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...Kiss of the Spider Woman. Better than the movie, bolder than the book, this brassy musical centers on a homosexual flirtation in an Argentine prison. Scenes of torture crosscut to film fantasies with hunks and feathers. Comebacks for star Chita Rivera, director Harold Prince, composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, plus a stellar debut for Brent Carver in a show asserting there can be no freedom without sexual freedom...
Fingleton went on to write and produce the comedy “Drop Dead Fred.” Later, he met up with his younger sister and co-authored the book “Swimming Upstream.” In 2003, he saw it made into the movie...
...with everyone else's, those bills are exploding. So, too, are future obligations, as the baby boomers prepare to leave their government jobs. This year New Jersey's State Health Benefits Program will cost taxpayers $1 billion for active workers and an additional $900 million for retirees, according to Fred Beaver, director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits. By 2010, the state will spend more on health care for retirees ($2.3 billion) than for active workers ($1.8 billion...
...maintain a 13-10 edge, but also in sports bars and on call-in shows and even on august editorial pages. The question of which organization is really America's Team was taken up by Paul Gigot in the Wall Street Journal in response to a piece written by Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard. Barnes had maintained that the Cowboys' status as the national team was justified because the city, the owner, the fans and the character of the team were all reflective of conservative America. Gigot, who confessed that his mother is one of the Packers...
...cynicism in the U.S., Murrow (well enough played by David Strathairn) becomes in the film a chain smoker in a suit, making pretty, unexceptionable speeches in support of the First Amendment. They are unshadowed by doubt or fear or, indeed, any sense of what made Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly (whom Clooney plays), such virtuously embattled figures. The movie's appeal is all in its style; its substance is all in its straight-to-camera lectures...