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...convinced his position is secure, at least with Providence voters. The mayor was leaving a family-outreach-center dinner when he happened upon one of the half-dozen or so politicians who may run against him. Cianci had left the 200 diners in hysterics with his jokes about a nun going to heaven and a "great-lookin' blond" who recently mistook him for a coat-check boy. The two men exchanged a quick, brusque handshake, but just out of earshot, Cianci muttered, "Try following that...
...Today." Media office sitcoms are well-worn NBC territory, but will it be "NewsRadio" or "Suddenly Susan"? The clips weren't exactly uproarious; most noteworthy were two cartoonish characters, a bimboish Hispanic host with a Charo accent and an inept weathercaster who also happens to be a nun. So we're going after the Latinos and the Catholics in the pilot - oh, they'll love it in Miami! (In other sitcom news, NBC has finally given up on introducing new comedies after "Friends," so in place of the next "Inside Schwartz," which we will sadly never see, will be "Scrubs...
...said, 'If this movie is going to be made, this is how it works.'" His stubbornness has paid off. Kaufman has a say in casting and editing decisions on the movies he owns and is even welcomed on the set, where the screenwriter is usually regarded like a nun in a brothel. And he gets repeat business. Spike Jonze, who directed Malkovich, also directed Adaptation, and Kaufman is working on another movie with Michel Gondry, the director of Human Nature...
...year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, both prostitutes. The girl had been raped. Whatever she earned on the streets she gave to her mother. I asked her whether she kept any money for herself, and she said she sometimes bought a sandwich. A nun who was with them told me, "Everyone talks about the plight of the rain forest. But what good is the rain forest if there are no children left to live...
None of this is to say the nuns weren't capable of abuse in their own way. They could be cruelly punishing in the classroom, wielding a mean ruler, taping a mouth shut--although they were generally punished harshly for such aberrations. Priests, guilty of far worse transgressions, were handled with kid gloves. The all-male power structure of the church employed the worst tactics of its secular counterparts: silencing victims, covering up crimes, shifting bad priests around like fungible account executives. Think if Father John Geoghan had been Sister Johanna Geoghan. Would she have been recycled from parish...