Word: geoffrey
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That would be a gesture familiar to Dr. Kevorkian, who has made defiance of the law a passion second only to suicide. "When the law itself is intrinsically immoral," says Kevorkian's irrepressible mouthpiece, lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, "there is a greater duty to violate the law." Yet this time around Kevorkian merely tiptoed past it. Fieger says the doctor isn't taking any credit for helping a desperate man die. He just wanted to watch...
...problem [that Vincent was there]. If it had been a formal interview, it may have been uncomfortable," Geoffrey Kerchner '93 said...
...years earlier, his elder brother, Geoffrey Wolff, had published his own memoir, The Duke of Deception, a remarkable account of life with their father Arthur Wolff, a loving, brilliant rogue who was a lifelong bankrupt, scamster and confidence man. "A bad man and a good father," Geoffrey wrote after he floated free of the wreckage his father had created. Tobias recalls that he admired Geoffrey's book but that some of the characterizations seemed jarringly out of key. Then his own book came out. It told of their mother's cross-country flight with him, leaving Geoffrey behind with Arthur...
...memory, however, there is Hollywood. Each brother sold his memoir to Warner Bros., and by coincidence, the same screenwriter, Robert Getchell, did both scripts. The Duke of Deception is still being sniffed by stars (Richard Gere is mentioned), but This Boy's Life hits the multiplexes this week. Geoffrey is silent about the film, but Tobias answers his phone cheerfully enough...
...friend to steal high school transcript forms, wrote glowing reference letters and actually succeeded in being admitted to the prestigious Hill School in Pennsylvania. Years after he and his brother had got to know and love each other again, he admitted the scam to the somewhat more proper Geoffrey, who, profoundly shocked and sure he was seeing a reincarnation of their calamitous dad, said in groaning despair, "Oh, Toby...