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...discouraging her from telling Dillon about the affair. Other prosecution witnesses said Scher had been trying to figure out a way for his lover--a devout Roman Catholic--to get an annulment so she could remarry within the church. Meanwhile, FBI lab analysis showed that the high-speed blood-spatter patterns on the boots Scher wore at Gunsmoke could have been left only after a huge amount of force was used at close range. Prosecutor Robert Campolongo called the killing an "ambush...
...Perhaps that is why this fall, besides NBC's Johnny Carson and David Letterman, there will be entries from Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin on ABC, Joan Rivers on the new Fox network, David Brenner and Oprah Winfrey in syndication and Robert Klein on cable's USA Network. That spatter of patter may also be why a veteran of TV's talkfests is leaving the lists. This week, after 23 years, Merv Griffin, 61, broadcasts his / 5,520th and final show. "It's tough to say good-bye," said the genial, gee- whiz Griffin, as he taped a farewell evening...
...whose position as National Champion Castigator is challenged only by his fellow idealist, Critic Henry Louis Mencken, has made another large round-up of grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction-which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from upcreek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with...
...choice, Gelsey has the kind of high-stepping, scenery-chewing part that can hurl an artist into stardom. Don Q offers some of the great bravura set pieces in the classical repertory, and Baryshnikov has seen to it that the routines spill into each other and positively spatter on the stage, threatening to engulf the aisles and even (somebody call the cops!) the streets outside...
...Stevens), Lewis's jealous lover, a telekinetic teenager who makes people bleed at will, mentally jerks her into the air, blood pouring from her eyes, nose, and mouth, and as she moans and gurgles begins to spin her around, whirling her faster and faster until her sprays of blood spatter the walls and lampshades. If Hitchcock assumes our voyeurism, DePalma must assume our psychosis and sado-masochism...