it s not fair, alex. yeah. there s nothing you can do about it, jen. my advice to you is that you just enjoy being a child for as long as you can. i know i did. it s the best two weeks of my life. [ laughter ] fox: alex is a little bill buckley. he the wall street journal is his bible. [ laughs ] he has a tie to go with his pajamas. he s very conservative and a very intense 17-year-old. now the first thing your teacher s gonna ask is what you did over the summer. now, a lot of kids are gonna say, i went to the zoo. or i went to the beach. or i went to a baseball game. what are you gonna say? i watched the iran contra hearings. [ laughter ] peterson: if mom and dad thought this generation was going to the dogs, think again. this is the generation that has discovered hard work and success. troy: american culture is changing in the 80s. and in terms of television, there s a whole notion of demographic segmentation. bochco: networks were beginning to not be afraid
that s focused more on the a critique of the 60s. michael j. fox as alex keaton really became the center of the show. and writers were smart enough to see that they had something special, and they wrote to that. it s not fair, alex. yeah. there s nothing you can do about it, jen. my advice to you is that you just enjoy being a child for as long as you can. i know i did. it s the best two weeks of my life. alex is a little bill buckley. he the wall street journal is his bible. he has a tie to go with his pajamas. he s very conservative and a very intense 17-year-old. now the first thing your teacher s gonna ask is what you did over the summer. now, a lot of kids are gonna say, i went to the zoo, or, i went to the beach, or, i went to a baseball game. what are you gonna say? i watched the iran contra hearings. if mom and dad thought this generation was going to the
British filmmaker Alex Cox made his name with Sid and Nancy and cult-fave Repo Man. However, his epic story of greed, Latin American politics and U.S. chicanery, Walker (1987) set in Nicaragua in the mid-1800s should have been his pinnacle. With a soundtrack by Joe Strummer, bravura performances by Ed Harris and Peter Boyle, and timeless theme of American interventionism, Walker seemed ‘can’t-miss’. Uh, not so fast. Released in the middle of the Iran-Contra Hearings to mostly negative reviews, the studio turned its back on the film and took a major loss. Criterion has now come to the rescue with a restored reissue of Walker. PKM’s David Stewart caught up with Alex Cox to discuss Walker and other cinematic topics.
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stonewalling the committee, ye there was still able to tell a very compelling story. the justice department wil have additional tools they can use to bring to bear to make them talk. i think the committee likely was very reluctant to immunize any of these witnesses they didn t immunized any of them i think that s the lesson we learned during the iran contra hearings, when oliver nort received immunity, and his later prosecution wa overturned because the prosecutors were unable to say that they had untainted by anything that it come out of those very public hearings i think rather than get th testimony, now they preserve the ability for the justic department to decide who t prosecute who d immunized down the road they took what they can get. and they got a lot but with those tools available to them, the justice departmen now can selectively gran immunity to compel witnesses when you give someone immunity they lose their fifth amendmen right to testify against