Word: godson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second half of the movie, in which killing after killing jars any viewers the movie's beginning may have put to sleep. Dominic Prizzi contracts Irene (whom he doesn't know is Charlie's wife) to kill Charlie, with whom he has a jealous rivalry. Don Prizzi tells his godson that he wants him to take over the family. The Don rids to the family of Dominic by shipping him-off to Las Vegas with a set of sterling golf clubs. Charlie decides to kill Dominic, just to make sure it's not a trap...
...West Germany, Britain and the U.S., including a Czech defector, General Jan Sejna, whose public remarks were the basis for the assertions about Strauss and Spiegel. Among other potential witnesses: a Soviet bloc defector who was involved in efforts to defame Strauss, and George town University Professor Roy Godson, author of a recent book on Soviet disinformation. Goldsmith said last week that he will publish a book, to be written by British journalists, based on the evidence he accumulated. Says he: "Prime responsibility for stopping Soviet abuse of our freedom of the press lies with the media themselves...
...over Sakhalin Island, hurling 269 civilians to their deaths in the Sea of Japan. On the anniversary, the inevitable conspiracy theories are attracting worldwide, and often uncritical, attention, perhaps more than at any other time since the incident. Some of the allegations, contends Roy Godson, a U.S. intelligence expert at Washington's Georgetown University, are a result of "a massive, overt disinformation campaign" by the Soviet Union...
...Live in Concert; the junkie serenade recalls Pryor's role in his 1973 melodrama Some Call It Loving. It can also be tough to maintain your underdog snarl when you've just signed a movie contract worth $40 million. (This is a pose Pryor's sassy "godson," Eddie Murphy, avoided in his delirious HBO concert last month, the better to strut his glitter and gift for mimicry.) But even back-burner Pryor is hot enough. Savor the funny bits on herpes, abortion clinics, nuclear holocausts and men's-room etiquette. And tune in next year...
...former Crimson catcher led Harvard in hitting this past season with a .426 average and was voted All-Eastern league and All-New England. Martelli was a four-year varsity starter for Harvard and is the cousin and godson of former Boston Red Sox star Tony Conigliaro...