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...kids who had gathered petitions on his behalf sign their names on his casket. Clad in shiny parkas, jean jackets and sneakers, they autographed with magic markers in the Italian-flag colors of green and red: Riccardo, Jacopo, Eva, Alessia, all bid goodbye with messages of "Ciao!" and "Con affetto." Pastor Gioele Fuligno, a Baptist minister, led the funeral rites with a fire-and-brimstone sermon that stunned the Catholic crowd. Strangely, though, it all seemed to make sense to the 100 or so townsfolk in attendance. All of it except for that Texas sentence handed down...
...played a deranged cab-driver, an aggressively tattooed ex-con with revenge fantasies, several Mob bosses and an animated shark, but in few guises does Robert De Niro strike more fear into the heart of people than when they're interviewing him. TIME sent its most talkative editor to the office of the famously tight-lipped star, a few blocks from ground zero, for a conversation about The Good Shepherd, his second directorial effort (the first was 1993's A Bronx Tale...
...quality. Seven of those comedies (all but The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) are amassed here as a reminder of how fast, reckless and smart movies can be. Sturges' social satire fizzes in The Great McGinty and Hail the Conquering Hero. But the pearl is The Lady Eve, with con artiste Barbara Stanwyck seducing naive Henry Fonda on the high seas and, just for fun, doing it again as a different woman on land...
...DIED. Robert Earl Jones, 96, veteran actor of stage and screen who famously played Robert Redford's con-man mentor in the Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, New Jersey. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings, and won acclaim in 1962 for the off-Broadway Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...
...Locke (Terry O'Quinn), a paraplegic miraculously healed on the island. There is Hurley (Jorge Garcia), a likable sad sack who won the lottery playing a set of numbers--4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42--that we learn have mystic significance. There is a fugitive (Evangeline Lilly), a wisecracking con man (Josh Holloway), a heroin-addicted has-been rock star (Dominic Monaghan), a former Iraqi torturer (Naveen Andrews...