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...into a bed covered with Laura's pictures. An amateur philosopher, Leonad pontificates. "Look, sex has nothing to do with love: you can wash off sex," but Charles asks only to take Laura's picture with her clothes on, Leonard gets Charles a hooker, and the high school photo addict asks only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Affair to Poor | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

Stage-managing the zoo-parade is a strung-out addict named Dopey (Gary Sinise), who looks and acts like a guerrilla refugee from the Twilight Zone. Sinise is one of the founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Strutting in the Lower Depths | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...edge of South Boston, just over the channel from South Station. Though many bands that would play there go to the Cape in the summer, The Channel still offers some big name bands close-up. Popular reggae band Steel Pulse plays there Tuesday, New York poet-punk-heroin addict Jim Carroll on Thursday, Ministry on June 30, poppy ska band Bad Manners July 14, and the inevitable milking of the success of rock parody. This is Spinal Tap. The band will-play. The Channel July 7, and watching the audience may be more interesting than watching the show. One fears...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Lots Of Sweet, Lots of Tunes | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

...Central America. The Post is often arrogant, and is so inclined to mistrust anyone who challenges a reporter's accuracy that for months its editors ignored widespread doubts about the authenticity of Feature Writer Janet Cooke's profile of "Jimmy," a purported eight-year-old heroin addict; two days after the article was awarded a 1981 Pulitzer Prize, the Post belatedly announced that it was a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Ten Best U.S. Dailies | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

Just three years ago this month, the Washington Post had to admit that its Pulitzer prize-winning story by Janet Cooke about an eight-year-old heroin addict was a hoax. The scandal shocked editors of the Wall Street Journal, which put a squad of reporters onto the story and emerged with a tough front-page report ("Lessons for All Journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Washing Dirty Linen in Public | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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