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...make Monroe the only real character, surrounded by bloodless composites like the Psychiatrist, the Senator and Rick, an ex- husband, forecloses any dramatic tension. (Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?) Marilyn's life was larger than life, but her opera is as stupefying as her film debut, Scudda-Hoo! Scudda...
...street name Strike -- is their foreman. Or scoutmaster, or baby-sitter; one of his clockers, Horace, 13, spends his time leafing wistfully through a catalog of kids' toys. Strike is only 19 himself, a scrawny fellow with a stutter and a bleeding ulcer that he treats with vanilla Yoo-Hoo. But he's smart; smart enough to know not to wear gold, not to trust anyone, not to get greedy and not to do product, because cocaine messes you up. He has $21,000 in cash stored around town, and he tells himself that this is his leaving-town fund...
WIRTH: The massive scramble to get the list of who bounced checks, that corridor full of reporters. It was ya-hoo! It was like we were feeding all these people into a chute, and at the end of the chute was the list, and everybody was dashing to get it. Reporters were lusting after it. They know more about how the House bank works than how campaign-finance reform works...
...heart drug hit the market in 1987 in a blinding flash of pitchmen, promotion and public relations hoo-ha. The product of biotech breakthroughs, TPA was touted as clearly superior to the competition, a clot-busting drug called streptokinase, on the market for 15 years. Though TPA (for tissue plasminogen activator) is 10 times as expensive as the older drug, the majority of U.S. doctors bought the pitch, and the new drug became the favored method of breaking up clots in heart-attack victims. Then last week an international team of researchers reported what some doctors had suspected all along...
...Vivien Leigh. And her lover and frequent co-star, the great Shakespearean actor Sir Robert Vane, would need no letter of introduction to Laurence Olivier. Do we recognize bits of the brassy showman Billy Rose? Is that lovable, tormented, red-haired American comedian a scrap of Danny Kaye? Yoo-hoo, Sir Ralph...