Word: alberts
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...perfectly appropriate twist last week, defense attorneys for the Kimeses introduced Les Levine, a private investigator who has worked for both infamous sportscaster Marv Albert and one of the New York City cops accused in the toilet-plunger sodomy scandal. Levine said his mission is to find out what really happened to Irene Silverman, 82, the missing ex-dancer. "Oftentimes," he said of police, "they get so blinded by what they think are the facts that the true perpetrator happens to get away...
HIRED. Penitent sportscaster MARV ALBERT, 55; by MSG Network; in New York City. Albert, who will play host on a half-hour show and call radio play-by-play for the Knicks, was forced to resign from the network last year following a lurid trial in which he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for biting a former lover...
...book, Read My Lips. Wilchins believes that male-female divisions force constructed social roles on all of us and create a class of the "gender oppressed"--not only transgenders but also feminine men, butch women, lesbians and gays, "intersexed" people (hermaphrodites) and even people with "alternative sexual practices." (Marv Albert, meet your leader...
...second acts in American lives? Ask comeback celebs such as Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy -- and now, Marv Albert. The disgraced sportscaster, just named as a new radio voice of the New York Knicks, is back. Yesss! Allen outlasted his image as a cradle-robbing lech, and Murphy lived down his alleged encounter with a transvestite prostitute. So even though it took just 10 months, Albert's return after the infamous back-biting incident is hardly the most spectacular rehabilitation in American public life...
...also not the most succesful. Murphy has had a string of well-received movies -- "Dr. Doolittle," "The Nutty Professor" -- since the transvestite scandal, and Allen has found success "Deconstructing Harry," among other things. For Albert, once the lead basketball announcer for NBC, local New York City radio must be a comedown. (He'll also be manning the sports desk for Madison Square Garden's cable network.) On the other hand, it's a big step up from oblivion. Remember Jimmy the Greek and Al Campanis, two guys who got a one-way ticket to showbiz oblivion after making impolitic remarks...