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...makings of a lurid tabloid tale (as indeed it was), and it cried out to be told in screaming headlines: KILLER AMENDMENT ATTACKS PAPERS. At the heart of the drama was Rupert Murdoch, the saucy conservative press baron known to his critics as "the Dirty Digger," tangling with Ted Kennedy, the controversial liberal Senator tagged "the Fat Boy" in the opinion pages of Murdoch's Boston Herald. Co-stars included three equally colorful New York politicians, who look upon Murdoch's New York Post with a mixture of fear and favor: Daniel Moynihan, the professorial Senator up for re-election...
...YORK-Newspaper union leaders and Mayor Edward I. Koch pilloried Sen. Edward M. Kennedy during a hearing yesterday at which they said the New York Post could fold if publisher Rupert Murdoch were forced to give...
...following days, though, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 revealed he had urged Hollings to take measures against the Boston Herald, a holding of Australian born media mogul Rupert Murdoch which routinely blasts Kennedy and his liberal colleagues in the Massachusetts congressional delegation. The only principle on which Kennedy and Hollings acted was that it's okay for senators to put their personal political agendas before the public's interests as long as they do so behind closed doors...
EVERYONE'S favorite character has to be Rupert Cadell (Laith Zawawi), the cynical intellectual who has been a mentor to Brandon since childhood, and who immediately suspects the cruel joke behind the dinner party. Zawawi plays Rupert as a hunched, scowling cripple with knitted brows, a vaguely Rumanian accent and an acerbic tongue. At times light-heartedly teasing, at others blazing with intensity, Zawawi holds the entire production together...
WHAT Maurice lacks most pointedly are compelling characters. Neither Master Hall nor his two gorgeous loves, the aristocrat Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) and Clive's swarthy gameskeeper Alec Scutter (Rupert Graves) have much in the way of lively sparks. Clive tries to deny his own homosexuality and even marries. Maurice channels his emotional and sexual frustration into training under-privileged London boys. Whatever they do, however, they remain bland figures taking themselves very seriously...