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...entire multimillion-dollar portfolio walked into a Merrill Lynch outlet in Miami with a .357 magnum in his briefcase and killed the branch manager, seriously wounded a broker and then committed suicide. The customer, Arthur Kane, 53, later turned out to be a disbarred Kansas City lawyer and convicted con man who was living in Florida under a witness protection program. Despite the incident's odd circumstances, it crystallized brokers' fears; in one Queens, N.Y., office, brokers reportedly donned buttons that read, I AM NOT THE BRANCH MANAGER...
NORMAN Mailer put a new twist on the ex-con-as-artist theme a while back when he got felon and author Jack Henry Abbott released from prison and back on the streets, where he killed again. Although director John Hancock is a little less daring in his treatment of the theme, his Weeds is one weird melange of a movie...
Fortunately, there's also a series of unusual supporting performances. John Tobles-Bey as Umstetter's sidekick Navarro is lively and especially effective in the comedy sequences. He's a vigorous, charming con man. Ernie Hudson, as tough-guy Bagdad, sings "The Impossible Dream" in a scene which absolutely mesmerizes. It's a spooky, lucid moment in a movie that is often confused...
...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
...Cosby learned that he could make people like him, and get his way, by making them laugh. He would con his mother out of a cookie by reprising a humorous radio show, and amuse his brothers by cooking breakfast with imaginative dashes of food coloring: purple waffles, green scrambled eggs. At school he would charm the teachers and tell tall tales. An early report card said, "William should become either a lawyer or an actor because he lies so well." Cosby starred in class plays and displayed both a talent for mimicry and a prodigious memory. He scored high...