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DIED. HAROLD ROTHWAX, 67, no-nonsense New York judge catapulted to prominence by the libel suit he brought against loose-mouthed radio talkster Don Imus; of complications from a stroke; in New York City. Though the public may have been fascinated by the flap with Imus, jurists were more intrigued by Rothwax's legal odyssey over the years from civil liberties lawyer to law-and-order judge. In an attention-catching 1996 book, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice, Rothwax argued that justice would be better served by clipping defendants' rights and giving police more leeway to seize evidence...
...Pudding performance last year, cast member Jon Tolins announced that a friend of his was in the audience, and requested permission to bring him backstage. Tolins' fellow transvestite thespians were amazed to see that the 'friend' was none other than PBS talkster Dick Cavett. Cavett not only came backstage but took the whole cast out to pizza where he was awarded a facsimile of the famous Pudding Pot in the shape of a pizzeria pitcher and christened Alternate Man of the Year, recalls Weir...
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