Word: cusack
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...papers came from Lex Cusack, a former law clerk in Connecticut who claims he found them among documents belonging to his father, Lawrence Cusack, a New York City attorney who died in 1985. Though the documents had been authenticated, Cusack claimed, by handwriting experts (and many had been sold to collectors for a total of some $4 million), the more the journalists looked at them, the more the papers began to look fishy. Last spring Mark Obenhaus, the free-lance producer working with Hersh on the TV documentary, noticed that one letterhead dated 1961 carried a ZIP code--before...
Hersh has removed the chapter in his book that was based on Cusack's documents and rewritten portions of the rest to reflect that omission, and the book is still scheduled to come out in November. ABC News president David Westin says he still "hopes and expects" to air the documentary later this year but won't make a final decision until it is completed. Hersh says he considers the excision only a minor blow to his wide-ranging examination of Kennedy's public and private life, and claims he felt "tremendous relief" at no longer having to deal with...
...wait a minute; Howard can't be gay. He's the track coach! And he's about to marry the sweet, desperately needy Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack). Though he plaintively denies he's gay, and though his parents (Debbie Reynolds and Wilford Brimley) support him, some people are intrusive or vengeful: a tabloid-TV reporter (Tom Selleck), the school principal (Bob Newhart) and a few students who think homosexuality is just too weird, man. As one solemnly declares, the human body has "in" holes and "out" holes, and "gay guys put 'in' stuff in the 'out' holes...
...small-town America-in this case, the "great BIG small town" of Greenleaf, Indiana. The twist is that the teacher in question, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) refuses to admit he's gay, and what's more, is virtually on the eve of his marriage to a fellow schoolteacher (Joan Cusack). Nonetheless, despite his protestations, he's immediately confronted with throngs of reporters and townsfolk who turn his well-ordered life and his unconscious complacency upside-down...
...rest of the principal cast is chock-full of top-notch comic actors who unfortunately aren't given enough room to expand beyond the realm of the obvious. Cusack's fans will likely enjoy her turn as the ugly-duckling fiancee badly in need of a self-esteem booster (which of course she gets, this being movie comedy land). Debbie Reynolds plays a blander kind of "Mother" more reminiscent of the comic strip "Cathy" than her recent foray with Albert Brooks. Bob Newhart, as the high school principal, manages to keep a completely deadpan expression throughout the entire movie, almost...