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...actually been scalped out front. Inside, all previous scores and rankings have been dropped. Everything now depends on which poems the judges like tonight. We draw first up; it's disappointing, but we're confident. We wait through the band and featured poets. (During the slam, a slam veteran, Patricia Smith, the columnist who was forced to resign from the Boston Globe for fabricating stories, had brought an audience to tears when she concluded a reading with the lines, "Man did not give this gift to me. Man cannot take it away...
...consumed with sexual longing, but here it is the ultimate form of masochism: a desire to be killed. The erotic charge sizzles in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art, a pensive throwback to the drug-and-sex angst of the '70s. It tosses Ally Sheedy into heavy, fraught clinches with Patricia Clarkson and Radha Mitchell. (Mitchell: "It's hot in here." Sheedy...
...dustup over Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle would have been seen as much ado about nothing.[2] The only reason anyone cared whether Barnicle, a white male, had recycled--without attribution--a few one-liners from comedian George Carlin was that only a few weeks ago another Globe columnist, Patricia Smith, a black female, had been forced to resign for making up stories...
...hasn't been a very good summer for columnists at the Globe. Six weeks ago, the newspaper fired popular columnist Patricia Smith for making up 48 different characters in her columns; now Barnicle, 54, gets caught with 10 stolen jokes for a column of 38 one-liners. It can be argued that Barnicle's crime is of a lesser degree--more an act of slothful corner cutting than corrupt journalism. Should he fall, many believe it will have less to do with the Carlin incident than an arrogance that has long irked colleagues--and the need for the paper...
...That won't be much comfort to Patricia Smith, another popular Globe columnist who was fired last month for a similar, if more serious charge of fabricating characters. Smith is a black woman; Barnicle a white male. Inevitably, the disparity of punishment will leave the Globe open to charges of racism. That was one of the reasons Storin and Taylor dithered for so long, which in turn caused the rival Boston Herald great glee: "What a bunch of idiots," they quoted one Globe staffer saying about his management's indecision...