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...Given an assumed name and occupation, he enters the country, and the home of Harrison Ford?s Tom O?Meara, as an ordinary immigrant needing a sponsor. Since Tom is a New York City cop of unquestionable honesty, Frankie?s cover is perfect. The script (by David Aaron Cohen, Vincent Patrick and Kevin Jarre) is good about not making too much of this relationship, subtly foreshadowing the betrayal that must come, but allowing these figures room to draw normal human breath. "Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter...
...fact, Singleton is notorious for "the first time." In 1978 a 15-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada, runaway named Mary Vincent hitched a ride outside San Francisco with a balding man in a blue van. The man approached her sexually, backed off, but later--having liquored up--beat her, bound her and raped her twice. Then he got his ax. He chopped off her arms and left her in a concrete culvert to die. She didn't. The next day, read court records, Vincent was found "wandering nude ... holding up her arms so that the muscles and blood would...
Further enraging Californians were Singleton's claims to innocence and his absurd threat of a forcible-kidnap complaint against Vincent. (She won $2.56 million from him in a civil suit, but he had no funds.) When Singleton moved in 1988 to his native Florida, the reception was equally hostile. A Tampa car dealer offered him $5,000 to get out of the state, and a firebomb exploded on his lawn. He had more luck later in Orient Park, where he moved into a house owned by his family. Some neighbors were ignorant of his past. Others felt sure Singleton...
...Lawrence Singleton's victims, such speculation is moot. Mary Vincent, now 34, told the San Jose Mercury News that she was "appalled and horrified. I want to feel safe again. I don't know what the feeling is like anymore." Divorced and financially strapped, she is raising one of her two children on her own. The prosthetic hooks she wears have worn...
...Vincent S.R. Brandt, visiting lecturer on Korean history and acting director of the Korea Institute, was recruited by Yisei for the position of acting faculty adviser. Brandt is standing in for Professor of Korean History Carter J. Eckert, the institute's director, who is on leave this year at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington...