Word: leone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spotlight may soon shift to Haiti. Leon Kellner, the U.S. attorney in Miami who prepared one of the two pending cases against Noriega, is concluding an investigation of Haitian Colonel Jean-Claude Paul for allegedly helping the Medellin cartel move cocaine into the U.S. Paul, who commands an infantry battalion in Port-au-Prince, is widely regarded as Haiti's most powerful military man. For more than a year Haitian exiles have suspected that the airstrip on Paul's ranch, across a valley from Port-au-Prince, is a refueling point for U.S.-bound cargoes of cocaine. Paul's former...
...news account on March 2 incorrectly identified four doctors on a fact-finding team sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights. Drs. Bennett Simon and Leon Shapiro are associate clinical professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Dr. Jennifer Leaning is director of emergency services for the Harvard Community Health Plan. The leader of the team, H. Jack Geiger, is a professor of community medicine at the City University of New York Medical School...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, John Elson, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...generally wooden cameos. Thus Julius meets Tom Waits, who plays Elmore's sleazy brother, for about five minutes, or long enough to get ripped off by him. Then Julius meets Dr. John, who plays Elmore's sleazy brother-in-law, for another five minutes and is again ripped off. Leon Redbone gets about six minutes as a silent Canadian deputy who--guess what?--rips Julius off. Poor Joe Strummer doesn't even get the opportunity; he plays a security guard with no particular significance plot-wise and is on screen for maybe three minutes...
...doesn't take a genius to figure out that something is wrong here. Come on, who casts Buster Poindexter, Tom Waits, Leon Redbone, Dr. John and Joe Strummer in a movie and then doesn't let them play? (I mean, besides Alex Cox, who did the same thing in the even more pernicious Straight to Hell...