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ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death at what made him the top of the pops. Through...
Enter Errol Morris. While making a documentary in 1985 about a psychiatrist who testifies in death-penalty cases, the director stumbled across Adams' story. "I was interested enough that I wanted the details," Morris recalls. What he found in the prosecutor's files shocked him. The slain officer's partner, who testified that the killer had bushy hair like Adams', had at first told investigators that the car window "was too dirty to see through." Prosecutor Doug Mulder argued that the defense could not cross-examine a witness because she was traveling. In fact, she was staying at a Dallas...
Perhaps the most chilling part of the movie is Harris' virtual confession to the crime. Harris, who is on death row for a 1985 murder, tells Morris that he is sure Adams is innocent "because I'm the one who knows." At the December hearing, Harris admitted that he was alone and holding the gun when it went off. Mulder, who has since left the D.A.'s office, discounts the admission. Says he: "Before it's all said and done, he'll recant again." Still, prosecutors have not contested the December recommendation...
...story thus far: British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, 41, is in hiding somewhere in England. He lives under a death threat imposed by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who charges that Rushdie's new novel, The Satanic Verses, is blasphemous and an insult to Islam. For good measure, Iranians have offered a bounty of as much as $5.2 million to Rushdie's executioner. The world is stunned by the notion that the Iranian leader would issue a death threat against a British subject who has merely written a work of phantasmagoric fiction that, to be sure, occasionally deals with Islam...
...days later, one of Khomeini's colleagues, President Ali Khamenei, declares that the death sentence might be rescinded if only Rushdie would repent. Rushdie duly issues a formal apology, saying he meant no insult to true believers. Will Khomeini forgive him? Will the death sentence be lifted...