| Show ' : C6— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday October 17 2003 SHERMANS LAGOON $' W Appmusnm RgrCfXNCe 'If fri-' ' ' ©asfi ixnseOOeifiiti WPIMfTNttPro MPWATSWrJV&A FOOTBALL I ' ! V WSi ' Oov&s J rouRwe roux sam VniJuer 1 mwm AcumnuNei uyiJt" ‘JODCy’ IWLPotnL r l By David Germain AP Movie Writer vi ' - If you’re going to tell a lurid preposterous tale about hijacking the verdict in a major corporate lawsuit “Runaway Jury” is the way to doit CATHY 00“)LUWR DO HOU WANT ' 1HEVOO MINUTES? MO'FOOO- "ANSTIItt - I MNT 7 Need an unctuously corrupt jury consultant for the defense that audiences can love to hate? Give the part to Gene Hackman Want to impart some charisma and moral dimension to your blandly upright lawyer for die plaintiff? Call in Dustin Hoffman Got a pair of schemwho need to keep viewers ing poised between affection and aversion virile their shadowy motives unfold? Try John Cusack and Rachel Weisz NS MINUTES TOE HXftH HASTED THE TfMMrTDfttURE this OUT! otmM& minutes’? MINUTES PLAN NHMMfr ' MINUTES’! jury-rigge- rs ttffERENT PLW LET ME BE6M UmL Movie review BEETLE BAILEY : g'HAGAR THE HORRIBLE ' Casting is more than half the battle with from John “Runaway Jury’’ adapted Grisham’s courtroom thriller Director Gary Fleder’s brisk assured pacing might have gone for naught had he been stuck spinning this outlandish story without such an accomplished and earnest cast to make events feel if not believable at least foigivably plausible in the name of tawdry entertainment Necessarily the movie departs from a key element of the novel supplanting a liability case against Big Tobacco over a smoker’s death with a lawsuit against a gun manufacturer in a shooting death during an office rampage Grisham’s tobacco angle seemed prescient when the book came out in 1996 but a rash of verdicts against cigarette companies since then would have outdated the movie if it stuck with that premise :: 'The gun case seems more farfetched though last fall a jury did find a gun distributor liable : to a small degree in the case of a teacher ') y gunned down by a student The movie also transplants die story from Mississippi to New Orleans whose cloistered back alleys are nicely captured in Robert Elswit’s opaque cinematography Jury selection is about to begin in a widow’s case against die ' company that made die assault weapon that V killed her husband Master jury fixer Rankin Fitch (Hackman) blows into town with a team of profilers and thugs armed with surveillance equipment dossiers aid an utter lack of moral- -' ity as they set about choosing then manipulating jurors in favor of die gun maker Representing the widow is honest local boy Wendall Rohr (Hoffman) who responds to the defense’s hired guns by reluctandy taking on his own jury consultant (Jeremy Piven) v AP Photo Juiy consultant Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) command center created to oversees a high-tec- h obtain sensitive information on jurors on an explosive trial in “Runaway Jury’ ' ' - UEUMc A ( LUKE 17:32 REMEMBER L REMEMBER who? 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Beth eagerly awaits Rob's reaction to his electric deodorant applicator A So with ai sigh Moroni signed his name to the ' roster right copper hair stuck out from ‘Ah fine me lads Now up in the wagon t’der the cap the sergeant wme and several old with ye” the sergeant rumbled with a sly scao crossed their way across his face in his eye “Take a seat wi’ the other “Come now me laid’’ the sergeant said to gleam ' boyos” Moroni in a thick Irish brogue ‘Tut yer name moaned Moroni “Charley what Sitting On the list right next ‘ere to yer brother’s” have you got us into now?’ Moroni’s heart sank How was he going to “Hey brother this is going to be great fun get his brother back to Utah now? Closing his just trust me” Charley said with a huge grin eyes he tried to say a quiet prayer only to feel While Charley kept rattling on about how a tug on his arm Opening his eyes he saw great1 it was going to be with both of them in Charley standing next to him “Come on the same company and what a fine regiment Moroni sign up with me We’ll whip the rebs they were joining Moroni kept drinking about just you and me” a way to get them both out of the Army Losing his patience Moroni snapped out at Moroni wondered if What would his brother “We have got to get out of here we someone were tohappen find out that they were Mordon’t belong here and we don’t need to get mons? Some of the hatred toward Mormons involved in this mess” had died down but time was still plenty of the “Well brother” Charley said back “I’ve old crowd around enough to make it hard for already signed up Now are you coming with the both of them So staring sadly out at the me or are you going to stay behind?” With that crowd Moroni decided to just try and make the Charley started pulling Moroni toward the best of a rotten situation table The crowd was getting into it now Moroni’s stomach was starting to growl with cheering the brothers on Stepping up to the hunger mid the sun was getting low in the sky table Moroni felt as if he had no control over when the major announced that he was going his actions to take these fine brave young men out to the Hie Irish sergeant shoved a stub of a pencil at Moroni and said “‘Ere ye go laddie put yer Army encampment name ‘ere and we’ll be takin’ good care o’ ye” At his elbow Charley urged him on “Come on brother do it and we'll be in the same Sea tomorrow’s Herald Journal for the next installment By Phillip Alder Coming soon: the 2004 twlrvcyllnder Ot sen “ novel by David J Hawkes 'v if ——— "r - V- - Shoshone Trail s ft- - uj- Enter jura: No 9 Nick Easter (Cusack) seemingly a slacker who would rather be anywhere than doing his civic duty in court But when Nick’s shady girlfriend Mariee (Weisz) passes a picture of the jury to die opposing attorneys with die caption “Jury for sale” Nick’s real motive becomes clear Delivering die verdict to die highest bidder u The extremes to which Rankin’s gang goes to neutralize Nick and Mariee’s scheme makes for a guilty pleasure of a movie It’s ludicrous " action howling for a mistrial but your inner adjudicator likely will overrule any objections ami just go with it on die strength of the hearty performances Cackling with delicious contempt Hackman oozes his way through every scene Hoffman musters a credible crisis of conscience while Cusack and Weisz are delightful poker faces as they let their con gradually play out The attention to casting extends to secondary roles and bit players: Bruce McGill makes for an imperiously hlockheaded judge and Bruce v Davison brings subtle professional resentment as die defense ritomey whose strings Rankin £ pulls Bringing credibility to almost inconse-:5- r quential parts as jurors are Luis Guzman Nora : Dunn and Jennifer BeaU' v j' ' “Runaway Jury” a 20th Century Fox release is rated PG-1-3 TWo and a half stars out of four i South’s bidding was optimistic After starting with two clubs strong artificial and forcing he revealed his suit on the second round and received support Then four spades is enough After South control-bid- s (cue-bid- s) four d clubs to show con first-roun- trol in that suit and slam intersingleton king — as in the est and North returns the comdiagram CNEA2003 pliment with four hearts North South should settle for four A Q 6 5 8 spades If North has powerful ¥ A will bid he higher trumps a s 4 a the must play Gearly you 9 7 4 3 spade suit without loss which West East requires finding East with the A 9 a 7 K king Since you are in the ¥ Q 10 S 5 3 ¥ J976 A 7 3 10 9 6 dummy for the last time call A a a for the spade queen This 10 6 5 works whenever East has the South A J 10 4 S singleton doubleton or triple¥ K ton king Starting with a low KQJ spade loses in the last case A K Q J However when the spade 10 is metamorphosed into the Dealer South Vulnerable: seven the correct play changes Against best defense you can succeed only when East has the singleton or doubleton king Now you should lead a low spade from the Opening lead: ¥ 5 dummy just in case East has a East-We- st 4 ' vr |
