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...impulsive action ensures Jefferson a date with Gruesome Gerty, the state's portable electric chair, even though his lawyer argues that the accused is incapable of premeditating a murder. "No, gentlemen, this skull here holds no plans," the defense claims. "What you see here is a thing . . . to hold the handle of a plow, a thing to load your bales of cotton, a thing to dig your ditches, to chop your wood, to pull your corn." In effect, Jefferson is not condemned to die like a man but be destroyed like a beast. Worse still, he believes that...
What, ladies and gentlemen, is stardom? Stardom is, you replace the most famous performer on a hot TV show -- as Bill Murray did in 1977 when Chevy Chase left Saturday Night Live -- and you effortlessly out-fame him. Stardom is, you top-line in the most popular comedy of its time, Ghostbusters. Stardom is, you seem to be yourself on screen and people love you. Stardom is, you've got two movies out at once -- your hit comedy Groundhog Day and the new crime drama Mad Dog and Glory -- so you are your very own multiplex festival...
...dying to make a speech, but didn't get to." Should the Academy award him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, he might take his cue from Judy Garland in A Star Is Born: walk onto the great stage, smile regally through the tears and declare, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mr. Jaye Davidson...
...never dated Amy Fisher," he deadpanned at the outset. "I fixed her car. I helped her with her homework. I never laid a hand on Amy Fisher." He praised his old network, NBC, for behaving "honorably and as gentlemen," then remarked, "What I will miss most are the back rubs from Irving R. Levine. The man is a master." A reporter asked if any of Letterman's familiar bits, like Stupid Pet Tricks, are still the property of NBC. "They own the rights to my old ice-dancing routine," he replied. When will his new show on CBS begin...
...GENTLEMEN: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently...