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...defense to say the defendant is a good guy and the witnesses are bums,” says Toobin, who is also a Crimson editor. “The risk to the defense is that jurors will say, either consciously or subconsciously, ‘We’re sick of these arrogant Harvard jerks acting like the rules don’t apply to them...
Ever since Lenny Bruce's death from a drug overdose in 1966, his legend has overwhelmed his comedy. His "sick" material pushed the boundaries of language and subject matter, kept him shuttling in and out of jail--and provided a model for every antiestablishment comic who followed. Now Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware, a six-CD set due out this week from Shout! Factory, will give the most complete account yet of why. Producer Hal Willner, working with Bruce's daughter Kitty, listened to more than 200 hours of Bruce's private recordings and other long-unheard tapes...
...fact that she never knew about the regime's crimes despite working with Hitler up to 20 hours a day. Eichinger doesn't think Hitler was crazy or psychopathic. "A psychopath could never create what he created," he says. "I don't believe he was crazy at all, maybe sick in a certain way. But he was much more dangerous than that." Eichinger, who has produced English-language films The Name of the Rose and The Never Ending Story, says the film isn't intended to make the Hitler generation feel guilty about the war, but to help younger Germans...
...late 2000 and early 2001 was as sudden as it was unexpected. Pina Bampi no longer uses heroin, but she remembers the desperation on the streets of Footscray, an inner suburb of Melbourne, when supply of the drug simply dried up. "People were so panicked, so worried about getting sick (from withdrawal)," Bampi says. "It lasted for three or four months, but to us that was forever." Though heroin is more available now, the ripple effects of the drought continue to be felt, most noticeably in national overdose-death rates, which have plunged since 2000. In New South Wales alone...
Next time you hear someone complain they're too busy to be sick, mention the director Mira Nair. When we meet, she's launching a film studio in Bombay, preparing to shoot three movies in India, England and possibly Afghanistan, working on a Broadway musical and creating a film workshop-cum-garden with a view of Lake Victoria near Kampala, in Uganda?all in addition to being a long-distance mother and wife to her family in New York City. Meanwhile, she's been up all night in her Bombay hotel with viral flu and a temperature...