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...year battle over toxic waste at Love Canal reached an anticlimax as New York State settled a $630 million lawsuit against Occidental Chemical Corp. for a bargain $98 million. Occidental's corporate predecessor, Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp., buried 22,000 tons of toxic waste near the Niagara Falls neighborhood from 1942 to 1953. Most of the town was evacuated in the mid-1970s when the contamination was widely reported. Despite the settlement today, Occidental's problems are far from over: many individual suits, as well as a federal action, brought against the company over Love Canal continue to percolate...
Sean O'Brien is the sort who calls a hooker "ma'am." His wife admits he deals with "the most awful people." Serial killers, murderers, thugs and the like. "With some," he says, "you have to dig a little deeper to find the good in them." But O'Brien, 37, is the sort of lawyer who will drive 300 miles across Missouri from his home in Kansas City to see clients. Especially those on death row. Especially if he believes they're innocent...
...movie and television contracts. Connie Chung and Barbara Walters rushed to book the Heidi story for their TV newsmagazine shows this week. Heidi announced that she was prepared to write a tell-all book for any publisher who will pay her $1 million, the equivalent of 666 2/3 hooker engagements. It is also possible that any number of Hollywood figures and studios would pay her more than that to keep her mouth shut...
After a few more pleasantries, HEIDI agrees to send over one of her girls -- a trial run, as it were. When HEIDI departs, DETECTIVE LEE of the Beverly Hills police department turns off the hidden tape recorders and video camera. Three hours later, Heidi's hooker, "SAMANTHA," arrives, whereupon LEE $ receives a "prostitution violation" (solicitation) and duly arrests her. Next day the cops and their dogs come to call in Benedict Canyon...
...overload. His next show, On the Air, was a heavy-handed TV satire just slightly to the left of WKRP in Cincinnati. But the old, weird Lynch is back in HOTEL ROOM, an HBO trilogy of stories, two of them directed by Lynch from scripts by Barry Gifford. A hooker (Glenne Headly) is caught in a psychological sparring match between a seedy customer and his mysterious friend; a husband (Crispin Glover) tries to rescue his bereaved wife from madness during a power blackout. The dialogue has the evocative spareness of Pinter, and Lynch's control of mood -- menacing, mesmerizing...