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...most memorable portraits of any character yet seen in this medium, Bechdel paints her father as a classic "closet case." An obsessive home decorator and control freak, he challenges any gender non-conformity he discovers in his children, for example making the young Alison, whose playground nickname is "butch," wear a barrette when she doesn't want to. He also runs the family business, a funeral home, which gives the book its snarky double-entendre title. Far from fun, thanks chiefly to the father's quashing of all affections lest the "bad" one be exposed, Bechdel compares her home life...
That’s where Kaavya sits, and it’s scary for us to see her there. Although assuring ourselves that we would never plagiarize others’ work, we, too, fear that some freak revelation might suddenly collapse our own personal tower...
...transactions was discussed at a board of directors' finance meeting in 2000. Skilling, unwilling to give an inch, even tried to deny he was present at such meetings - even when he was listed in the minutes as being there. "Skilling prided himself on being a control freak. Now he's essentially arguing there was a complete breakdown of control," says Wynne. "He can't have it both ways...
DIED. Barry Bingham Jr., 72, third-generation chief of a Kentucky media empire run by the liberal, philanthropic, much chronicled Bingham family, sometimes called the Kennedys of the South; of respiratory failure, after a battle with Hodgkin's disease; in Glenview, Ky. After two brothers died in freak accidents, Bingham took over the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times from his father in 1971. He set new ethics guidelines, pushed public-service journalism and led the papers to three Pulitzers before a battle among the siblings prompted patriarch Barry Bingham Sr. to sell the papers to Gannett...
...producing, directing and acting in Hannibal. Are you really ambitious or a total control freak? It depends who you ask. I'm really ambitious, I'd like to think. The first two movies I made, I not only wrote, directed and starred in, I also cooked for the crew...