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Charged with sexual assault against a 16-year-old girl in his 1992 campaign, as well as obstruction of justice, Congressman Mel Reynolds was indicted in his home state of Illinois. State and federal investigators have also been examining the freshman Democrat's failure to register a nonprofit foundation and disclose the existence of campaign accounts, one of which held...
...judge freed Mel Reynolds on his own recognizance after the first-term Chicago Congressman showed up in court to answer a 20-count indictment for statutory rape, child pornography and other charges. Reynolds -- a former Rhodes Scholar once seen as "the Great Black Hope of Chicago politics," according to TIME reporter Julie Grace -- lashed out at the indictments as the products of a publicity-seeking local prosecutor and a racist justice system. But Grace says his case will probably slide further downhill tomorrow when an alleged accomplice goes to court: Edward "Eddie" McIntyre, a Chicago water department employee...
Congressman Mel Reynolds was indicted on a laundry list of prurient offenses, including the charge he had sex with an underage campaign volunteer. The Chicago Democrat and former Rhodes Scholar faces 19 counts of child pornography, sexual assault, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, obstruction of justice and unlawfully communicating with a witness. Reynolds, who's been under investigation since June, denies all -- and says his now-18-year-old accuser's a lesbian who once practiced Satan worship. The ride can only get wilder, says TIME Chicago reporter Julie Grace, who notes Reynolds is also being chased...
Hollywood's summer officially began last weekend with the box-office sure thing Maverick, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and the lead from the '50s TV version, old Bret (or was it Bart?) Maverick himself, James Garner. This week a live-action take on The Flintstones debuts, with John Goodman and Elizabeth Perkins as Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell as Barney and Betty Rubble. Later this summer, Lassie will bark her way back into your heart, and Wyatt Earp will gallop across the wide screen. The Little Rascals, based on the old movie shorts...
...movies will do you any harm, and one actually succeeds pretty well. The best (and worst) you can say about Maverick is that it does the job -- it allows you to spend a perfectly agreeable evening without making you feel completely stupid or totally conned. The film offers us Mel Gibson as a new Bret Maverick, the Western gambler, as well as the old TV Maverick, James Garner, now playing a wry frontier sheriff. These two guys can make you smile contentedly even when the script is wandering and they're just sort of standing around waiting for its next...