Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pacino steals the show as the head of a truly diabolical New York law firm that snags Keanu Reeves' hotshot Souhtern lawyer and quickly enmeshes him in a half-kinky, half-campy world of sin and decadence. Borrowing from The Firm and Rosemary's Baby without quite matching either in wit or originality, it tends to flag whenever Pacino's off screen. Fortunately, he's never away for long and treats us to a devilishly good time...
Demakis, a self-described "Liberal Democrat and pragmatist," is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and worked for 10 years as a tax lawyer in state government. During his two terms in the House, he has firmly established an allegiance to liberal allies--from pro-choice to gay and lesbian constituencies--in Boston and Cambridge...
...blackmail. He says that during a closed-door meeting with Kennedy, Johnson may have threatened to disclose J.F.K.'s dirty laundry, though Hersh doesn't know which laundry or even whether Johnson had anything on Kennedy at all. His main source? The late Hyman Raskin, a little-known Chicago lawyer and Democratic political operative. In interviews and an unpublished memoir, Raskin says that Kennedy had settled on Missouri Senator Stuart Symington as his running mate until Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn pulled him into that mysterious meeting...
...like a favorite gruesome fairy tale that you enjoy hearing over and over. "Daddy! Daddy! Tell us again about Lange and Vannatter!" Dunne does add detail and atmosphere, and recounts a few incidents that are fresh. In one of the book's most startling scenes, Barry Scheck, the defense lawyer who specializes in DNA evidence, takes Dunne aside and says that he is "haunted" by the Goldman family. "You know," Dunne quotes Scheck as saying, "in every job there are things to do that you don't want to do. I'm defending this guy." A few days later, Scheck...
...pioneer of the faux-Letterman gang was Australia's Steve Vizard, a lawyer turned comedian who was host of a late-night show down under for three years, starting in 1990. He had the Letterman repertoire down pat, introduc-ing bits with the same tongue-in-cheek flourish ("I have in my left hand... "). Staff members would even prep American guests on the show by telling them, "Just pretend you're on the Letterman show." Though critics hooted at the thievery, most Aussie viewers didn't get the references--until 1994, when the real Letterman show started airing in Australia...