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...typical Mann noir is different. It rarely uses flashbacks. Most of the ganefs in Desperate and Railroaded! have no past to haunt them. The present is spooky enough. Like their movies, they exist in the now. They are what they do, and what is done to them: existential unheroes. Only rarely do they blame society for their scrappy status, as Joe does in Raw Deal: "And if you want to know what happened to that kid with the medal - he had to hock it at 16. He got hungry." The war, the defining event...
...tales of her time in London's Priory clinic for treatment for depression as an 18-year-old. Allen is trying to shrug it off. "I know what the British press are like, and if I wasn't honest about my past, then it would only come back to haunt me, as it has today," says Allen. "I don't feel ashamed of anything that I've done and I don't feel like I need to hide any of it. I just think it's a bit silly, really." But no one disputes that her life has been rocky...
...candidate for public office himself, in this year's race for Georgia Lieutenant Governor, Reed's squeaky clean, boy-next-door image came back to haunt him. After he started out a year ago with a huge lead in both the polls and fundraising over his relatively unknown opponent, Reed's connection to the Jack Abramoff congressional lobbying scandal unmasked the candidate who built his career on the issue of values as one who apparently had his own questionable values. And so it was that Tuesday Reed lost both his party and his religious conservative base in a humbling Republican...
...authorities, who hope to determine whether some donors have been promised places in the House of Lords in return for their generosity. Labour is not the only party under scrutiny, but the pledges of impeccable probity made when it came to power in 1997 are coming back to haunt it. Levy's arrest, said his lawyer, "was unnecessary, disproportionate and ... entirely theatrical." An instinct for showbiz partly explains his prominence. Success in the music industry moved Levy into exalted circles. He met Blair at a 1994 dinner party. A peerage - as membership of the Lords is called - followed three years...
...behind closed doors unsupervised. Glowing marble busts of members from generations past covered the walls.As the age-old parquet floor creaked sonorously under my feet, I couldn’t but think of what an unlikely set of circumstances had landed me in this most rarefied of spaces, a haunt solely dedicated to members of France’s five most elite academies—the first of which was founded in the 17th century by Cardinal Richelieu, and all of which are now grouped under a gilded cupola facing the Seine, ironically just steps away from where noisy tourist...