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DIED. HUGH EDWARD O'CONNOR, 33, TV actor; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. The son of TV star Carroll O'Connor, Hugh O'Connor played a small-town Southern law officer opposite his father in the series In the Heat of the Night. Off-camera, Hugh struggled against drug abuse. Hours after his death, police arrested Harry Thomas Perzigian, who has been accused of supplying drugs to the actor. The accuser: Carroll O'Connor...
Social studies thesis topics ranged from "Economic Rights and the 14th Amendment" to "Wal-Mart's Struggle in Small-Town America...
Laurence Fishburne plays Tanney Brown, the small-town police chief and Russian roulette-player, and he steals the film from Connery. As it turns out, that isn't difficult, for Connery does almost nothing, jumping occasionally from anger to fear and never holding either very well or for very long...
...Vidalia, Georgia, a small town known mostly for its sweet onions. Before dawn, dozens of state and federal law officers started banging on doors all over the town's north side. Within minutes, 46 gangsters and crack dealers were in handcuffs, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, while law-abiding neighbors cheered the gangbusters. The task force had been called in by Vidalia's 26-man police force, which had recently found itself outgunned by homegrown drug sellers who were terrorizing citizens and making daily death threats to Vidalia's lone narcotics investigator. Like most of small-town...
...inside. Rather than be part of the Speaker's festivities, he took the week off to golf in Hawaii. Unlike so many rich guys who have used their new fortunes to remake themselves with Fifth Avenue apartments, houses in the Hamptons and charity balls, he lives the kind of small-town life he would have lived had he stayed in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, only with more possibilities for ordering in ethnic food. After dinner, he is dropped off at a nondescript high-rise on the Upper West Side, with two bedrooms and no dining-room table. Having gone on numerous...