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...leaned toward urban terrorism, much of it aimed at the U.S. It hurled a rocket-propelled grenade at the American embassy, lobbed mortars at the U.S. ambassador's residence and bombed several Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Lima. Those acts initially imbued the guerrillas with an aura somewhere between Robin Hood mystique and radical chic. In 1990 the group staged its most spectacular stunt when nearly 50 members tunneled out of the Canto Grande prison near Lima, supposedly the nation's most secure jail. The crowning indignity was that the operation was videotaped by the escapees, who included Victor Polay...
...trend in off-Broadway plays of 1991 is recapitulated in movies of late '96, as Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire races Marvin's Room to the plexes. Both are realistic dramas spiked with wit about families gathering around an old man as he slips toward death. Indeed, The Substance of Fire could be Marvin's Room from Marvin's point of view...
...With reporting by Robin Elsham/Komoro and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...stars, eager to do good works and glean Oscar nods, who subsidize the projects by working for next to nothing. Branagh's sumptuous-looking Hamlet was shot for a mere $18 million. In its domestic release, the film need gross only about $12 million to break even. Why, Robin Williams, one of Hamlet's A-list co-stars, could earn that much on a single Jumanji-size movie...
...Peninsula staffer seemingly in response to Kaufman's editorial. This student, Jose M. Padilla '97, threatened a lawsuit against The Crimson, explaining that he had had no part in the article and should not have been held accountable for it. A final letter to the editor by Robin S. Goldstein '98 commended Kaufman for his attack on Peninsula...