21.   After all, nowhere in a Disney movie does the star attraction get hurt in the opening scene.

22.   Allen noted the complex tangle of relationships that are economically sketched out, one by one, in the opening scenes.

23.   Bridget Gregory, played by Linda Fiorentino, establishes herself in the opening scenes of the film as hard, cold and ruthless.

24.   But it had all the drama of the opening scene of a post-cold-war thriller.

25.   But that opening scene in the desert takes place inside the mind of a child.

26.   Chong plays a reporter who survives a massacre in the opening scenes, then tells her story on videotape.

27.   Conflict in the opening scene has grabbed this audience.

28.   Craig Ferguson, who plays Mr. Wick, forgot his lines in the opening scene and quickly executed an about-face through his office door, cursing under his breath.

29.   Directed with a fine feeling for subliminal menace by Lisa Peterson, the opening scenes of this somber, gutsy comedy are as effective as anything Margulies has written.

30.   Despite the gravity of the event, its opening scene was a bit disorganized, Bates recalled.