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...Julia Roberts Emerging unscathed from a rumor-filled pause in her career, Roberts, last seen in Hook in 1991, returned to the screen in The Pelican Brief, which opened huge in December. Earlier, in a spectacularly surprising and appealing move, she wed Lyle Lovett, music's quirkiest and most talented un-hunk...
Grisham's Law It should be a snap to adapt a John Grisham thriller. Read the novel, compress the exciting first half, rewrite the rest, keep it moving. Well, the films of The Firm and The Pelican Brief maunder and mope as if Grisham were Graham Greene. Not that it makes any difference. The Firm was 1993's third biggest grosser; Pelican is a cool Christmas...
...Arkansas politics, while a flatter trajectory took Jackson into private law practice. He developed a flair for grandstanding; in 1986, for example, he filed a $2 million suit on behalf of a woman who said she had purchased a ''maggoty'' Hershey's Kiss. Jackson wrote his brief in rhyme, releasing to the press such lines as, ''There, wiggling and squirming all over the place,/ Were oodles of maggots flavoring the taste.'' In another incident, he staged a protest of a power company's rate hike by symbolically tossing electric bills down a toilet while flushing sounds played in the background...
...shrimp. Bad idea. But here is the beauty of writing: on paper, in words, imagination has free reign. The untrue or hypothetical can withstand trial, cannot get the best of you, and folly is permitted. In the spirit of imagination, then, of Wonka-esque creative rendering, permit me this brief flight of fancy: Miles and I are seated at the Scrabble board, prepared to engage in this trivial pursuit, and the competitive juices start flowing like it’s the 1997 NCAA Final Four all over again. He draws the better tile and gets to go first, running...
Reasonable people will disagree about the appropriate wage level for Harvard workers, but we can’t afford to forget what is at stake. One of my favorite music albums ends with a brief interview with a homeless man. The man nonchalantly describes his life on the street and how he came to live it. He’s not angry, and he doesn’t ask for help. He just wants his interviewer to understand one thing. When you’re talking about poverty, he says, “Stakes is high.” Harvard...