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...Death - real, non-fiction death - is no stranger in our living rooms. We've seen war dead and street dead, we've seen Lee Harvey Oswald shot and Dr. Kevorkian at work. Earlier this year, public radio aired tapes of old executions in Georgia, and the republic stood. Maybe there is something magic, incomparable, holy about the live, planned display of the moment of extinguishment. But maybe not. Maybe what proponents and opponents of capital punishment have in common is that they expect an execution - the moment and the spectacle itself - to deliver too much: too much revulsion, too much...
...Kraft had been performing at a Greenwich Village nightclub when Willis began playing the harmonica in the audience. Kraft invited the stranger up to the stage and the two hit it off immediately...
...Being a stranger to rejection, I rationalized, justified and poo-poohed to anyone who would listen. “Crimson Key discriminates.” “You can’t be a prefect unless you’re friends with people on the steering committee.” “I’m not pretentious enough for the Signet. I don’t own any smoking jackets or sweater vests.” But the more I seethed, carped and whined, the more that gnawing, paralyzing tightness began to sink into my stomach...
...success as a co-producer of the Oscar-nominated movie Being John Malkovich. Stipe is currently producing a wide range of films, including the high school coming-of-age feature Our Song (opening in New York City on May 23 and wider in June), the women's prison drama Stranger Inside (airing on HBO June 23) and 13 Conversations About One Thing, a drama about karma, which should hit the festival circuit later this year. "Onstage it's all about me, whether it should be or not," says Stipe. "But Peter's frankly much smarter and more articulate than...
...short, bald, of undetectable charm - who was a virtual bigamist. He had a wife and family in the suburbs and something of the same arrangement, though without benefit of clergy, in town. He lived a complex double life - a secret agent in his own existence, half of him a stranger to the other half. Which was perhaps his way of keeping himself amused. He often had to eat two dinners: once, in early evening after work, with his in-town woman, and a few hours later - after "working late at the office" - with his wife. No wonder...