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...After approaching too costly stars like Alan Alda and Danny Glover, Bochco settled on LaPaglia, a talented character actor who has made his mark in a number of independent films including Bulletproof Heart and the current Steve Buscemi film Trees Lounge. Bochco then set about retooling the show to exploit the dramatic possibilities the new character offered. Says LaPaglia: "The character of Hoffman was a statesman who pretty much took the moral high ground. My character is more human in that he screws up and then tries to fix it. I think the fall from grace and the recovery from...
...Abrego guilty of masterminding the movement of almost 15 tons of cocaine into the United States and laundering $10.5 million. A sentence has not yet been handed down, but he is likely to face life imprisonment. Rumors are still flying about the extent to which Garcia Abrego managed to exploit a corrupt Mexican government to build a $2 billion a year drug business. Despite rumored links between Garcia Abrego and Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas, the trial testimony highlighted only corruption among certain low-level police officials. The DEA believes that Garcia Abrego is behind...
Ever since Jodie Foster faced off against Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, Hollywood has been in love with the image of imperiled Good staring down incarcerated Evil. Just Cause, Copycat and Dead Man Walking all exploit a dramatic tension that is both elemental and cost-efficient; it requires only a bare room and an actor able to summon some malefic grandeur...
...approaches I'm Losing You somewhat cautiously, since serious Hollywood novels tend to hit the same keys--decadence, emptiness, bad faith. There's an essential hypocrisy to these sorts of books. While they self-importantly lay bare the meaninglessness of celebrity worship, they simultaneously exploit that very failing--an insatiable desire to read about the movie business. For I'm Losing You, Wagner has indeed rounded up the usual suspects: nihilistic agents, pornographers, washed-up producers, depraved plastic surgeons. And they are indeed doing the usual things: having soulless sex, taking drugs, using each other. Nevertheless, Wagner has written...
...year since the "Trial of the Century" ended, Judge Ito has kept a low profile. Unlike other O.J. players, he has declined to write a book or otherwise exploit his celebrity status, though he has spoken on a number of occasions to lawyers' groups. Nonetheless, among L.A. courthouse wags, "pulling an Ito" has entered the legal lexicon to describe someone who has become intoxicated by a celebrity case. Gawkers still occasionally wander into Ito's courtroom, now located on a higher floor, to see the familiar face preside over routine criminal trials. Last April Ito suffered a setback: a federal...