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...TIME TO KILL (July 12). John Grisham's update of To Kill a Mockingbird, about a black man on trial for killing a white rapist, looks like an earnest debate in unyielding close-up. The cast is led by three smart stars (Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey), so for now we'll give it a pass...
...Hush little baby, don't say a word, Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird don't sing, Papa's gonna buy you...Oh, I don't know...Europe?" --Bill Gates' lullaby to his new daughter, as imagined by Advertising Age columnist Bob Garfield, in USA Today...
DIED. JOHN MEGNA, 42, stage and screen actor best remembered for his child-star turn as the precocious youngster Dill in the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; of aids; in Los Angeles...
...April 7. Leftover Salmon on Sat., April 8. Gage on Sun., April 9. Our lady Peace on Tues., April 11. Last Poets on Wed., April 12. Upstairs: Curtain Society, Curious Ritual, St. Cimera and Partners in Flight on Thurs., April 6. Peter Wolf on Fri., April 7. Lyres, 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Johnny Black Trio and Drysdale on Sat., April 8. Lois on Sun., April 9. Technical Jed on Tues., April 11. The Last Poets on Wed., April...
...Colonel Forbin's Ascent" up the mountain to seek the advice of Icculus, the god of the Lizard people and author of the "Helping Friendly Book." As he climbs, rocks begin to fall all around him, taking the shape of the face of Icculus, who calls upon the "Famous Mockingbird" to fly to the castle and steal back the book for the Lizard people. Icculus delivers a warning, however, that "all knowledge seeming innocent and pure becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of avarice and greed." When Errand Wolf gets the book, he goes into the ghetto...