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...another patient was caused by an overdose. Hurwitz's assets were seized, and now he is appealing his conviction with the help of the pain foundation and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Hurwitz defenders acknowledge that he may have practiced overly aggressive medicine and allowed addicts to snooker him, but insist he never profited from drug sales and was not a criminal. "Maybe his license should have been suspended," says Dr. Russell Portenoy, chairman of the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center. "But there was no evidence that his patients...
...film than its plot. Shortland, who studied fine arts at Sydney University before going on to graduate from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, gives an impression of teenage life as textured and poetic as Heidi's scrapbook. Stones thrown into a lake cut to the sound of snooker balls. Heidi watches her stern new lover throw water across his ute's icy windscreen and her heart melts. Rejected by Joe, she goes to an alpine club and watches revelers in an indoor pool tumble as if in sexual free fall...
...cheapest clubs to join, but the joining fee is HK$30,000, and that's still too expensive really. I don't know who they're going to get. I mean, would you join this for $30,000?" As he says this he gestures at a mothballed snooker room...
...wasn't supposed to end up like this, not for one of Europe's finest footballers, not in this grim snooker hall in remote China, where Gazza is so lost that he doesn't even know how to pronounce his own name in Mandarin. He had been the most promising English footballer of his generation, a sublimely gifted mid-fielder with that rarest of abilities?he could control the tempo of the game, making average teammates seem good and good players seem great. There were a few years, as he played his club football for Newcastle, Tottenham and Lazio...
...evening, the burden of this vacuous camaraderie leaves Gazza feeling low. After the rest of the team has been tucked into bed by a 9:30 curfew, he finds solace in snooker and San Miguel. At night, his motions are usually lazy, a languor born of loneliness. But tonight Gazza is all manic energy, careening around like a banked cue ball. He has invited his father, John Gascoigne, and best mate, Jimmy Gardner?Jimmy Five Bellies to the British tabloids?to stay with him for the next three months, and they will arrive by car from Hong Kong...