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...Nicholas Pileggi about life inside the Mafia. The resulting book, Wiseguy, became a best seller and the basis for the hit movie GoodFellas. But New York State's highest court ruled that the payment to Hill violated the 1977 "Son of Sam" law, so named for the pseudonym of serial killer David Berkowitz. Designed to keep crooks from cashing in on their crimes, the measure required that any earnings from selling their stories be used to compensate their victims. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the law, holding that it violated the First Amendment's freedom of speech...
Wynn Dalton, a down-on-his-luck dinner-theater actor, finally gets a break: pegged as a dead ringer for serial killer Dwayne Gary Steckler, he is cast as the fugitive psycho for a segment of All Points Bulletin, a catch-the-criminal show patterned after America's Most Wanted. His appearance is a hit with everybody but the real killer -- who disposes of the actor, assumes his identity and sets out to give the role some real authenticity. That's just the starting point for PUBLIC ENEMY 2, an ingenious comedy special tucked into Showtime's schedule this month...
...Then last September, a woman who also identified herself as C.J. called Dallas radio deejay Willis Johnson and, with calculated fury, elaborated on the campaign. Johnson asked the caller if she viewed herself as a "serial killer" who "stalks" men. "They approach me. I don't approach them," she said in the gentle cadence of a Southerner...
...dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have always put the food of their time in their still lifes, whether a jamon serrano by Velazquez or a baguette by Manet, and with Thiebaud the formal qualities of the paint now seem far more engaging than its reference to serial production...
...Marion Barry get caught smoking crack? Well, then it must have been a racist conspiracy. Or maybe the bitch set him up. Or maybe the devil made him do it. But it certainly wasn't Barry's fault. Just like those serial killings weren't Ted Bundy's fault (the porn made him do it) and those assassinations weren't Dan White's fault (the Twinkies made...