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When the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series in 1919, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis barred the guilty players for life. This courageous decision helped usher in a new era of popularity and prosperity for baseball, as public confidence in the game was restored. The same courage is needed now...
"What you will see is no illusion," Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino told jurors in a packed Los Angeles courtroom. "These were not deaths in which someone can get up and wipe the bloody-looking catsup off their faces . . . They were very, very real deaths." Indeed, said D...
Landis and four associates face charges of involuntary manslaughter in the trial that opened last week in Los Angeles Superior Court. Yet the movie industry itself seemed be in the dock as D'Agostino, denouncing the defendants' conduct as "outrageous," declared, "We do not tolerate this type of behavior in...
More important, the anthology shows have largely delivered on their creative promise: they have brought imagination, excitement and stylistic diversity to weekly series fare. The clinkers may outnumber the winners by a wide margin, but the high points--many from feature directors taking an unaccustomed fling at TV--have been...
More wise-butt Americans abroad. Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are State Department employees sent to Afghanistan as decoys for a pair of real spies. En route, they brazen their way in and out of scrapes, make poo-poo jokes and just about start World War III. Chase has made...