Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should not be in the movie. In King's book, she disappears as a teen-ager; Gilroy brings her back tediously to confront the issues involving her father's death. She should have stayed in the void. Leigh's Selena is a whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking caricature of a journalist, who spends the majority of her scenes complaining. Jennifer Jason Leigh has her moments with Selena, especially in the epiphany scene on the ferry, but for the most part Leigh's acting skills are wasted by the script. She just reprises her addiction roles from "Dorothy Parker and the Vicious...
Most of what is known about Asahara was uncovered by Shoko Egawa, a widely respected journalist whose book on Asahara and his movement came out in 1991. According to Egawa, Asahara was born Chizuo Matsumoto in 1955 on Kyushu, one of Japan's main islands, just south of Honshu. At birth he was sightless in one eye and purblind in the other, so his father, a craftsman who made tatamis (straw mats), sent him at age six to the city of Kumamoto, where he could attend a subsidized school for the blind. There a child with any sight...
...Buruma, the journalist and author, has written several books about Asia...
...Savannah these days, when people talk about "the Book," they are referring not to the Bible but to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the best-selling suspense yarn by journalist John Berendt. The true account of a notorious 1981 Savannah homicide case, the book is now in its 46th printing and three weeks ago, passed the one-year mark on the New York Times' best-seller list. It has been translated into six languages, including Norwegian, is being developed as a movie by Warner Bros., and has sparked a tourist boom in the genteel town of Savannah...
...loving retirees and teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case. But, Bellafante says, its host of eccentric characters amounts...