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...recent wave of hype began last year with his defense of hotel magnate Leona Helmsley. With the release of Reversal of Fortune, the film in which actor Ron Silver portrays Dershowitz defending Claus von Bulow, the feisty professor's public recognition level rose another notch...
...real Alan Dershowitz, the man behind the hype...
...much of the optimistic talk emanating from Washington is warranted and how much of it is hype from an Administration and Congress eager to justify the expenditure of billions of dollars at a time of budget crunches, rising taxes and widespread anger at government? Those on the front line of the war on drugs -- the beleaguered law-enforcement officers, the overworked drug counselors, the terrified residents of crack-infested neighborhoods -- are far from positive that the "war" is going all that well...
...Among the high points: Lynch himself in a hilarious cameo as Agent Cooper's half-deaf boss; Nadine, Big Ed's one-eyed wife, emerging from a coma with the mind of a 16- year-old and the strength of an ox; and one very spooky giant. Cut the hype, lower the expectations: Twin Peaks is not the second coming. But it is a damn fine TV show -- playful, unnerving and, despite all the mystical mumbo jumbo, more involving than any soap opera since the early days of Dallas...
That's the formula WCBS in New York City used last week to hype its ratings in the November sweeps, local-news category, when it scheduled a three-part series on infidelity. What with baleful budget problems, an enigmatic mayor and the onset of holiday anxieties, it might be argued that New Yorkers didn't need something else to worry about. But the infidelity stakes seemed almost comic relief, a list to be swapped and talked about by the regulars in the fitness centers or the bars...