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...pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals that the defense team offered to have Simpson take a lie detector test at the outset, knowing full well that the prosecution would never agree to admit the results, whatever they were, into evidence. And he describes the moment when he realized that Simpson, due to turn himself in to the police, had vanished: "I don't think there was anyone in that room who didn...
...willing suspension of disbelief is necessary from the very outset of "A Family Thing," with its unlikely pairing of Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones as brothers. Unfortunately, an improbable premise is not the movie's only problem: despite the weight of its two lead actors, it ultimately fails to achieve any lasting emotional impact...
Although his competition for the job reportedly included such renowned conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Marek Janowski, Tilson Thomas was the favorite from the outset. He first guest-conducted the orchestra back in 1974, and over the years had led it more than 100 times. His easy and knowing way with music as disparate as Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, Ravel and Stravinsky ballets, and American music from Charles Ives to Steve Reich also pleased the search committee, as did the fact that Tilson Thomas is an American...
Though nobody focused on it at the time, the economic prospects for Whitewater were rapidly fading. Essentially an impulse purchase from the outset, the returns were never likely to be all that high. The original tract of 230 acres, for which they paid $203,000, was carved into 44 lots, whose combined list prices (which in practice would never have been realized) amounted to $459,000. With estimated development costs and interest of $93,000, less commissions and closing costs of 15% of sales revenue, the net proceeds would have been a maximum of $95,000 to be divided between...
...Party was founded at the St. Louis Convention of 1892. Among those who came together to form this agrarian empowerment movement: the Christian Women's Temperance Union, the Farmer's Alliance, the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor and the Christian Socialists. Yet almost from the outset, the Party was as negative as it was diversely constituted. Georgian populist Tom Watson, one of the Party's guiding lights, was infamous for such enlightened remarks as, "Did [Jefferson] dream that in 100 years or less...red-eyed Jewish millionaires would be chiefs of that [Democratic] Party, and that...