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...eight months, Charles Griffith, 25, a theater projectionist, kept a vigil in a special-care ward of Miami Children's Hospital at the bedside of his comatose daughter Joy, 3. Injured last October when her neck became wedged in the footrest of a reclining chair, Joy suffered irreversible brain damage. Two weeks ago, after an evening visit with his daughter, Griffith fired two .32- cal. bullets into the child's heart, killing her. Griffith, who faces a first- degree murder charge, said last week, "I didn't want to see her hurt anymore. She couldn't eat, she couldn...
...Exchange identities with the desperately sought Susan (played by Madonna, whose affectlessness in the face of adversity may or may not constitute acting but is marvelously comic). Find herself pursued by one of organized crime's less organized branches. Fall into a loft and a love affair with the projectionist from a kung fu grind house. Find work as a gloriously addled magician's assistant. Get mistaken by the police for a prostitute. In other words, there is more to Roberta's modest attempt at an afternoon's adventure than she bargained...
...United States must abandon its projectionist policies and increase its monetary aid to developing nations to spur worldwide economic recovery, the head of a major Asian bank said yesterday...
...could be pushed farther. Witness the NRA--for years, all it has had to do is wave its mailing lists under Congressmen's noses and support for every gun-control bill has mysteriously dried up. Labor union groups have generated support ton the most idiotic measures--witness the projectionist domestic-content bill, which even The Crimson opposes, and yet is supported by nearly every major Democratic Presidential candidate. And when Ms. Idelson refers to Ellen McCormack, the pro-lifer who ran for President, she should remember the anti-war activists who ran for elected office during the Vietnam...
...told me he'd already seen the film on videotape and that it was excellent," says Winkler. "At the same time, they were running it in British pubs and charging admission." Producer David Wolper says that after he completed the picture This Is Elvis, he found that "a projectionist in Chicago was copying the second reel of my movie while he was showing the first reel...