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...Sometimes, of course, genuinely crusading journalists do get murdered. In 2002, for example, the highly regarded editor of the Zamboanga Scribe, Edgar Damalerio, was gunned down on the street. Famous for writing exposés of local malfeasance, Damalerio had also taken the extraordinary step of personally filing cases against allegedly crooked officials. Since Damalerio's death, his paper's publisher, Hernan de la Cruz, says he has hired three bodyguards and has taken to carrying a .45-cal. pistol for protection. These are logical precautions, no doubt, but what about the many journalists who cannot afford such measures...
...those of you who haven’t been tuning in, the 27-year-old Arulpragasam comes with a bio that a press-release scribe would kill for. She fled her native Sri Lanka at 11, a refugee from that small island’s brutal civil war, which her estranged father helped wage as a leading militant...
...time Jim Carroll played at the Middle East was three years ago. He shared a bill with Ray Manzarek, the former keyboardist for The Doors. But when Carroll returns to the Middle East tomorrow, the rock will probably take a back seat to the literary. Fans of Basketball Diaries scribe Jim Carroll have been waiting for the poet’s first fictional work for the better part of a decade. The wait will continue, but at tomorrow’s show, audience members will get a sneak peak at Carroll’s novel-in-progress...
...night. The film is structured with voiced-over excerpts from Cristina’s college entrance essay about her mother. The idea seems at first a little cheesy—the narration smacks of the immature musings of an over-achieving high schooler—but Brooks, great scribe that he is, somehow manages to make the words mean something. It actually becomes one of the strengths of the film: when Cristina asserts towards the end, “though your acceptance will thrill me—it won’t define me. I am my mother?...
...character of Triumph, the profane Don Rickles of the kennel set, has long been performed by “Saturday Night Live” scribe Smigel on the late-night show of Conan O’Brien ’85. Last night, Smigel was accompanied by a man bearing a large, expensive-looking video camera as he addressed the crowd...