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...attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and lent her increasing heft to The Poseidon Adventure. But her ripest later role was as herself...
HUSTLE AMC, SATURDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. This unapologetically slight con drama is a chrome-plated time machine back to the mid-'60s. In the spirit of Catch Me If You Can, it signals its retro intentions with midcentury-modern production design, a jazz sound track and the casting of Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as an aging grifter ("You're never too old to cheat, my dear"). Adrian Lester (Primary Colors) is ice cool as Mickey, a Zen master of con who treats his work more as philosophy than fraud. It's all delightfully phony, but will win your...
...risk of pulmonary disease and cancers of the mouth, throat and lungs. Although a recent study out of UCLA says no, practitioners in the field disagree. "There's certainly strong if not definitive evidence that long-term smokers take in a lot of particulates and carcinogens," says Dr. Robert Raicht, medical director of Odyssey House...
INDICTED. ROBERT TSAO, 58, and JOHN HSUAN, 53, former chairman and vice-chairman of Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), the world's second largest maker of custom computer chips; for allegedly transferring technology, funds and personnel to Chinese start-up He Jian Technology, in violation of laws prohibiting the establishment of high-tech semiconductor plants on the mainland without special approval; in Taipei. The two are also charged with "breach of trust" for allegedly acting against the interests of UMC shareholders. The company has denied the allegations, calling the indictments "purely political...
Fried also testified this past September in the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr ’76. In 1987, Tribe played a key role in derailing the high-court nomination of conservative Judge Robert H. Bork. But at the close of hearings yesterday, Alito’s confirmation to the high court appeared very likely...