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...blip. Ollie's popularity, like that of his President, was not built of "issues." Critic David Denby, in a grumpy review of "Ollie North, the Movie" for the New Republic, theorizes that Ollie's wild popularity is attributable to his perfect -- i.e., all-American but ambiguous -- Hollywood face. Fine, grant the premise. But if you do, you are confirming that what we are dealing with is not a political but a cultural, perhaps an anthropological phenomenon. Those who think Olliemania signifies a nation rising to Mussolini (or Nathan Hale) are apt to see their paranoia (or exaltation) disappointed...
...drilling has not come easily to Poindexter: he has grumbled to friends that he considers the hearings a politically motivated show to be stoically endured. He is more worried about the investigation conducted by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. Though Poindexter will testify this week under a grant of limited immunity, Walsh could still indict him on the basis of evidence gathered separately. Friends say Poindexter believes he is indeed in danger of indictment...
...believed. He has already been caught in a lie he told to Justice Department investigators before he was fired from the NSC staff last fall, and doubts about his testimony to Congress may eventually have to be resolved by a trial jury. Though North will testify under a grant of limited immunity, which ensures that nothing truthful he says this week can be used against him, he can still be prosecuted on the basis of other evidence collected by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. In the view of legal experts, the testimony of witnesses to the Iran-contra committees has provided...
...shoulders. For How Will I Know, she wears just a yard or so of slink swank but still upstages the mod-art gashes of color and moves like the cuddliest disco dervish. The new video for I Wanna Dance with Somebody (directed, like How Will I Know, by Brian Grant) underlines Houston's chameleon charm. In one scene she reprises her Saving All My Love role; in another, she does a Tina Turner shimmy; throughout, she bops till any other mortal would drop...
...well-practiced "I don't recall." While cameras clicked, Hall sat pertly at the table, often whispering to her lawyer and punctuating her answers with a curt "sir" stapled at the end. When Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen said he did not think North was entitled to a grant of immunity in exchange for his testimony, Hall objected. "I think that Colonel North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights that you yourself do, sir." Surprised, Cohen paused, then replied, "I understand that. I'm not entitled to immunity . . . I don't think anybody...