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Galluccio, the top vote-getter in this month's City Council election, would not confirm that he is throwing his hat in the ring but said that if he runs for any position next year it will be for state representative. To win, Galluccio would have to unseat incumbent Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge), who defeated him in a close race for state representative last year by only 90 votes...
...order, Mr. Tyson! This whole ring is out of order!" Who better to be host of a People's Court ripoff than MILLS LANE--ex-Marine, ex-prizefighter, Nevada district court judge and the ref who pulled Mike Tyson away from Evander Holyfield's ear. "Maximum Mills," as he is known in Nevada, will be seen in Judge Mills Lane, due to air next fall. The show will be produced by the folks who made A Current Affair and Inside Edition, and they expect swift, just decisions from Lane. Definitely tougher than Wapner...
...easiest book to translate into film," says director Iain Softley of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove. Ring one up for the classic literary under-statement of the year. The notoriously dense late-Jamesian style, elliptical dialogue, and near-obsessive concentration on internal thoughts and consciousness guarantee an uphill battle in achieving upper-end-mainstream/borderline elite moviegoer appeal. Softley and screen-writer Hossein Amini have succeeded in crafting an intensely physical adaptation that takes enough sweeping liberties and simplifications to make James scholars cringe or shrug, but retains sufficient subtlety and sensitivity to be dramatically compelling...
Much of Felix's charm comes from its wonderfully self-conscious adherence to the classic conventions of mystery novels. A few key red herrings are made painfully obvious, as are several crucial clues. A large, distinctive signet ring is referred to in detail three or four times; only a very slow-witted reader could fail to mark its significance. In the car after interviewing Mirry about Gavin's death, one policeman turns to his partner and asks significantly, in time-honored detective novel tradition, "I wonder how she knew [the murder weapon] was a spanner," since the precise murder weapon...
While Clinton's generation of women was so vocal about having families, careers and doing everything perfectly, our generation tries to keep mum. We are advised in law school not to wear our wedding band or engagement ring to job interviews for fear that employers will view us as baby machines, women too distracted by a family to devote 80 hours a week...