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Shortly after midnight the next night, Byrne encountered Trombly, Leahy and other friends as they left another gathering at the apartment. The prosecution and its witnesses have said that Byrne again hurled profanities at Leahy, making her weep, while the defense has said the officer spoke politely to her out of a spirit of concern...
...YORK—I’ve developed a strange addiction to watching C-SPAN after midnight. I used to only watch Manhattan public access when I got the after-twelve TV craving—specifically “Spic ’n’ Spanish,” the saga of Big Al, a young Puerto Rican man who goes clubbing Monday-Sunday in pursuit of a perfectly shaped female ass to capture on his camcorder. Which of course, he’ll never find. No, instead Big Al has all sorts of other adventures, chasing women down...
...charming night when the Republicans called the police on the Democrats. I watch the meat of the debate, a reminder that the issues are more than: Are you with us or not? Are you American or not? It breaks down to 300 pages of pension bill text cut after midnight, it makes it down to tens of billions of pension funds gone in a flurry of Hill police, it breaks down to abuse of aviation authority in using planes to get Democrats back in the Texas House...
DIED. JOHN SCHLESINGER, 77, Oscar-winning British director with an acidulous touch; after weeks of deteriorating health; in Palm Springs, Calif. Schlesinger (above) helped define swinging London in all its flash and falseness in Darling, which made Julie Christie a star. His U.S. film debut, the 1969 Midnight Cowboy, was the only X-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar and the first of the gay director's several films dealing with homosexuality. His visual style often strained unduly to make editorial points, but he knew the fears that eat at smart people. This made him the right...
...Died. John Schlesinger, 77, Oscar-winning British director famous for edgy dramas examining human frailty; in Palm Springs, California. Schlesinger is best known for his gritty 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman as an ailing con man and Jon Voight as the naive cowboy of the title who becomes a gigolo to survive in New York City. Schlesinger's 1976 thriller Marathon Man, about a college student on the run from a former Nazi, also featured Hoffman. He said of the director: "Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet, 'We will never see the likes of him again...