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This punkette is no Olivia Newton-John in spikes. The ingenue, Jackie Mullins, is played by a mysterious little dynamo named Jo Kennedy, who looks strikingly like Princess Di dressed by Bette Midler and has a powerful but musky soprano voice. Her hushed way of speaking is haunting as well. She leaves Ruby Keeler and all the namby-pamby ingenues before her in the dust...
...candy. The difference lies in Armstrong's deadly satiric aim and her choice of targets. In attempting to make fun of the awkward staginess of giant musical production numbers, she produces routines which transcend that awkwardness, so that one can really imagine Julius and company breaking into song sporadically. Jo Kennedy and Ross O'Donovan play their characters not as stereotypical angry young punks, but as lonely eccentrics, breathing life into Jackie and Angus...
Brazil's President João Figueiredo, for bringing his country a long way toward democracy...
Convicted on other charges were Harrelson's wife Jo Ann and Elizabeth Chagra, the wife of Convicted Drug Smuggler Jamiel (Jimmy) Chagra. Just prior to Wood's death, Chagra was awaiting trial for narcotics dealing before Judge Wood, known as Maximum John for his stiff sentences. Chagra allegedly paid Harrelson $250,000 to do the killing. Now serving 30 years for drug trafficking, Chagra will be tried next month for murder and conspiracy...
There is no doubt that Kennedy is concerned about his children. The 1980 campaign, which raised the dual specters of assassination and the 1969 drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, was, as one family friend said, "torture and torment for those kids." Such ghosts would be certain to haunt a 1984 presidential campaign. Patrick, who suffers from asthma, was so worried about his father's safety during the 1980 campaign that Kennedy called him daily...