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...film's wrap-up, which takes the idea of a know-it-all detective to one logical conclusion. A persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests more (and I'm not just talking about how every other scene starts with Arquette's legs and moves up). And Mulrooney's conflicted character gives us an occasional flash of honest hope: a P.R. exec in his brother's firm, he cannot stop wisecracking about the hypocrisy and yet, weak, himself gets caught up in lies...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back to Black | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...revamped its Late Show with two new, rotating hosts: Comedians Jeff Joseph and John Mulrooney. The duo will split the weekly duties until one, presumably, emerges as a hit. So far, these hapless winners of the Anyone Can Host contest look painfully unsure of what they are supposed to be doing; the abrasive Mulrooney's strategy is to assault guests and audience members as if they were hecklers at a midnight show at the Improv. The program's sole advantage is a virtual absence of promotional fanfare. "It didn't seem to make sense to herald it until we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Little Network That Might | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Student Counsel. In Pasadena, City College Freshman Edward Mulrooney was arrested after he tossed a bomb at his psychology teacher's house, damaged the front porch, left a note: "If you don't want your home bombed or your windows shot out, then grade fairly and put your assignments on the board-or is this asking too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...York's Democratic administration. Recently he served on a special committee, appointed by Governor Lehman to study ways and means of reducing noncompetitive civil service jobs, with such bigwigs as Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti (a classmate at Harvard), onetime New York State Commissioner of Correction Edward Mulrooney, and Mrs. Douglas Moffat, former president of the New York State League of Women Voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble in Harlem | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...week the eleventh annual race, off Bay Ridge shore, brought out a high-spirited and representative maritime crowd,"including snipping officials. Organizer Joseph Curran of the National Maritime Union. New York's onetime Mayor James J. Walker and wife. New York's onetime Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney. who acted as referee, and Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the U. S. Maritime Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Safety Race | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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