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...health becomes more important than anything and it's been a really rough three months for me." Within that span of time, Gretzky's mother and grandmother died. His wife Janet was reported to have bet in a gambling operation allegedly financed by Rick Tocchet, his assistant coach in Phoenix...
...THIS FAR: He's one of three nominees to play a celebrity from the 1950s (the others: Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line and David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck), but Hoffman dominates his film with an eerie force of personality as surely as Truman Capote commandeered Kansas when he was there researching his seminal book. Hoffman begins by impersonating the writer--nailing his droll, spectacular effeminacy--then infiltrates and inhabits...
...with a shoestring budget and local motels doubling as witness safe houses, officials realized they couldn't always live up to the protection promise. Unlike the federal witness-protection program for turncoat mobsters and cocaine kingpins, there is no reconstructive surgery, no house with a pool in suburban Phoenix. Baltimore authorities had to stretch their $400,000 annual budget in 2005 to accommodate 184 families in hiding--a few with as many as 11 members. Although some are relocated near family as far away as California, most are loath to leave Maryland and wind up languishing in motels just outside...
...Newspapers in general—and alternative ones like [Spare Change] and the Phoenix in particular—must reprint the cartoons in defense of free speech as well,” the editorial published today continues. “To do otherwise is to cower before fear and intimidation, and that is the complete antithesis of everything newspapers and journalists are supposed to stand...
...Once again, Gretzky responded to questions about his possible link to a gambling ring allegedly financed by his assistant coach with the Phoenix Coyotes, Rick Tocchet. New Jersey authorities have accused Tocchet, a New Jersey state trooper and another New Jersey man with running the multimillion-dollar operation. Gretzky's wife Janet is reported to have waggered more than $100,000 on football games through the ring. Gretzky indicated that he did not know about Janet's alleged sports gambling. "I've said what I said a week ago ? I'm not involved, and quite frankly, it's the last...