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Did you hear about the New Jersey garage owner known to his friends as the "jovial giant"? Seems he was shot to death in his driveway, allegedly by a former Scout leader who was having an affair with his wife. How about the middle-aged beautician in Florida who used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Walk on the Seamy Side | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...first two segments are prayers, one a confession with Bogosian down on his knees in a spotlight as if he is kneeling in a confessional. The second is a kind of junkie's lament. In the latter, Bogosian deftly adopts a surreal street patter ending in a simple amen. Both are supplications to the audience. Bogosian is asking for forgiveness and understanding...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: All My Brain and Body Need | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

The soul baring goes on and on, recorded in 60-second messages to the Apology Sound-Off Line, a Los Angeles-based telephone service that offers the catharsis of confession for the price of a phone call. The service, started up this summer by a Los Angeles outfit called United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: True Confessions by Telephone | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Occasionally the movie is so inconsistent that it's hard to believe Lumet watched his own film. Arthur spends the entire film castigating his whole family about the need for secrecy, yet in one scene he gets drunk, comes home, and shrieks out a confession to the neighborhood at the...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Rebels Without a Clue | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

O.K., lissena this. Richard Condon useta write very funny stuff, right up there with George V. Higgins, but lately there is too much stuff and not enough funny. Mainly, this third book of the Prizzi series, about the good-guy Mafia assassin Charley Partanna, needs a dose of bran. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 19, 1988 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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