Word: beaters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fired him as executive producer of her eponymous ABC-TV hit series. Then, after she and he had grabbed five years of scandal-sheet headlines as a white-trash version of Taylor and Burton, Roseanne had filed for divorce, badmouthing Arnold as a no-talent wife beater, a charge he denied. And thanks to the successive failure of two dud TV sitcoms, The Jackie Thomas Show and Tom, he had dropped to Tinseltown's F list. He might have had a better chance of getting a waiter's job at Spago than snaring a reservation there for brunch...
...villain? Why, he's as broadly written (by Tony Gilroy) and played (by David Strathairn) as anyone who ever twirled a wickedly waxed moustache. A drunk and a wife beater, Joe St. George is Dolores' husband and Selena's father-so suspiciously sweet with the latter that we know long before we're told that he lusted unnaturally for her when she was a child and is the source of her repressed memories--and more than deserves the bad end Dolores arranges...
...King best seller to hit the big screen features Kathy Bates as a coarse-tongued yet endearing heroine who supports herself by caring for a rich invalid (Judy Parfitt) while mourning her estrangement from her deeply disturbed daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The villain is Dolores' husband, a drunken wife beater (David Strathairn) who deserves the bad end she arranges for him in a tale complicated by its vagueness. "King boldly uses the most primitive and melodramatic forms to explore very basic emotional issues," says TIME critic Richard Schickel. "This is his fantasia on feminist themes...
Cobb once held some 40 major-league hitting and base-running records, and his lifetime batting average (.367) remains unsurpassed. Aside from that, he had everything to hide: unquestionably a womanizer, a wife beater and a venomous racist, he was possibly a murderer and a fixer of ball games. But if he did not want all that written down for posterity, he did not otherwise deny who and what he was. He flaunted his nature in the same way he flaunted his talent on the playing field -- with vicious abandon. His only virtue was his total lack of hypocrisy...
...true: what's past could be prologue to a Cinderella finish to a season that long ago looked to have gone sour. Thanks to a Saturday tie between league-leader Brown and Crimson-beater Columbia, Harvard knows that it can run the table against Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown and steal an NCAA tournament berth...