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...avuncular piano teacher Joel Cranston, Kelsey Grammer is just right: he cocks his head and gives fond smiles to the good students and occasional exasperated lectures to the more challenging ones, like Victor (Walter Perez), who thinks Bach is lame. More of a surprise is Megan Mullally, who finally sheds her Will & Grace persona with the character of voice teacher Fran Rowan. In one of the most compelling scenes in the film, she takes her kids out to sing karaoke, wows them with her own skills, and then tries to explain why she never "made it." Ms. Rowan's self...
...before any measures could be taken against the company, five Senators came calling at the FHLBB, requesting that the charges against Lincoln not be pursued, on the basis that the S&L was a major employer in their states. These Senators - McCain , John Glenn (D-OH), Alan Cranston (D-CA), Donald Riegle (D-MI) and Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) - had little in common. Most of them came from different states and different parts of the political spectrum. One of the only elements that linked the men together was Charles Keating. The banker had been a major contributor to each...
...Keating himself was convicted on 73 counts of fraud in 1993 and served 4 years in prison. Though the Keating Five emerged from the scandal legally unscathed - only Cranston received a formal reprimand - the political consequences have had more lasting effects. Cranston left office, while both Riegle and DeConcini opted out of running for re-election. McCain, for his part, has referred to his involvement in the affair as "the worst mistake of my life...
...signed up for The Pleasures of Japanese Poetry. Coman, born in Comstantza, Romania, had already been practicing haiku for eight years and has published two books, one on haiku and one on rensaku. The seminar involved reading, writing, and translating Japanese poetry, and Professor of Japanese Literature Edwin A. Cranston began the year by having his students make their own linked-verses, expecting students to write in English. To the surprise of Cranston and the rest of the class, Coman completed hers in modern Japanese. “Most of us were just taking the class because it sounded interesting...
...agent brother-in-law. Not even “Weeds” managed to get to those storylines until its second season.Naturally, a premise this loopy calls for a stronger-than-average lead actor, and “Breaking Bad” has a great one in Bryan Cranston. Best known as Hal, the splenetic dad on “Malcolm in the Middle,” Cranston is a master of the slow-burning freak-out. Watching Cranston’s eyes well up with rage just before he inevitably snapped was one of “Malcolm?...