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...they give birth; the veils of dead brides float in the rank breeze. Proud, loving Hatidza (Ljubica Adzovic) has the power of healing, and her grandchild Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) can do a few telekinetic tricks too. We won't even discuss -- because they come at the end of this beggar's banquet of a film -- the walking outhouse and the killer fork...
Advocates for the needy applauded the decision, which has continued to reverberate nationally. "If you silence a beggar, you cut off one of his or her most effective means of communication and advocacy," said Douglas Lasdon, executive director of the Legal Action Center for the Homeless. "If the homeless have received any assistance, it is because their pleas have been seen and heard." Burt Neuborne, a law professor at New York University, concurred, arguing that "to the extent subways are simply extensions of the streets, the same freedoms should apply in both places." But the MTA denounced the judge...
Overly aggressive or dangerous panhandlers, however, will not automatically enjoy legal protection. "Judge Sand's ruling doesn't say a beggar can corner people or abuse them," explained Columbia law professor Vincent Blasi. "The First Amendment protects only the right to ask, not the right to harass." In fact, several days after his ruling, Judge Sand modified the decision to allow the MTA to regulate panhandling more selectively by banning solicitations on moving subway cars and near token booths...
...Gypsy Rose Lee. Prince of Central Park, which quickly closed, derived from a book that had also prompted a made-for-TV movie. Brecht's own The Threepenny Opera, featuring rock star Sting as the seductive villain Macheath, is freely filched from British satirist John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera. Sad to say, although each show could boast ingenious design and staging or beguiling acting, far from the best writers have been at work...
Kiely's third daughter, Christina, is now a Harvard junior, but she got an early start on her extracurricular activities at Harvard: "I was in The Beggar's Opera with my father when I was four or five," she says. She says she never got to see the end of the show because her mother always whisked her off to bed after her brief appearance on stage...