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...Unabomber began the epistolary striptease that in the end brought him down. Using, as was his custom, the madman's we, he wrote to the New York Times, taunting his hunters. "It doesn't appear that the FBI is going to catch us anytime soon," the letter said. He wrote to an earlier victim, Yale professor David Gelernter, saying, "If you had any brains, you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world, and you wouldn't have been dumb enough to open...
...line between a programming genius and someone headed out the door for a station manager's job in Reno is, of course, notoriously indistinct. And Littlefield has had his share of bad ideas (remember Madman of the People?). Kevin Bright, an executive producer of Friends, recalls that Littlefield early on thought the series needed an older regular to counterbalance the twentysomething stars. The producers disagreed. "Another network executive might have said, 'No! I want this older character.' But Warren trusted our instincts and went with...
NEAR THE END OF THE MOOR'S Last Sigh (Pantheon; 434 pages; $25), a madman holds the novel's narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, prisoner. The captor, an old but rejected friend of Zogoiby's late, flamboyant mother, demands a history of her family before killing its teller. "He had made a Scheherazade of me," Moraes writes. "As long as my tale held his interest he would let me live...
Grancio not only contained Foyle on defense, but was an offensive madman. Grancio obviously was not intimidated to shoot over Foyle, who is ranked eighth in the country in blocked shots...
...directing that went into "Othello" seems to have been a question of caprice rather than care. However, director David Levine is not a madman with connections; everything strange in the production contributes to an overall distance between the audience and the stage. The questionable acting is probably intended to prevent the audience from identifying with any characters; and the annoying music, projections, and other directorial decisions all alienate the audience from a once familiar play...