Word: randolph
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...from a talented cast, which could thrive in a difficult medium. While the whole cast was strong, a few were especially worthy of note. Harvard alum Jon Matthews '84 played a slyly naive New York journalist, with a humor and style that is often believable, though sometimes overdone. John Randolph, of Prizzi's Honor fame, brilliantly portrayed an "authentic," folksy political fossil who "holds court" with wry witticisms and hackneyed observations. Finally, Richard Kind of TV's Spin City and Samantha Bennett colorfully reflected the vanity, insecurity and ambition that consume the reporters and their reporting...
...latest chapter in the life of PATTY HEARST, she's a novelist. Murder at San Simeon, written with fellow rebel blue blood Cordelia Frances Biddle, is the story of a death on the property of granddad William Randolph Hearst. "My parents never talked about him," says the novelist. "Except that he liked animals and Citizen Kane wasn't about him." Meanwhile, F. Lee Bailey, who defended Patty--a.k.a. terrorist Tania--in the 1970s, has his own book idea. According to Variety, it will feature O.J. Simpson and Hearst, who he says breached attorney-client privilege by badmouthing...
Fame is often difficult for parents to cope with; but surely it imposes upon them an obligation where their children are concerned. A lot of illustrious parents have produced unhappy offspring. Winston Churchill, himself a neglected child, did not do well with his profligate boozehound son Randolph. On the other hand, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis raised sane and decent children against what, one guesses, were considerable odds. Bill and Hillary Clinton, whatever their private shortcomings, seem to be faring well in giving their daughter a constructive, intelligent upbringing...
...handful of scientists have attempted to study the possibility that praying works through some supernatural factor. One of the most cited examples is a 1988 study by cardiologist Randolph Byrd at San Francisco General Hospital. Byrd took 393 patients in the coronary-care unit and randomly assigned half to be prayed for by born-again Christians. To eliminate the placebo effect, the patients were not told of the experiment. Remarkably, Byrd found that the control group was five times as likely to need antibiotics and three times as likely to develop complications as those who were prayed...
DIED. LYLE TALBOT, 94, character actor; in San Francisco. His hard-edged good looks got him cast as the heavy in Golden Age Hollywood--and when they softened, as friendly neighbor Joe Randolph on TV's surreally suburban Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet...