I"m gonna tell Sidney Kidd very plainly and simply I"m a writer.I"m not a so[Expand All]
I"m gonna tell Sidney Kidd very plainly and simply I"m a writer.I"m not a society snoop.I"m gonna tell him just that...Let Kidd fire me! Start writin" short stories again - that"s what I should be doin" anyway.I"m gonna tell him just that.Connor, who considers himself a serious writer of short stories, is angered when Kidd assigns both of them to what he considers a degrading scandal sheet assignment.What a lame-o.Somebody really should just put him out of his miseryOff-camera, Ricky asked: "Want me to kill him for you?" She sat up and looked directly at him: "Yeah, would you?"Title Credits - A Posthumous Voice-Over:During he title credits, the camera floated over a suburban area with rows of similar houses on tree-lined streets - an aerial shot from a helicopter.It received criticism from both reviewers and fans alike for its somber tone, incoherent story with too many strands and unidentified locales and characters, and heavy emphasis on special effects to the detriment of the plot.An unmanned drone arrived to pick up Cross" blood work for analysis at the Sterisyn Morlanta lab.At the CIA"s Anti-Terrorism division in NYC, head director Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) announced an "imminent hreat" - what he termed "a national security emergency, priority level five.An image of Africans being brought to America and sold at auction in the South follows the title.The rise of the abolitionist movement of the 19th century demands the freeing of the slaves.Then, in pre-Civil War 1860, the film dramatically focuses on two families.The Northern Stoneman family (of Washington D.C., with a country home in Pennsylvania) is led by imposing parliamentary leader, the Hon.Austin Stoneman (Ralph Lewis), an abolitionist leader in the National House of representatives [in a role patterned after Pennsylvanian Senator Thaddeus Stevens, the Radical Republican leader and anti-slavery crusader].[Collapse Section]