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...short answer is, he was seduced by the siren call of the media. Jackson was not the first (anyone remember Lance Ito?), nor will he be the last. But his was a particularly benign form of narcissism. He didn't allow cameras in the courtroom; he had no desire to see his face on television. As the antitrust trial of the century began two years ago, he was so skeptical of the press that they were refused special accreditation and had to queue up for hours to sit on a couple of rows of hard benches - first come, first served...
Sherri Spillane--Mickey Spillane's ex-wife and the talent agent who has represented Joey Buttafuoco, John Wayne Bobbitt, Tonya Harding, Kato Kaelin, Rudy from Survivor and Judge Ito impersonator Randall Tamayei--got the idea to sign Tony Enos, the guy who drove the Ryder truck. Actually, what happened was that Amanda Ripley, who sits down the hall from me, called Spillane and asked if she had signed anyone from the Florida scandal, which inspired Spillane to call Enos. So, really, it's a beautiful story about an intrepid reporter, a scrappy agent and democracy itself coming together to create...
...prospective jurors who were black, Teresi stopped them cold and seated a panel that has four black members out of 12, twice as many as veteran criminal attorneys say they have ever seen in any Albany trial. As a local lawyer puts it, "Teresi won't be another Lance Ito." For the sake of the police, the people of the Bronx and Kadiatou Diallo, he'd better not be. If this trial slides into chaos, there will be no justice and no peace...
Thanks to the opening band, Other Star People, it was not an entirely futile night. Sadly, the tight, focused and loud rock of this group, made up of former L7 member Jennifer Finch, Todd Phillips (formerly of the Juliana Hatfield Three), Xander Smith and Junko Ito, was lost on the mostly older crowd. The poppy Bis-like vocals and catchy rock stylings of compositions from their debut Diamonds in the Belly of the Dog, as well as their cover of the Police classic "Next To You" were frenzied, energetic and inspiring: in short, everything Echo and the Bunnymen were...
What's more, a sense of humor--even of irreverence--began to seep into religious imagery. Witness a marvelous ink painting of vegetables by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800). You can read it, with pleasure, as a supremely assured market still life (Jakuchu was, in fact, a vegetable wholesaler before he turned to painting full time). Gourds, melons, turnips, ears of corn and a shiitake mushroom surround an enormous forked white radish, lying as if in state on a basket. But as Singer points out, an educated 18th century Japanese would have recognized this as a parody of a familiar religious...