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Green's only public statement on his private memo was an brief reply to a reporter's question last month: "I think the memo speaks for itself...
...could a man who had moved so many people with his work end up a suicide so soon after his great triumph? The brief obituaries that appeared around the world suggested a morality tale about a person undone by the curse of fame. The details, however, show how fame was only the final, dramatic sting of a death foretold by Carter's personality, the pressure to be first where the action is, the fear that his pictures were never good enough, the existential lucidity that came to him from surviving violence again and again -- and the drugs he used...
This summer proved to be chockedfull of some wonderful filmmaking. By the same token, it had some real losers. Below is a brief list accompanied by our abbreviated opinions. Make up your mind, since exams, or just your summer, are over, and go support and Hollywood monolith. Here goes...
...Justice Department is backing up President Clinton's attempt to put Paula Corbin Jones' sexual harassment suit on the courts' back burner until his presideny expires. In a brief filed today titled "Statement of Interest of the United States," the Department said presidents generally should not have to defend themselves against private suits based on pre-presidential acts. Whether that holds up in the case of DOJ's current boss, however, is still up to the courts...
...detained three men Aug.12 in Kaliningrad, a western outpost on the Polish border, after they tried to sell a 132-pound container of the radioactive material for $1 million. The would-be buyers included Poles, Germans and Russians. The disclosure of the six-day-old arrests gave Moscow brief cover as officials from Germany, the U.S. and other Western countries demanded cooperation on tracking smugglers and securing nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, persistent Russian denials that any nuclear material came from the motherland sounded hollower. Euratom, the agency that keeps tabs on the 300 tons of plutonium officially in the European...