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Cousin, too, is changing, maturing and learning to deal with life on the row. He still watches cartoons, but he's reading more. He read John Grisham's The Chamber to get some idea about what death row was really like; now he's reading For the Defense by Rubin Ellis. But he is still caught up in memories of childhood. The father of a recreational-league basketball player whose team was an arch rival of Cousin's squad is in the next cell. "It was the only team that beat us," says Cousin. "That was the last game...
...Bush's 1,000 points of light; he's one of the Junior Chamber of Commerce's 10 Outstanding Young Americans...
DIED. STEPHANE GRAPPELLI, 89, exuberant jazz violinist; in Paris. Grappelli started out as a pianist for silent films but switched to strings for the swing standards he loved. America had Ellington, but Europe got the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in the 1930s--the chamber group-cum-jazz ensemble that featured Grappelli and guitarist Django Reinhardt. The quintet broke up during World War II, but Grappelli played on--recording more than 100 albums...
Though only 20 years old, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston has been named "one of the top three orchestras in the state" by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and it fully deserves its ranking. Directed by the dynamic Gisele Ben-Dor, this professional cooperative chamber orchestra gave an inspiring Mostly-Mozart concert at Sanders Theatre last Sunday. The concert also featured guest soloist Max Levinson '94, a Resident Tutor at Lowell House and winner of the 1997 Dublin Piano Competition. This was his only solo appearance this season in Boston...
Studio executives smile as America continues to be indulged in its Grisham frenzy--it makes for profitable publishing, they think, so why shouldn't it make for blockbuster movies? With the exception of The Chamber, all of the Grisham adaptations have dominated the box office with over $100 million...