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'Money Train' worst kind of Hollywood excess'
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[Quinn evicted
bility for the assassination of
"Money Train": I've been conI; NEW YORK (AP) - Anthony John F. Kennedy.
The criticism came in a state- sidering a few words to
'Quinn has been tossed out of two
• New York apartments. But he ment issued Monday by the describe a movie like this, but
i'still has the villa in Italy and the Richard Nixon Library and Bir- we can't print them. So let's try
thplace in Yorba Linda.
estate in Rhode Island.
one that's kosher:
Stone denied any malicious in; A judge last week told the
'"Zorba the Greek" star's estrang- tent, saying his purpose "was to Loathsome.
It's bad enough when we get
!ed wife, Iblanda, that she could attempt a fuller understanding of
Iconnect the'two apartments and the life and career of Richard another godawful derivative
Nixon — the good and the bad, buddy-cop movie whose produc;have
sole occupancy.
1
Quinn, 80, who recently an- the triumphs and the tragedies tion cost the life of a stuntper•nounced that his 34-year-old and the legacy he left his nation son.
!lover and former secretary, and the world."
Well, how about a godawful
|Kathy Benvin, is pregnant with
derivative buddy-cop movie
Album
signing
goes
awry
•their second child, left his 61linked to the death of an inno!year-old wife almost three years
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) cent bystander? And not just
'ago after more than 30 years of — A record-store appearance by
[marriage.
Jamie Walters of "Beverly Hills any death, but murder.
' The actor stays with Benvin 90210" turned chaotic when
Many of us have heard or
Iwhen he is in New York. But he hundreds of screaming girls
read
of the recent tragedy iniuses one of the two 32nd-floor began shoving their way toward
volving Brooklyn subway token
;apartments to store some of his the teen idol.
'belongings. The judge gave him The store's five security guards clerk Harry Kaufman, who died
SO days to remove his stuff.
were overwhelmed, and police after two men caused an explor Quinn also owns a villa and
had to intervene Monday to stop sion in his booth by igniting
Recently bought a $1.5 million the event in Goteborg. A 12- lighter fluid they'd squirted
;estate in Bristol, R.I., where he year-old girl was taken to a hos- into it.
ipaints and sculpts.
pital with breathing problems.
"He's really not upset about
It's been determined that
The TV actor was taken out of
'this," said Quinn's lawyer, Barry the store through a culvert, the Kaufman's assailants were
'Slotnick.
Expressen newspaper reported. copying a scene from this
He had been signing his debut movie, in which, ironically, the
Nixon family unhappy
album, which features the hit clerk escapes virtually
: LOS ANGELES (AP) - Looks single "Hold On."
unharmed.
.like Oliver Stone is on the Nixon
Worse, "Money Train" will
'.family's enemies list.
Gatlin oversees
; President Nixon's daughters,
probably
end up doing better
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) 'Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Larry
box
office
than it would have
Gatlin won't be home for
!Eisenhowefr~smd—Stefte's new Christmas.
He'll
be
entertaining
[movie, " N i x o n , " c o n t a i n s U.S. troops involved in the
'cooked-up scenes "thai are Balkan peacekeeping effort in
'calculated solely and maliciously H u n g a r y , C r o a t i a a n d
• to defame and degrade President Macedonia.
land Mrs. Nixon's memories in
"If they're willing to go, so am
jthe mind of the American
I," the country music star said.
'public."
', The family was particularly
J1incensed that Stone seemed to
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"Money Train's" idea of
charm is casting Wesley Snipes
and Woody Harrelson — who
normally are NOT charmless
actors — as foster brothers and
New York Transit cops who do
little more than berate each
other.
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without this tragedy it caused.
It stands to reason given the
track record of rubberneckers
who otherwise may have ignored it.
And it's never interesting to
watch, whether done seriously
or feigned. An illustration of
tt^ejajter is when they foil attempted muggers by suddenly
pulling guns on each other and
arguing about who leaves more
hair in the sink or whatever.
And ignoring it is what they,
and everyone else, should be
doing. For what is this but the
continuation of Hollywood's
tedious wallowing in brainless
macho posturing, at this point
as dull to review as it is to
Very funny. The scene is so
absurdly overplayed that the
viewer is left squirming with
embarrassment, and ultimately
left hoping no one they know
finds out they've even seen the
thing.
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