Word: stegmaner
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...money the rich artist could pump into the hospital. (On Rickman's arrival, a nurse mentions the need to perform a "wallet biopsy" to see how he's equipped to pay for his care.) The staff includes eccentric brain surgeon Dr. Hook (Andrew McCarthy) and pompous chief neurologist Dr. Stegman (Bruce Davison). Among the patients is a psychic (Diane Ladd), who, like Rickman, is picking up weird vibes in the halls...
...characters include Dr. Hook, played by long-lost Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy, a "brilliant" surgeon who isn't so brilliant that he can find a home outside the hospital basement or a hobby outside of collecting scalpels. Diane Ladd is Mrs. Druse, a "psychic hypochondriac." Bruce Davison plays Dr. Stegman, a hopelessly incompetent yet arrogant doctor. Naturally, the spirits of the child workers who died in the fire lurk in the corridors; naturally, the living characters foolishly ignore them...
...week by a white judge (South Africa does not have jury trials). Mandela and two codefendants had been accused of kidnapping four young black men from a Methodist minister's home in Soweto in December 1988 and beating them in a back room of the Mandela house. Judge Michael Stegman found Winnie to be only an accessory to the assault but decided that she had planned the kidnapping. Denouncing her as a "calm, composed, deliberate and unblushing liar," he sentenced her to six years in prison...
...create an adolescent colony as teeming and desolate as an American Gulag. The principal is a blinkered hypocrite; the biology prof (Roddy McDowall) teaches chromosomes at gunpoint. And the school toughs-moral crustaceans dressed in swastika T shirts and the very latest leather-are led by no ordinary psychopath. Stegman (Timothy Van Patten) is also a musical prodigy: as he directs a gang rape of the hero's wife he whistles the first bars from Johann Strauss's giddy Voices of Spring waltz. All this is enough to make even the mildest of men, Music Teacher Andy Norris...
...brevity, Uncle captures the duration of a life: the young man loitering in coffee shops and listening to radical debates; his flourishing business career; his later years, when he lies beside a pool in Miami pondering the ultimate adversary: "If the American dream ever lived on Stegman Parkway, it entered Irv's heart as an unacknowledged optimism about the mechanics of time." Only in old age does he learn to mourn his own mortality. "We are making something out of nothing," he cries. "And what we are making is no good...