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Four screenwriters, among them the great Bo Goldman ( Melvin and Howard , 1980; Shoot the Moon , 1982), labored on this moldy script, which features characters who ask questions that begin "Am I to understand that ...
For example, the character of Little Melvin the pimp in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights made me uncomfortable, and yet doubtless such characters existed at that time, and Orlando Jones does a lively job with the performance, and if I am watching a movie about a (Jewish) man who runs a numbers game, is it not possible one of his customers might be like this man?
Little Melvin is a flaming racist outrage, and I can't make any sense out of Trey (Justin Chambers), a glamorous, rich WASP who's fond of crashing cars and who takes such a liking to Van that he appears to be foisting his girlfriend--the blonde goddess--on the Jew.
To be sure, four names—Heather Gay, Brian O'Kill, Katherine Seed, and Janet Whitcut—appear on the Acknowledgements page, but so do names of a lot of other people (like Frank Kermode, Melvin Bragg, Clement Freud, Germaine Greer, Clive Jenkins, and Janet Street-Porter) whose direct connection with the book at hand would seem to be much more remote.
The secretary of defense at the time, Melvin Laird, is quoted as having "no specific recollection" of sarin being used, but "I do not dispute what Adm.