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...with their children, surprises the couple with his excellent cooking and knowledge of art and literature. After they invite Paul to spend the night, he surprises them once again when he invites a male prostitute to his guest bedroom. Flan and Ouisa soon discover that their guest is a con artist armed with a prep school student’s address book, although Paul steals nothing and seems more attracted to the glamour and sophistication of wealth than to its material pleasures. The play is based on the true story of David Hampton, a Boston man who schmoozed...
...commercial challenge is to interest viewers in a cop with a personal life, in the time slot opposite NBC's no-feelings-please juggernaut Law & Order. If anyone can do that, it's Gugino, a potential breakout star, and not only for her Lynda Carter 2.0 looks. Pursuing a con man who marries and robs lonely rich women, Karen is asked by one of his exes--who is still sweet on him--whether she'd kill him if it came to that. "I don't really care how good a listener he is," Karen says. Other actresses would snap...
...Ackermann is under fire for his role at Mannesmann, but he’s won praise for his running of Deutsche Bank pro • Took a hatchet to bloated costs • Revamped board structure • Dumped stake in dozens of firms con • Clashed with German tradition • Not as profitable as key rivals • Faces possible five-year prison term if convicted...
Everyone’s favorite iron-fisted neo-con/boy next door Cedrick “Skippy” MacGregor ’04 was overheard at Temple Bar on Saturday explaining his continued support for the recent course of U.S. Foreign Policy. Says Skippy, “Anyone who has no respect for the lives of others or of themselves, well, we should just kill ‘em all.” No word on whether or not Skippy has accepted the Bush Administration’s offer to serve as the first Secretary...
ARRESTED. Charles Sobhraj, 59, seductive con man and accused serial killer, who has spent more than 20 years in Asian jails but has never been convicted of murder; in Kathmandu. The feral Sobhraj, a half-Indian, half-Vietnamese French citizen, traveled between Europe and Asia in the '60s and '70s picking up Western tourists and drugging and robbing them. By the time Indian police caught up with him in 1976-after he drugged a hotel buffet served to French tourists-he was a suspect in the murder of at least 20 travelers in Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Nepal, Thailand...