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On the edge of MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles, a young woman runs across the traffic, after dark, dressed in a sawn-off Santa suit trimmed with tufts of fur. Her other accessories include festive red panty hose and a loaded gun. Her name is Harmony Faith Lane, and if she were one of my relatives I would look forward to Christmas a whole lot more. Sadly, she is a fictional being, lodged in the world according to Shane Black--a livid, pulpish environment where failure to possess a gun is, if not a criminal offense, at least a crime against style. Black is a man of parts. "As an actor," according to Warner Bros. publicists, he was "the first to be eviscerated by the ...