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...author Abby Mann (who revised the script slightly for its Broadway debut) is a message playwright of the old school. Onstage, the work is rather lumpy and heavyhanded, especially since director John Tillinger has not solved the problem of how to integrate the cinema-like scenes outside the courtroom. And yet, "Judgment at Nuremberg" retains its power to move and provoke...
...that Mann, for all his polemics, faces up to the ambiguities of his subject. He wisely chose to focus, not on the first Nuremberg trials of the top Nazi war criminals, but on the second wave of cases, of German judges whose complicity was less clear-cut. The courtroom scenes are intense and satisfying, largely because the "other" side (especially Michael Hayden, as the young German defense attorney) is so well represented. And even though the chief accused (Maximilian Schell) confesses his guilt a little too neatly, and the homespun judge (George Grizzard) arrives at the "right" verdict...
...Scar is sure to have some fascinating moments. Last Friday's denouement, in which a New York Supreme Court jury declared SEAN (PUFFY) COMBS not guilty on weapons-possession and bribery charges stemming from a nightclub incident in which three people were shot, didn't disappoint. The Puffy-partisan courtroom exhaled a collective sigh of relief, Johnnie Cochran hugged his second most famous client, and Puffy's mother JANICE, who had brought him brown-bag lunches throughout the seven-week trial, thanked the Lord. Combs' friend and sometime bodyguard, Anthony (Wolf) Jones, was also exonerated, while Combs' rapper protege, Jamaal...
...This is the backdrop to the case that opened Monday in a Pretoria courtroom, over the intellectual property rights of the international pharmaceutical corporations who manufacture the drugs that could serve as a lifeline to those in the snapshot currently doomed...
...David Boies, who's getting more accustomed to legal surrender these days than he'd probably like, announced in Judge Marilyn Patel's courtroom Friday that Napster would this weekend install a "filter" designed to prevent users from downloading any of the 6,500 infringed-by-Napster-users songs that the Recording Industry of America has been kind enough to provide. Negotiations will continue next week, but the war would seem to be over...