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Screenwriter John Lee Hancock fuses Williams' four murder trials into one but is faithful to the local fauna: the gun-waving doyen, the man who walks an invisible dog, the voodoo priestess, the man haloed by horseflies. Eastwood has cast Williams' attorney as the trial judge and, as him(her)self, the Lady Chablis, a drag queen of note--one note--in a turn that will make no one forget Jaye Davidson...
...Democratic doyen had already paid more than $10 million to Averell's heirs, who had accused her and her advisers of blowing $40 million outright, including $20 million on a doomed hotel project in New Jersey. She also spent lavishly on herself. Alas, she didn't die smartly either. According to the Washington Post, she did not set up a trust to shelter the estate from taxes, so her heirs will receive a hefty bill from...
Again, Martha teaches us much while leaving us yearning for much more. We learn to make a variety of wreaths, all of which, astonishingly, are different from the ones displayed in her magazine's special November wreath issue. We see the holiday doyen package her Christmas cookies--alas, no recipes--in handsomely beribboned balsa-wood containers (not like those tacky doily-lined tins they throw at us on the Food Network). Best of all, we discover that Martha herself is far from infallible. "Do you know what I did last year?" she confides to her forester, "I covered my entire...
Smith's artistic talents were evident when he was a youngster in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he liked to draw when he wasn't playing basketball. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, he set out for New York City. Studies with graphic-art doyen Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts culminated in a "dream job" in TIME's art department. His four-day work schedule gives him time for his own painting-mixed media on panels-which has resulted in several one-man shows...
...provocative foreword by Dante's doyen John Freccero is as much troubling as it is enlightening. Freccero makes some insightful observations, most notably about the tension between characters 'historical identities and their allegorical functions in the Comedy but his treatment of the administration of justice in hell is not fully developed...