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Scenes from contemporary Manhattan life: a leggy choreographer, who can swing the rent on her funky loft apartment only by sharing it with two gay male roommates, sprawls and stares, momentarily graceless in grief. One of them, who was also her collaborator, has died in a boating accident; the other, whose solace she craves, is not at home. Her boyfriend shows up, and she tries to send him away. Their sexual and romantic intimacy cannot begin to compare with the bond she felt toward the dead man who shared her work. She has never had -- is not sure...
...while wearing -- at the actor's insistence -- a shoulder-length black wig that brings to mind Laurence Olivier camping it up as Richard III. Fortunately, Malkovich has a gift for suggesting depths in inarticulate characters: the audience laughs with, not at, him when he says of his grief and drunkenness, "This has made me -- you know -- not as whatever as I usually am." In truth, he is much more whatever than ever. But Burn This prospers more from his talents than it suffers from his excesses, and a surprising number of its seemingly throwaway moments linger and ripen in memory...
...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
...Grief-stricken families are blessed with perhaps the most extensive media attention, so victims can charge far more in case of their death--to be paid to their estates of course. Reporters love to surround parents who have had children recently slain, probing the emotional impact of the story in a sensitive yet hard-hitting manner...
Eventually Lewis and his wife Julie bear their grief in different directions: she to a country cottage to live in solitude and play her violin, he no farther than the couch to numb himself with television and Scotch. He stirs periodically to walk to Whitehall, where he is a desultory member of a government subcommittee on, of all things, child development...