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...undergraduate, Blackmun sang in theHarvard Glee Club. He graduated summa cumlaude in mathematics in 1929. An imposingprofessor named Bart Leach coined Blackmun'sHarvard Law School nickname, "Ol' Blackhouse," bymisreading his name. He graduated from HarvardLaw School (HLS) in 1932. After clerking for ajudge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Blackmunpracticed law privately for nearly two decades...
With Shakespeare in Love, we find Fiennes as the title character searching for a muse to stir up his creative juices. Paltrow is just the ticket as she employs the ol' Victor/Victoria trick to gender bend her way onto the stage and into Fiennes' heart. The adultery angle doesn't really do it for me, but Tom Stoppard, the screenwriter, deftly weaves Shakespeare's elegant language with his own poetic words. If the Scarlet Letter duo don't affect you, at least the verbal swordplay will keep you interested till...
...months after the singer's death, the FBI has released its 1,300-page Frank Sinatra file to the public. With Ol' Blue Eye's affinity for gangsters already well known, much of the file's content--his various connections with Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Sam Giancana and a list of assorted mobsters--comes as little surprise...
...Most of all, though, he has pulled off the trick of earning a reputation as a fiscal conservative while delivering federal goodies to South Carolina: money to deepen the Charleston Harbor, new veterans' clinics and a map full of roads and bridges. "Whenever anybody needed anything, they came to ol' Fritz," he boasts...
...week before the election, ol' Fritz is in a tussle with bounding Bob, who wants to close up that pork barrel so tight that he votes against projects that benefit his own district. "He resents the government," says Hollings. "Ask him what has he done in Washington in the past six years but whine and complain and holler pork...