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...scenario has its soft spots, but it does allow Stone to adopt a white-trash Southern cadence and wear a persuasive dust-bowl scowl. In stir she sits and stares, her old sexual insolence tamped into sadness and contempt. She looks haggard, wiry, prickly--fabulous. By the end she is practically Garbo in Camille, the doomed woman comforting the gentle, lesser man who loves her. Stone does a fine job without surrendering her star quality. She just can't save this schematic story...
RELEASED. F. LEE BAILEY, 62, lawyer; from 44 days in jail for contempt of court; after agreeing to hand over 400,000 shares of stock belonging to an ex-client; in Tallahassee, Florida. Bailey had considered the stock payment for his services...
...makes everyone miserable. Bad news for the Kids: the movie (directed by Kevin Makin) will have the same effect. The story is flat and shrill; the characters show little life; the needle on the giggle-ometer barely flinches. The Kids don't have the wit to harness their galloping contempt...
...Darden blames himself. One of the more wrenching sections of In Contempt involves Darden's description of the glove demonstration, which was his idea. Vannatter's "sausage fingers," he writes, slid easily into the glove, but after Simpson struggled before the jury to put it on, Darden was frozen out of the case. "People ask me now would I do it again," Darden writes. "No. Of course...
...ignorance as a defense for violating acceptable standards of ethical behavior during Bill Clinton's tenure as Governor of Arkansas. Yet the incestuous business-political relationships of Hillary Clinton and a total indifference to the logical consequences of such actions by Governor Clinton imply either ignorance or an arrogant contempt for ethical conduct. These are not admirable people, and no amount of spin can change that. The question of character and integrity will loom as large as that of political ideology in the presidential election. KEN FAUST Birmingham, Alabama...