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...that the scandal has cost Boston's Catholics. In confidential settlements intended to avoid any whiff of publicity, the church, starting in 1994, gave $15 million to a group of victims molested by Geoghan. In one instance, according to the Boston Globe, a single family got $400,000 to hush up the sexually explicit phone calls Geoghan made to the children. And there are at least 120 more claims pending against Geoghan and a dozen other Boston priests that could jack up the total to $100 million...
That may sound, at first, like a lot of hush money. Individual payments in the range of $50,000 to $300,000 will be parceled out to the 86 Geoghan victims on a sliding scale of severity: more for rape, less for a flash of nudity. Yet the cash doesn't go far. In 1992 David Gagnon, 37, quietly settled his suit for three years of sexual molestation by the Rev. Michael Doucette, one of two active Portland, Me., priests suspended March 9. After paying his legal bill, typically one-third of the total award, Gagnon netted $63,000. That...
...error” when it was called to her attention back in 1988. Instead, she worked with her attorneys to develop a confidential arrangement in which the author whose work Goodwin had plagiarized was paid a substantial sum upon agreement to remain hush...
Ryosuke Hashiguchi's Hush! quietly made its way to Cannes last year, but it may yet do brisk box office around Asia. Think of it as a reworking of Madonna's The Next Best Thing, only better: this version swaps tack for tact. Hashiguchi, the Japanese director of many gay-themed films, doesn't play the camp for lame laughs but to showcase family values...
...kernel of Hush!, its conscience, is delivered in one zestful 10-min. sequence. The three characters' families gather in Katsuhiro's living room for a confrontation over his relationship with Asako. The nine relatives in the room, framed together like a painting, each get to voice their concerns, prejudices and, in Asako's case, undying love (for both men). Hashiguchi's passive, distant lens is the perfect partner for their very active dysfunction. Hush! is felicitously titled. Wry and endearing, it makes the right noises but doesn't shout about...