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Fire? Not so much.


In Her Line of Fire

* Starring Mariel Hemingway Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actress. Biography
Early life
Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, daughter of Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) and Jack Hemingway, a writer.
, David Keith, and Jill Bennett Jill Bennett may refer to either:
  • Jill Bennett, British actress
  • Jill Bennett, American actress
 

* Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith * Regent Films/Here TV

Mariel Hemingway has played a Secret Service agent twice and a lesbian three times. In Her Line of Fire, the new original film premiering April 21 on Here TV and opening simultaneously in theaters, aims to use all that experience. As, yes, a lesbian Secret Service agent stranded when Air Force Two crashes near a tropical island, Hemingway shoots, karate-chops, and blows up bad guys in order to defend her boss, the vice president, against a Sandinista-style militia militia (məlĭsh`ə), military organization composed of citizens enrolled and trained for service in times of national emergency. Its ranks may be filled either by enlistment or conscription. . But what's really worrying her is that cocky cock·y  
adj. cock·i·er, cock·i·est
Overly self-assertive or self-confident.



cocki·ly adv.
 young lesbian reporter type played by Jill Bennett (a real-life lesbian hottie who's one of Here's authentic assets). It could be a great setup. But director Brian Trenchard-Smith shows no aptitude for either staging action or kindling kindling (kinˑ·dling),
n change in brain function wherein repeated chemical or electrical stimuli induce seizures.


kindling

1. parturition in the doe rabbit.
 lesbian passion, and in an action movie-slash-lesbian love story, that's pretty much the ball game. In Her Line of Fire is a guilty pleasure, sort of. But Mariel deserves better, and so do we.
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Title Annotation:"In Her Line of Fire"
Author:Stockwell, Anne
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief article
Date:Apr 11, 2006
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