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...decade ago, Shawn McClenahan had gone back to college after a couple of bad marriages. A pretty woman with blond hair and green eyes, she got a job as a phlebotomist, drawing blood from patients at Sacred Heart Hospital. But a rib pressing on a nerve was misdiagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome. After two surgeries on her wrists, McClenahan was on painkillers and unable to work. She was evicted from her home, and her teenage son went to live with her sister. She fell into heroin and, to pay for it, prostitution. Days before her death, she sent a birthday...
...Politics. Wary of the image, Corzine let a couple of very expensive heads roll out the door of his headquarters last Thursday for spending money on things easy to ridicule: valet parking at a dinner in urban Elizabeth, lavish events in expensive hotels with tuxedoed waiters carving prime rib, and salaries approaching a quarter-million dollars a year. Corzine didn't settle for the usual in-house opposition research but spent $200,000 instead on a Manhattan attorney who subcontracted the dirty work to private investigators. (Corzine claims he ended the arrangement as soon as he found out about...
Physical comedy was the order of the day in Loot, and particularly rib-tickling was Fay's confession to the murder of Mrs. McLeavy, with melodrama and cheesy music in full gear, and the sorrowful admission that "Euthanasia was against my religion. So I murdered her." Of course, Orton himself objected to the use of any camp in the original productions of his plays, but in modern times, when Orton's once unprecedented criticisms of societal values are no longer so, well, unprecedented, the actors need the energy of camp to let them rip into his lines. So while...
Jesse Hernandez, 49, the other pro who runs the school, shouts, "Let's go!" and his students beef into the ring to practice flying off the ropes like drunken sailors. "I broke two ribs my second class," says Marciano Mendiola, 29, who works with the mentally disturbed by day and seems to feel right at home with these classmates. One of them, Raymond ("Hurricane") Marcus, 18, got a $1,500 scholarship to the School of Hard Knocks. "He's part Soboba Indian, and the reservation gives out education grants," says his mother Sherri. "Jesse and Bill had to send letters...
...that set, he barely recognized him. "He was like the more successful, more centered, more handsome, just generally more masculine and surefooted cousin of Ripley," he says. And as Damon conducted a barrage of press interviews for Ripley, he was squirming under a brace because he had separated a rib while swinging a golf club for yet another role, as a World War I veteran who finds enlightenment through his caddy in The Legend of Bagger Vance, which is being directed by Robert Redford. "Matt seems to work on a process of 'If it doesn't hurt...