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...exclusion of any other issues in the trial, has also offended many both in and out of NOW. Bruce told the Los Angeles Times, for instance, that her message about spousal abuse offered "a needed break from all that talk of racism." During a protest outside NBC studios in Burbank, just before Simpson canceled his interview with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, she said of Simpson: "You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome in our culture"--a statement that some listeners interpreted as "Go back to Africa...
...title fool you. "Fat Men in Skirts" conjures up a vision of the worst of current theatrical comedy, that combination of self-conscious cuteness and sitcom timing that seems to have migrated, Ebola-like, from Burbank to Broadway. But while Nicky Silver gives in too often to the temptation of cheap laughs, topical references and ironic mugging, the play is ultimately redeemed from its worst moments by a clever and genuinely surprising treatment of sexuality and its most famous pitfall, the Oedipus complex...
...Judge Ito continued to call to check on her condition, and after her death on Sept. 8, he phoned me to offer his condolences. Lynne was not a celebrity. Judge Ito's care and compassion touched her and lifted her spirits in ways words cannot express. KENNETH W. BATCHELOR, Burbank, California...
DIED. MARY WICKES, 79, character actress; in Burbank, California. Hard to name but easy to recognize, Wickes was the tart-tongued accent to 50 years of pop culture: stage work like The Man Who Came to Dinner and Oklahoma, TV turns from I Love Lucy to M*A*S*H and more than 50 films, including classics like Now Voyager and recent hits like Little Women and Sister...
...acquitted Simpson of first-degree-murder charges, but according to a TIME-CNN poll, 56% of Americans still think he's guilty. The planned NBC interview prompted thousands of angry phone calls to the network. Demonstrators from the National Organization for Women and other groups massed outside NBC's Burbank, California, studios in protest. Advertisers refused to buy commercial time on the program, thus enabling NBC to take the high road by announcing that the interview would run without ads. (Simpson insisted in the Times that it was he who wanted the interview to be commercial-free...