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...case against Lee isn't dead yet. Government witnesses have testified about Lee's "pattern of deceptive behavior," and there is still the very troubling matter of those missing tapes. But the cracks in this case have been wide enough to allow critics to call it racist and Lee a scapegoat, and to provoke nostalgia for the old days, when foreign enemies were foreign enemies and accused spies got nailed to the wall...
...rooting for his characters--Young Turks leaving a major financial firm to strike out on their own--Chernuchin, a former Law & Order writer and executive producer, stacks the show's morality in their favor like a Carnegie Deli sandwich. Their former boss (Moffat) is a Harvard-accented, corrupt and racist toff who would twirl his mustache if he had one. "Only a child," he purrs, "would think that the world doesn't work with a wink and a nod and a handshake between old pals smoking Cohibas." His grandson and the renegades' leader, Ditto (George Newbern), is Bull's Luke...
...suddenly living alone, in his own place near Orlando. "I feel completely overwhelmed," he told a Stanford friend after his first pro tournament. Just before the 1997 Masters, an article in GQ quoted him telling a stream of off-color, racist and homophobic jokes. Woods thought the remarks had been off the record. Once burned, he has been cool with reporters ever since...
Flash forward. In the new film The Replacements, union members are portrayed as rich, uncaring, racist, sucker-punch-throwing goons. And the nonunion fellows who take the strikers' jobs--once they were called scabs--are ordinary Joes who are there not for the money but for the love of a job well done...
...also an eloquent comment on the depth of tribal enmity among the citizens of the Jewish state. Iraqi-born Rabbi Yosef is also the spiritual leader of Israel's third largest party, Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party representing Sephardic Jews, who immigrated to Israel from Arab countries and suffered racist treatment at the hands of the Ashkenazi (of European origin) elite...