Fuchslocher's lawyer, Patsy Kraeger. Fuchslocher is a Chilean citizen who has...
And the Winner Is . . . : In the movie business, it's the Oscar. In the record business, it's the Grammy. And in the restaurant business, it's the James Beard Award. Right now, the firm of Deloitte & Touche is tabulating the results of the first round of balloting...
Logan's Run? On the morning of Wednesday, March 26--just as the first copies of the March 27 issue of New Times were hitting the streets--Kim Boyden received a voice mail message from a representative with the City of Scottsdale's Victim Assistance Program. Boyden, whose photo was on the cover of...
Film actors are generally said to have good chemistry or no chemistry. But bad chemistry in movies does exist, and a sleep-inducer called Inventing the Abbotts is a case in point. In ascending order of age, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly and Joanna Going play Pamela, Eleanor and Alice Abbott, well-off...
thursday april 24 Hamlet, the Ballet: Center Dance Ensemble's Frances Smith Cohen conceived and choreographed this production, which incorporates jazz, modern and ballet styles by the dance troupe, live acting by the Courtyard Players, and an original rock score. Performances are scheduled on Thursday, April 24; Friday, April 25; and...
thursday april 10 The Descendents: This relic of punk's original wave had an inordinate impact on today's punk-pop scene. Basically the band All (the Descendents' descendant) augmented by original vocalist Milo Aukerman, the revivified act returned to doing what it does best--and did first--on its latest release, Everything Sucks: speed-saw...
No News Is Now News I've long been convinced that the Arizona Republic is blatantly biased and skews its coverage of the news to suit its own agenda a la the old Communist newspaper Pravda ("Scenes From a Slaughter," Amy Silverman, January 23). Now, with the demise of the Phoenix...
Sour Puss Have New Times funsters run out of politicos (past and present) to poke fun at? Can't find anything funny about Joe or Fife this week? No schoolteachers or cops to pick on? Must be a real slow time of year; that's got to be the reason Red Meat...
