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...MOMENT WAS MORE MARX BROTHERS THAN classic Mafia. Wrapped in a bath towel at his wooded redoubt near Mount Olive, New Jersey, fugitive Anthony Salvatore Casso, 52, one of the nation's most feared Mafia leaders, surrendered -- hands up high, dripping wet -- to an FBI SWAT team. Cracked one agent: "He didn't have his gun in the shower like in the spaghetti westerns." Federal agents say that Casso, a Lucchese family underboss street-named "Gaspipe" (possibly because of his blowtorch safecracking skills), was hated within the crime family because of his penchant for ordering hits simply because a fellow...
...With clean water in such short supply in the stifling climate, everyone yearns for a chance to freshen up. According to an NBC cameraman who just returned from the front, war-weary journalists are bartering the diapers, which when moistened, provide a great rubdown, almost as good as a bath. Says he: "And they leave you smelling baby-powder fresh...
...starting to get increasingly frustrated," said Councillor Edward N. Cyr. "My daughter said three weeks ago, 'That water is dirty, I can't get in the bath...
...Sacramento serial killer in the late '70s, the film emphasizes the normalcy of the victims' lives. Alex Trebec is bantering on "Jeopardy," a woman is washing the dishes in the kitchen sink, a child plays with a plastic toy--and seconds later the scene is a blood bath. Murderer Charles Reece (Alex McArthur) is literally the boy next door. The message? It could happen to anyone...It could happen...
...random, amoral way that glittering success and crippling insanity are doled out, sometimes to the same person. In compulsive revisions, the most recent of which, THE HOLY TERROR, opened last week off Broadway, the normally astute Gray (Butley, The Common Pursuit) has flung out the baby and preserved the bath water. Two ideas worked in the tale of a foppish, philandering publisher: narrating his decline in flashback, from the vantage of a man afflicted and now somewhat healed, which earned instant sympathy; and letting his worldly fall lead to a moral rise. Both have been muted, and only stray witticisms...