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DIED. Robert Earl Jones, 96, veteran actor of stage and screen who famously played Robert Redford's con-man mentor in the Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, N.J. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings and won acclaim off-Broadway for Moon on a Rainbow Shawl in 1962--which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...
...watchdog group's beef with Interior is tepid compared with the blast delivered a day earlier by the department's own inspector general, Earl Devaney. In scorching testimony before a House Government Reform subcommittee the no-nonsense Devaney charged that during his seven years as Interior's IG his revelations of misdeeds and foul-ups have been routinely "disregarded by the department." Numerous IG reports on regulations circumvented, procurement irregularities, project failures and bureaucrats being awarded bonuses despite their failures have been met with "vehement challenges" by Interior officials "to the quality of our audits, evaluations and investigations," he told...
...NAME IS EARL SEASON 1 CRIME MAY NOT pay, but doing good is no picnic either, as petty crook Earl Hickey (Jason Lee, below right) learns in this sitcom. Hit by a car after winning the lottery, he decides to repair his Karma by righting every wrong he's done. With naive teddy-bear brother Randy (Ethan Suplee, above left), his feral, conniving ex-wife (Jaime Pressly) and her sweetly spacey new husband (Eddie Steeples), he ineptly cuts a swath of penance through his small town. Earl is a cartoony fella--he perpetually looks as if he just lost...
...Earl Dudley Associates in Birmingham, Ala., 10 fans do little to tame the 97-degree heat. Last weekend, four of the surveyor supply company's air conditioning units were mined for their copper coils. Six other businesses on their block languish with open doors, waiting for their air conditioner replacements. "I'd just like five minutes alone with the guys who did it," says sales manager Mike Smith, as he wiped sweat from his brow...
...introducing some lubricious poems by the 17th century Earl of Rochester that had been published by Princeton University Press, the magazine went out of its way to refer to "the forces of censorship" in a complimentary way: "It is to their credit, and to the credit of the Postmaster's General's Office, that they have permitted the book to be freely sold and to travel unhindered through the mails these last 12 years." Attentive ears could detect the sound of sucking up to the Post Office. (Those kind words would fall on deaf ears...