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...lifetime trying to move out of his father's shadow, yet he seems most comfortable within its famous outline. Strolling on a breezy autumn morning with workers amid the trucks, crates and loading docks outside a Detroit produce warehouse, Hoffa exudes a blue-collar bravado that would make Papa proud. A lawyer by training, Jim Jr. has to work hard to appear common, but he's got the stocky carriage, swagger and serious blue eyes that summon up the visage of the Teamster leader who disappeared 22 years ago. Perhaps even more important, as almost daily disclosures of scandal cripple...
...country star's first five songs were clogged with enough sex and violence to do Bone Thugs-N-Harmony proud. Brooks kicked things off with the country-rock song Rodeo ("Well, it's bulls and blood/ It's dust and mud"), followed that with the homicidal country stomp Papa Loved Mama ("Mama's in the graveyard/ Papa's in the pen") and also churned out a theatrical rendition of The Thunder Rolls, a song that ends with a woman reaching for a pistol to kill her cheatin' man ("Tonight will be the last time/ She wonders where he's been...
Woody Jenkins wanted to expose the election fraud that he says robbed him of a U.S. Senate seat from Louisiana. He might have succeeded--if it weren't for a felon named Papa Bear, an alleged prostitute and three witnesses who say they were paid to lie on Jenkins' behalf...
...votes was, in its execution, a model of civic propriety. But Jenkins' cause was dealt a serious blow last week when Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee walked away from the investigation he demanded after the election. They had learned that Jenkins hired a two-bit gumshoe named Thomas ("Papa Bear") Miller--a New Orleans operative with a long, sometimes violent criminal record. Papa Bear's job: to troll the New Orleans ghettos in search of "witnesses" to the fraud that supposedly delivered Landrieu her victory. Of the six such people interviewed by FBI agents, three said they were given...
...quiet and responsive Hawk, might add more to the play by being a more participatory and active central character. He's usually hard to read, and his portrayal of an innocent reacting to the world around him is made more difficult to perceive through his evident detachment. Yee, as Papa Fu, seems similarly self-involved, weakening the important second act by delivering his long speeches in a tone somewhat too flat...