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...defendant might be paranoid, he was competent to stand trial. The judgment is debatable. Says Kuby: ``They should have found him incompetent and packed him off to a mental institution.'' But it was in keeping with current judicial practice--and with the belief of many Americans that an asylum is too good for the likes of Ferguson or, say, Jeffrey Dahmer...
...right, but she loves rock 'n' roll, hangs out at music clubs in Hollywood and even has a pop-star boyfriend -- Dave Pirner, leader of the alternative band Soul Asylum. Surely they have to be going to hell on a Harley. Yet to hear Ryder, the two are more George and Gracie than Sid and Nancy. He hangs out on the set when she's filming, she accompanies him on tour, and there are no stories of either being the typical girlfriend or boyfriend nightmare. When relaxing, they often stay home and watch movies (their latest: the British TV series...
...life. Born in Normandy in 1594 (his father was a military officer, his mother an alderman's daughter), he was educated, probably by Jesuits, in Paris, and turned to painting before he was 20. A chance encounter with Giambattista Marino, the floridly precious Neapolitan poet who had taken political asylum at the Paris court of Marie de Medicis, led to introductions in Rome, and he went there in 1624. From then until his death in 1665, Poussin returned to France only once, for a brief two years (1640-42), during which Louis XIII tried to persuade France's top cultural...
...flight to their new home in Panama. They were accompanied by his chief of staff, Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, who had once declared that he would rather commit suicide than face a life in exile. A second plane delivered 23 close relatives and friends to asylum in Miami. By the following morning, the Cedras family was safely ensconced in a second-rate Panama City hotel...
...rightful emphasis on the power-mad side of Winchell's persona, Gabler's biography validates Burt Lancaster's chilling portrayal of gossipmonger J.J. Hunsecker in the 1957 film The Sweet Smell of Success. (In real life, Winchell, in cinema noir fashion, had his daughter Walda carted off to an asylum in a straitjacket in paternal rage against an unsuitable marriage.). The same haunting sense of hubris at the Stork Club animates Michael Herr's artful 1990 rendition of the columnist's life, Walter Winchell: A Novel...