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Having had his fill of being on the news, Christopher Darden is taking his rhetorical skills to series TV. O.J.'s prosecutor will play a preacher in an episode of CBS's inspirational series Touched by an Angel, one of Darden's favorite shows. That should take the sting out of being bumped as a speaker at the G.O.P. convention...
...Disney's Magic Kingdom, the convention floor today is a construct, a shell, a dim, burnished reflection of what was once reality. They may even call the roll of the states to stir old memories of exciting summer nights from long ago, much as the first notes of Earth Angel or In the Still of the Night can set middle-aged hearts beating faster...
...decades; two years ago, seven Chinese team members were surprise-tested in Japan and found positive for the same drug--dehydrotestosterone--just days after winning 12 out of 16 gold medals at the world championships in Rome. In the past decade, several U.S. swimmers have tested positive, including Angel Martino, who won two individual bronzes and two relay golds last week, after having been kicked off the 1988 Olympic team. "Drug use is epidemic," says Charles Yesalis, a Penn State professor of health policy and a critic of Olympic drug testing. "There's always doubt lingering in the background...
What also makes this production of "Phantom" particularly delightful is the constant attention to details it demands. During Christine and Meg's haunting duo "Angel of Music," the ghostly ballet dancers practicing in the background delicately foreshadow the dramatic turn the play is about to take. The overjoyed expression radiating from Christine's face throughout her first performance number which, ironically enough, is a depressing song of lost love entitled "Think of Me," only added to the show's appeal...
...because the Pan Am phone lines were busy all day, and the only news we were getting was from TV. By the time I was in the motel it was late at night, and I had learned the truth. My charming, vibrant daughter, my Theo who sang like an angel and had a golden future, was dead at age 20. Had a gun been handy I might very well have shot myself. Instead there was nothing to do but cry and scream and crawl along the floor...