Word: cons
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...forgive me - I suspect that feelings, mere feelings, set a standard that is too low, or anyway that is evanescent and unreliable. "Closure" is nonsense, a con that is retailed by "grief counselors." Feelings are not enough. They wear off, as drugs wear off. Justice has something to do with feelings, I guess. But it needs sturdier reasons...
...thing about Jerry Bruckheimer: he really knows how to blow stuff up. As one of Hollywood's biggest and most durable producers, he blasted through Alcatraz in The Rock, tossed an airliner full of psychos onto the Las Vegas strip in Con Air and destroyed a hurling asteroid in Armageddon. In the 1980s, along with his late partner, the fast-living Don Simpson, he changed the movie business forever with a highly comic, highly charged formula of music, muscles and mayhem. Through sales of movie tickets, videocassettes and sound tracks, he has generated an estimated $11 billion. And now, wouldn...
...speak ill of the dead" is an ancient axiom. But there were few good words said of Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, after she was shot in the head in a car outside Vitello's Italian restaurant in Studio City, Calif. Gold digger. Star stalker. Con artist. Grifter. Those were the polite descriptions. Bakley was the mother of two girls born out of wedlock: a seven-year-old who she claimed was fathered by rock-'n'-roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis (paternity was never substantiated), and an 11-month-old she said had been sired by Marlon Brando's troubled...
...kept every document involved with her." The documents, he says, will help identify Bakley's enemies and perhaps pinpoint a suspect from the countless scams she worked, including trying to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars in bad checks, claiming affairs with celebs and perpetrating a lonely hearts con game. An excerpt from one of her "Dear single guy" notes: "Honey, please hurry and send me at least $75 or even a plane ticket...If you can't afford this please send me a Christmas gift and a $10 or $20 bill to help me out. I'll send...
...CON: People like having the biggest car on the block