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...under a gag order that prevents him from discussing the case. Yet Cianci, paraphrasing the local media's assessment, says his lawyer, Richard Egbert of Boston, "ripped through the main witness against me"--David Ead, who pleaded guilty in February 2000 to extortion and claims to have arranged $25,000 in bribes for Buddy--"like a chainsaw going through a piece of wood." That's why Cianci can't understand the strategy employed by another high-profile politician defendant, Ohio Congressman James Traficant, convicted in April of bribery, racketeering and fraud. "He's the guy who represented himself," Cianci says...
...page script as a combination of “traditional 16th-century choral singing, energetic Broadway dance numbers, cheesy pop ballads, 19th-century waltzes, and pretty much everything in between.” Les Phys also pokes fun at the Broadway genre, with a running Les Misérables gag and references to everything from The Sound of Music to “Gangsta’s Paradise” in the song lyrics. Heller reflects this playfulness in dance sequences that parody famous Broadway scenes. “There’s a definite West Side Story moment...
...clown has to look around him and try to bring something contemporary, something with which people can connect. And that's one of the reasons that I created this gag. Rap is today. Rap is probably one of the biggest types of communication that we have in today's world. And also you cannot go wrong, because if you like rap, then you're going to like the gag. If you don't like rap, then you're going to like the gag because it makes...
...cutting cleverness, exposes character in the same harsh light the movie uses to third-degree the actors' faces, and, often, is paraphrased later for a residual kick. (The movie's dialogue structure couldn't be tighter if you poured a quart of scotch down its throat.) The 20-year gag about the playwright was that he had sold out, gone soft: "Odets, where is thy sting?" Well, it's here...
Hentoff: The USA Patriot Act has a very chilling effect on freedom of speech. The FBI can come to a bookstore or library and find out what people who are labeled ‘suspicious’ are reading and buying. And there’s a gag order so the librarians and booksellers can’t say that they’ve provided this information. The press has really been asleep on that...