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...being wrongly connected with prominent legal cases, Dershowitz said this situation has happened before. In the past, he said, he has been identified as Larry Flynt’s attorney in cases where he was not, in fact, representing the Hustler magazine publisher. And after Sept. 11, he said, reporters called eagerly wanting to know whether he would be defending Osama bin Laden if a suit were ever filed against bin Laden. But Dershowitz said he had nothing of the sort in mind...
...TOPDOG/UNDERDOG A reformed street hustler, who now makes a living playing Abraham Lincoln in an arcade, shares a seedy room with his brother, who calls himself Booth. No point in trying to figure out the symbolism; just revel in Suzan-Lori Parks' haunting, fractured world of losers and even bigger losers. Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle (in an all too short off-Broadway run that could reach Broadway next year) gave riveting performances in one of Parks' strongest plays...
...skinny guy with a thin mustache and no teeth. To most folks, this Caesar Morales looked like a dreamer without a chance, some local hero or small-time hustler who thought he could ride a few bar room triumphs to success on the pro billiards circuit. Maybe he was Mexican, or Filipino?he didn't say and no one asked. This was the 1985 Red's 9-Ball Open in Houston, Texas, $10,500 to the winner, where billiards' best came to win, not make friends...
...quest to publish the magazine Hustler, Larry Flynt has encountered more than his share of controversy over the First Amendment...
PAUL MCCARTNEY and rapper Jay-Z don't appear, at first glance, to have loads in common: one is the pushing-60 former Beatle who sang "Life Goes On"; the other is the thirtysomething former street hustler who sang Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem). But both performed without material reward Saturday at the Concert for New York City in Madison Square Garden, a benefit for Sept. 11 attack victims that McCartney headlined. A Woodstock's worth of musicians did their thing, including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, the Who and Elton John. Short films by Woody Allen, Spike...