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The baseball owners named Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as commissioner 73 years ago because they wanted an independent authority to restore integrity to The Game in the wake of 1919 World Series, which was intentionally thrown by members of the Chicago White Sox.
Then there are the books. Five. Then the clients: Anatoly Scharansky, Claus Von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken, Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, Penthouse, Frank Snepp, John Landis, John DeLorean, David Crosby, Patricia Hearst, the Tison brothers, various death row inmates, Rabbi Meir Kahane....There are more.
BLACK OR WHITE (Fox, Nov. 14, 8:30 p.m. EST). Michael Jackson's new video -- the first from his latest album, Dangerous -- has its broadcast-TV premiere following an episode of The Simpsons. Bart himself co-stars in the 11-minute film, directed by John Landis (Thriller.)
OSCAR. Sylvester Stallone, in his first intentional comedy since Rhinestone, shows a light step as a recovering gangster in John Landis' Prohibition-era farce. Doors slam, satchels are snatched, offspring spring up, puns run amuck. It's all inexcusable -- and irresistible.
Washington had previously seized some of Saddam's holdings as part of $1 billion of Iraqi assets that the U.S. froze after Iraq invaded Kuwait. The properties were connected with Anees Masoor Wadi, an Iraqi middleman who resided in a $3.5 million Beverly Hills home -- where his neighbors included actor...