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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wild card at their rehearsal table is Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly), chorine, ineptly aspiring thespian and gangster's moll. Nick, her mobster lover (Joe Viterelli), is backing the show, in which, nasal accent and all, she is supposed to play a psychiatrist. Nick supplies Olive with a bodyguard. Try to cut one of her lines and you have a hood named Cheech (playwright-actor Chazz Palminteri) to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Gangster Steals the Show | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...took just two hours for a Pensacola, Florida, jury to convict former minister Paul Hill of violating the new federal abortion-clinic access law by shooting an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. He was also convicted of one federal firearm charge. Hill, acting as his own attorney, had played martyr in arguing the June 29 murders of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett were justifiable -- calling no witnesses, cross-examining no one and supplying burning rhetoric in lieu of evidence. His closing statement today: "This government is unjust because it does not protect innocent life. To the extent we take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABORTION SHOOTING . . . PAUL HILL CONVICTED | 10/5/1994 | See Source »

...Even some who claim to oppose justifiable homicide are notably shy about condemning the actions of Paul Hill. Says Don Treshman, president of Rescue America: "We regretted the passing of ((Dr. Britton's)) life just like a Jew in 1943 Poland who just heard Dr. Josef Mengele and his bodyguard were shot down in Auschwitz that morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apologists For | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...gunman shot and killed Dr. John Britton and his volunteer bodyguard, James Barrett, outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic. A suspect -- antiabortion activist Paul Hill -- was promptly arrested at the scene. The murderous attack was the second on a Pensacola abortion provider in 17 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week July 24-30 | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...afraid to go out at night; stores have difficulty keeping pistols, Mace and bulletproof jackets in stock; dinner conversations stop abruptly whenever a tail pipe backfires in the streets. "The crime problem today knows no limits," says Pavel Gusev, editor in chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, who travels with a bodyguard. "In the U.S. your Mafia has already divided up spheres of business, so the bosses no longer kill each other off. Here we have a wild market where state holdings are being turned over into private hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow: City On Edge | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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