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With his kitchen-knife physique, sour face and a hairdo resembling a road-kill toupee, Lyle Lovett looks like a serial killer in Southern Baptist preacher's garb. That must be what inspired Robert Altman to cast the singer as a spooky detective in The Player. Anatomy is destiny in modern show biz, so it doesn't hurt Lovett that he looks like his songs. He could be a death-row denizen musing about the ends of life and love...
...Milwaukee judge who sentenced serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to 15 consecutive life terms appears to be rushing from the bench to the word processor. According to a recent ad in Daily Variety, Laurence Gram's The Jeffrey Dahmer Case: A Judge's Perspective is in the works. And so is a film script titled The Jeffrey Dahmer Confessions, to be based on the judge's book but not written by him. "The judge doesn't want a horror picture per se," says agent Lew Breyer. "But I have written in one or two horror scenes that are horrific in describing...
...federal pen? Some of our more disillusioned citizens, the kind who keep talk-radio buzzing, have already concluded that what we have going here is a giant extortion system: Send us money, the IRS demands every April, or be prepared to spend a lengthy sabbatical locked up with a serial killer who has devoted the past 10 years to working...
...investigator of unusual claims, I'm accustomed to being confronted with incredible examples of medieval thinking in the 20th century. Everywhere we look, we find antiscientific bias and belief in the unbelievable -- from demons causing susceptible serial killers to act up to researchers who find top-secret code words in George Bush's speeches when they are played backward, leading them to the conclusion that the President and others thereby unconsciously reveal this information. Thousands of Americans think bacteria do not cause disease, and are convinced that death is an aberration; they are known as Christian Scientists...
...Republican Mitch McConnell, which would allow victims of sex crimes to sue the producers, distributors and sellers of obscene material and child pornography if the victims can prove that the material was a "substantial cause" of the injury. Some have informally dubbed McConnell's proposal "the Bundy bill," after serial killer Ted Bundy, who claimed just before his execution that pornography had fueled his violent fantasies...