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...near strangers and gathering twitchy characters under his wing. He's romancing the wife of a jailed drug dealer. Then somebody brains him with a vase in his apartment. Ray won't say who did it, not even to Nerese Ammons, the black police detective, single mother and childhood acquaintance who wants to get to the bottom of the crime. The bottom is dark and deep...
...salt, some may have seen contrition in the video image of Giuffrè's slightly slouched posture, or anxiety in his constant twirling and clicking of a ballpoint pen. The question of whether to trust this man - nicknamed Manuzza (the Hand) for his stunted right hand due to childhood polio - presents key questions about the state of Italy's public affairs. If Giuffrè is to be believed, important officials of the country's largest political party - allegedly including the Prime Minister himself - had direct dealings with the Mafia. If Giuffrè's story is not credible, that means politically...
...months’ time, the stuff of his childhood will be aired on a new WB sitcom, The O’Keefe’s, created and executive produced by his younger brother Mark...
Forget about smallpox. This happens every day with childhood diseases. No child can go to school unless he's been immunized. Parents have no choice. Think of it: we force parents to inject healthy children with organisms--some living, some dead--that in a small number of cases will cripple or kill the child. It is an extraordinary violation of the privacy and bodily integrity of the little citizen. Yet it is routine. Why? Because what is at stake is the vulnerability of the entire society to catastrophic epidemic. In that case, individuals must submit...
...brittle and snappish as Hellman; Cherry Jones, elegant and withering as McCarthy) meeting in the afterlife, railing at each other anew. "I ruined your third act!" exults McCarthy. "I was your third act!" retorts Hellman. Ephron's play, alas, has two acts full of distractions and gimmicks. There are childhood flashbacks that force grown actresses to talk like widdle girls. The literary men in their lives (Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv) are trotted on and off the stage like stuffed dummies. There are actual stuffed dummies too--a cutesy stage device that wears thin quickly--and songs by Marvin Hamlisch...