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...Curtis Osborne, a small-time cocaine dealer and addict, killed two people in a dispute over $400. His crime revulsed the town of Griffin, Georgia, one measure of which was the bigoted remark a local inmate reported hearing at the jail: "That little nigger deserves the chair...
...oddball cast of humans supporting Big Brown makes the horse's rise more Guys and Dolls than Kentucky blue blood. They're fast-talking New Yorkers. Besides Dutrow, an ex-addict who was once so down and out that he lived in a racetrack barn, take Michael Iavarone, 37, Big Brown's majority owner. An ex--Wall Street banker and Long Island native who left the rat race for horse-racing, Iavarone and his partners arranged to buy control of Big Brown for $2.5 million in September, after watching him race once--once--on TV. "We put our balls...
...Already two-time Palme d'Or winners for Rosetta in 1999 and L'Enfant in 2005, the Belgian brothers are back with another underclass minimalist melodrama, this time set in the polyglot city of Liege. An Albanian girl (Arta Dobroshi) is in an arranged marriage with a drug addict to get her ID; the scheme of the criminals who control her is to kill off the junkie so Lorna can be sold into marriage with a rich Russian who also needs an ID. The film is an improvement on the formulaic L'Enfantand boasts an impressively naturalistic performance by Dobroshi...
...hidden for so long. Because as I talk about in the book I was sexually assaulted at the age of 13 by a male next-door neighbor and that incident traumatized me. I came from a dysfunctional family where my mother was a prostitute, she was a heroin addict and then my mother became infected with the HIV virus and she passed it to my baby brother and they both died from the AIDS virus. I had another brother who was also sexually assaulted when he was in a group home and he was infected with the AIDS virus...
...Carrie Bradshaw Syndrome,” rather, describes an epidemic of members of my generation to dramatize the goings-on in their lives more than is necessary. Carrie Bradshaw, protagonist of the genius HBO show Sex and the City, was a relationship columnist and shoe addict who famously posed a question in each episode—ostensibly the topic of her current column. “I couldn’t help but wonder...” she’d say, “do we need distance to get close...