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Absolutely, positively not to be missed is Wishman's transsexual mock-documentary, "Let Me Die a Woman." The film follows the patients of one Dr. Leo Wollman. A minister, a psychologist, a sex-therapist and a surgeon who looks like he could repair your 1972 Gremlin, Wollman reads his cue cards very well. A sad portrait of the third sex, the film asks, and attempts to answer, "What, who and why are transsexuals?" Wishman says that she "felt so sorry for these people" and "felt as if she had exploited them." But then quickly counters with the fact that...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Harvard Welcomes the Uncrowned | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

Sunday the Scooter will be in Cooperstown, to be honored along with the late manager Leo Durocher and Phillie fireballer Steve Carlton. They will join the 216 players, managers, umpires, executives and Negro League stars elected to the Hall of Fame since 1936. In its august glamour, this citation is a combination Nobel Prize for phys ed and Palm Springs retirement home. Rizzuto will surely feel he belongs there. But does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Baseball: Willie, Mickey and...the Scooter? | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Society now is all too ready to blame the victim, while simultaneously making a victim of the perpetrator. Leo Braudy, author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, says "The celebrity is constantly being told how great and wonderful he is by a phalanx of yes-men and supporters, so his sense of self-justification is so much stronger. In O.J.'s mind and in his so- called suicide note, he is the victim." Before this is over, Nicole will be the bitch who ate Brentwood and asked for everything she got. As for O.J? He was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: the Victim, You Say? | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...move is intended to bring together the humanities disciplines and encourage intellectual work, says English department chair Leo Damrosch...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: What Harvard Will Do With Its $2.1B | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...burden you further. I simply have a point about nice guys, you know, those who are supposed to always finish last. For one thing, Leo Durocher, Who coined that nasty saying, is known for no other quote. Yogi Berra has more ideas in circulation than Durocher...

Author: By Hal Eskesen, | Title: A Letter of Advice to New Graduates | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

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