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...Buchanan was an ardent defender of Karl Linnas, the convicted Nazi war criminal, even trying to stop his 1987 deportation from New York to the Soviet Union. His tireless defense of accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk was partly justified. There's substantial evidence that Demjanjuk was not the Butcher of Treblinka he was accused of being in an Israeli court. But he was indisputably a camp guard. Even so, Buchanan could not resist comparing him with Alfred Dreyfus, the French army officer who was entirely innocent of the charges of treason brought against him by an anti-Semitic French...
Just three days before Christmas, Rob Butcher was fired as the New York Yankees' media-relations director because he was with family in Ohio instead of in New York City to help announce that the club had signed pitcher David Cone. A week later, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner offered Butcher his job back, but Butcher declined. This was the 11th time Steinbrenner had fired Butcher. Apparently a man can take only so much. The Yankee boss has now gone through a dozen p.r. men. All 12, oddly enough, quit...
...rodeo in the nation, Angola is home to what the event's organizers tout as a "gang of crazy convict cowboys." Among them: all-around runner-up Johnny Brooks, right, who owes his title to skillful bull riding and a botched grocery-store robbery; and Terry Hawkins, a former butcher-shop employee who killed his supervisor with a hammer and went on to win this year's "Guts & Glory," an event in which contestants try to remove a poker chip taped to the forehead of an angry bull...
...first, the desert island scenario is played for laughs; as Bishop complains of hunger, Phyllis pulls a huge butcher-knife from her handbag, with the instruction: "Go cut the arm off that nun." But as mother and son gradually realize that they are not going to be rescued, they begin to drift towards insanity--Bishop, neurotic and stuttering from the start, talks obsessively about Katherine Hepburn, while Phyllis clings to her vanity about clothes and make-up in order to fend off the horrible truth...
...said, one shouldn't romanticize the past. And a closing thought: If Marty, the lovelorn butcher from Chayefsky's teleplay, and his best friend Angie were to fall through a tear in the space-time continuum and wind up in 1995, they wouldn't have to run through their memorably aimless conversation: "What do you feel like doing tonight?" "I don't know, what do you feel like doing?" Today they'd just turn on The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or NYPD Blue and enjoy the best that contemporary American entertainment has to offer. What they would make of Dennis...