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...allegations against Fuhrman, first reported in the New Yorker and Newsweek last summer, consist mainly of comments he made to psychiatrists when he was suing the city to receive permanent disability pay owing to job-related stress. Discussing rage and depression he claimed to be experiencing while dealing with violent gang members and other "slimes and assholes," Fuhrman made an aside about "Mexicans and niggers" he encountered during military service. Though Fuhrman now denies making the racial slurs during the psychiatric sessions, he was clearly a man in distress. He acknowledged to the doctors that his work in an antigang...
...study neurology and sample the wild life. He rode with the notorious bikers' club and lifted weights competitively. A 600-lb. hoist won him a state championship. Today he keeps in shape by swimming two hours a day. "It's like watching a porpoise," says his friend, New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler. "He's incredibly powerful, incredibly graceful and incessant...
...quite. They--or, rather, producer Arnold Kopelson--read it in a New Yorker article in 1992. "Crisis in the Hot Zone," Richard Preston's true story about the near escape of the Ebola virus from a Virginia lab, threw Hollywood into a bidding frenzy, and Kopelson was one of the pursuers. When Preston sold his rights to 20th Century Fox, Kopelson decided to make a fictional plague film, Outbreak. It scurried into production while the Hot Zone project dithered in development and then aborted. So if you want to see a virus epic, Outbreak...
...Yorker by birth and a New Englanderby adoption and I realized that I wanted to comehome to be closer to my dearest friends andfamily," Schor said. "I realized I could neverwalk away from Harvard without regret...
Bill T. Jones is not crossing the lines of reality and theater in Still/Here, as New Yorker dance reviewer Arlene Croce complained in her criticism of the piece, unseen by her [Culture, Feb. 6]. The theater is usually a reflection of reality. Maybe this reflection is too close to the surface for Croce. By including in his work people who are suffering from AIDS, Jones is being honest about his themes. Isn't it often said, ``Write about what you know''? People should, by that logic, dance and talk about what they know. The people involved in the piece...