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...That was fine by Taylor, a father of five who hasn't drawn his gun in 26 years in the force. Now in his fourth year in Stratford, he's happy dividing his time between patrolling the highway and manning the station; happy for the locals to call him "Frank" on the streets and in the shops; happy to make his mark in small ways. Lately, he's been targeting the safety habits of pushbike riders: "You'll notice," he says, "the high ratio of helmet wearers in town...
...drive past, I can hear a gun battle somewhere--the deep rumble of U.S. military M-16s and the higher-pitch clatter of AK-47s. The gunfire is a momentary distraction for Wisam, my driver, who is telling me about yesterday's atrocity--66 people killed when a suicide bomber detonated himself in a crowded market in the Shi'ite neighborhood of Sadr City. Last year that giant slum was the safest district in Baghdad. Now I mentally add it to the list of neighborhoods I can enter only at great risk...
...Smoking Gun Continues to document interesting news (sample headline: "Six Skulls Found in Strippers Home") and get the occasional big scoop, like outing writer James Frey
...actress you are, it's tough to fake being sick when paparazzi have snapped you at a karaoke bar. The producers of LINDSAY LOHAN's film, Georgia Rule, have accused the young actress of malingering. In a letter delivered to Lohan's L.A. hotel and posted on the Smoking Gun website (gee, wonder who leaked that?), the CEO of Morgan Creek Productions said she was "a spoiled child" and "ongoing heavy partying is the real reason for your so called 'exhaustion.'" He threatened to seek damages from Lohan, 20, who plays an unruly teen in the drama opposite Jane Fonda...
...violence seared the pages of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels (the first, I, the Jury, was published that year), so they explode on the screen in Railroaded! In Mann movies, the broken bottle, not the gun, is the favored weapon of menace, perhaps because it's more sickeningly intimate. John Ireland, the film's primary thug, breaks a bottle and comes after Joe. Raymond Burr, Mann's inspired (and quite literal) notion of a heavy, had used one in Desperate, and he does it again in Railroaded!, breaking a bottle over...