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...National Shrine of the Sacred Heart, asked to see him and was persuaded of Joseph's sincerity. "I wanted to make sure he wasn't a nut," says Angelo, whose shrine draws 100,000 pilgrims a year. He says he checked out Joseph's background but is keeping mum to maintain the preacher's mystique. He says, however, that the bishop has given his blessing...
...students the chance to buy fake New York State driver's licenses for $80 a pop. Many students refused to speak on the record about their brush with organized crime. Whether it was out of fear of reprisals from the mafia or from the Ad Board, students were keeping mum--in either case it's possible that students could end up in the Annenberg meat cooler...
...Monty Python boys began flouncing about in frocks, Australia's Barry Humphries donned a dress as Edna Everage, Melbourne housewife. His "one-woman" London shows turned Edna into a British institution. In her hilarious Broadway debut, the self-dubbed dame sings a bit and muses about her family (Mum's in a "maximum-security twilight home"), but mostly she chats with the audience--or picks on it (though "caringly"). Humphries, a gloriously gaudy "megastar," has timing as sharp as a knife pleat...
Mutchnick, Ball and Williamson are mum on how much of their characters' love lives audiences will see this season, and network execs' willingness to show air kisses among actual gay characters is vague and jittery at best. Weirdly, both Wasteland and Oh Grow Up have sent their gay men on dates with men who turned out to be straight. Williamson says Russell will have an active love life, but Ball and Mutchnick say they're not that interested in entering the bedrooms of their straight or gay characters. True, that's convenient. But in a sense, to focus...
...took a moment to flog Donald Trump for the Reform nod, and bash Buchanan's "revisionist history about WWII" for good measure. What, no words for Warren Beatty? The actor pulled a pretty good Hillary in Hollywood on Wednesday night, talking loud - "Is there no protest anymore?" - but staying mum about his own intentions. Beatty's liberal siphon could be as strong as Buchanan's conservative one, but only if he too jumps to the Reform party, which he doesn't sound too likely to do. Meanwhile, Mr. Big Lead might want to keep his eye on his own backyard...