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...teacher, came with his wife and granddaughter (who insisted I sign her Junie B. Jones book, even though I demurred that I had nothing to do with writing it). Mrs. Donahue, my old doubles partner in the city tennis tournament, dropped by. (I had to sign her book ?Bobby? Sullivan.) Old customers of my dad?s at the Union National Bank and my mom?s at the Jeanne D?Arc Credit Union-unknown to me, but wanting to be remembered to Mom-showed up. High school friends. Strangers. A guy who worked security for the Patriots who never took...
Exactly 230 years later, as paratroopers descended on the Common and a helicopter hovered overhead, veterans and dignitaries, including Undersecretary of the Army Raymond F. DuBois and Cambridge mayor Michael A. Sullivan, delivered celebratory speeches...
DIED. Myron Cohen, 83, stand-up comic who was a star on the Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Catskill Borscht Belt circuit for 40 years, and a favorite of TV audiences on the old Ed Sullivan hour and the Tonight show; after a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. A onetime salesman in New York City's garment district, Cohen specialized in dialect stories and ethnic jokes that were sometimes blue, usually hilarious, but always gentle...
...gangsters, murderers and thieves. These are the people who truly stimulate the author's descriptive instincts for the deadly sins. There is Old Jack, for example, "who pushed drugs for tens of thousands with the same fervor as he filched a newspaper from a candy store," or Charlie O'Sullivan, an ex-baseball player and contract killer who swings a deadly bat. That these and other characters do not have much to do with the story of Dolores and Owney is not so noticeable as one might imagine. Breslin puts a lot of life on the page. Like a good...
...last summer's top-grossing Top Gun. A small but highly successful collection for an actress who was waiting on tables right up until the release of Reuben, in case it flopped. Now swamped with scripts, McGillis, 28, has just finished a romantic thriller, once titled The House on Sullivan Street, in which she plays a McCarthy-era blacklist victim. She has also been an "unborn soul," of all ethereal things, in the soon-to-be-released Made in Heaven. Next month McGillis will start shooting Dreamers in Israel, portraying a Jewish pioneer in early 20th century Palestine. "I loved...