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DIED. ALBERT HACKETT, 95, stage- and screenwriter; in Manhattan. Hackett, with his first wife, Frances Goodrich, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for their play The Diary of Anne Frank. Their more than 30 movies include The Thin Man and It's a Wonderful Life...
...This happens all the time in show business--when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed in 1924, Samuel Goldwyn had already been forced out of the company. At DreamWorks, Katzenberg is a man with a mission; the other two are in it for the fun, which could wear thin quickly. Spielberg's plans to move to New York City may be on hold. But even in California, he can't give 24 hours a day to this job; Capshaw won't let him. Says Katzenberg: "I perfectly understand the ground rules: 8:30 to 5:30, Monday to Friday, is mine...
Instead, Bailey handed dynamite to Clark when he claimed last Tuesday that a black former Marine named Maximo Cordoba was ready to testify that Fuhrman had called him a nigger. Clark let loose, claiming that Bailey's proof of this event would "evaporate into thin air." In response, Bailey puffed up his chest and said, "I have spoken to him on the phone, Marine to Marine, and I haven't the slightest doubt that he'll march up to that witness stand and tell the world what Mark Fuhrman said to him." That night the TV newsmagazine Dateline NBC aired...
...weighted on the same grounds. If B gets into Lowell and A doesn't, which is theorectically very possible, neither group would be happy. And there are also occasions when you are assigned to some house you never put down, and all your choices seem to have evaporated into thin air--would you ever bother to think about houses if you could know beforehand that you would undergo this unreasonable randomization...
...boyfriend Aidan are by far the most appealing characters; their conversation is witty and affectionate, far more so than Jack and Benny's, and their sexual explorations are endearingly funny. Sean is the classic villain who we love to hate, and Alan Cumming's comic routine never wears thin...