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...Orleans, the Ochsner Foundation Hospital has counted 41 injuries from barroom broncos since Aug. 1. Most victims come in with bruises, sprains and lacerations; one ex-rodeo rider broke his thumb. Faced with an epidemic, the Ochsner staff is compiling data to alert other doctors to "urban cowboy syndrome...
...under way. One is a script co-written with writer/actor Paul Hampton called Why Is the Dream So Much Sweeter Than the Taste? "It's about a used car dealer in Southern California," he says, by way of explanation. Waits has already appeared on screen, as the inebriated, slovenly barroom pianist Mumbles in Sylvester Stallone's Paradise Alley (unfortunately much of Waits portrayal ended up on the cutting room floor). And, like a lot of pop music figures nowadays, Waits is open to starring in another venture for the silver screen, though he disdains being typecast. "The thing is, once...
...local police force features a sentimental cop, name of 'Ankles,' because he keeps the peace by kicking transgressors in the ankles with his size 14's. This is, after all, what you'd expect; Hamill is, as they say at Aqueduct, out of Breslin by brother Pete Hamill, the barroom columnist for a "newspaper" called the New York Post...
Marrero admitted hitting McDuffie, but contended that he had done so only because the black man grabbed for the policeman's gun. Defense Attorney Edward Carhart told the jury that the attack on McDuffie was like a "barroom brawl," but he argued that it was impossible to determine who had delivered the fatal blow. He also stressed inconsistencies in the testimony of the state's police witnesses...
...decay is creeping in on Cambridgeport from the other direction as well, Caragianes says. Driving into Central Square, he points to barroom after barroom. "There's an oversaturation of gin mills and fast food places," he says...