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Michael Costanza has known Jerry Seinfeld for 24 years, since they were students at Queens College, said the plaintiff's lawyer Jonathan Fisher. Much of the obnoxious sitcom character accurately reflects Costanza, but much does not, according to the lawyer. "George is a jerk," Fisher said. "This has had a negative effect on [the real Costanza's] life...
Even scientific research has increased, said Alfred W. Compton, Fisher professor of natural history and a native of South Africa. "There may be a greater willingness [now] on the side of American scientists to visit South Africa," he said...
...that’s living inside their bedroom wall are filmed in wonderful blues and reds which fade into and out of one another as he traverses the line between sleep and consciousness. Additionally, some of the symbolism inherent to the filming works particularly well. Frequent images of a Fisher Price record player serve as a continual reminder that Joey and Sissel are themselves merely children, prematurely throwing themselves into an adult world. And the reflections on the their window which just barely mask some rather gratuitous full-frontal nudity reinforce the suggestion that even in their purest states, something...
They make a strange menagerie, the Hal Hartley clan. The people in his odd, alert comedies (Trust, Amateur, Flirt) inhabit some Long Island of the mind, where Amy Fisher-style melodrama rubs up against working-class angst. They are part strong, silent types, part East Coast neurotics. They revel in their own contradictions; one Hartley heroine, a nymphomaniac virgin, explains the anomaly by saying, "I'm choosy." His creatures will sit mute and mopey, then turn endlessly articulate once they get going. Self-conscious but not self-aware, skeptical yet wildly romantic, they have a horror of the personal commitment...
...list of suspects is somewhat predictable: Ike Fisher, Ella's ex-husband whose post-marital relationship seems more forced than it was forged; Lindsey Wentworth, Ella's upper-class executive assistant with a few secrets of her own; Christian Chung, the University comptroller rumored to have vied for Ella's job; Ian McAllister, head of the Economics Department and a staunch opponent of Ella's policies, and Leo Barrett, Harvard's newest president with a past to which only Ella was privy. Diverse though these characters may seem, the author makes little effort to develop their behaviors or idiosyncrasies...