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...more or less permanent heartache. He's rather grimly cheating on his wife, mostly because men of a certain age tend to do that. He can't quite control his anger and has become abusive with suspects. He's particularly hard on John Sommers (Geoffrey Rush), whose psychiatrist wife (Barbara Hershey) mysteriously disappeared on an Australian back road one night. He's convinced that this arrogant man must be a murderer...
DIED. LANCE LOUD, 50, journalist, punk rocker and eldest son of the Santa Barbara, Calif., Loud family, whom PBS filmed for 300 hours for the groundbreaking 1973 documentary An American Family; of complications from hepatitis C; in Los Angeles. With its intimate look at family life, the 12-part series won the praise of Margaret Mead; the openly gay Lance, who wore blue lipstick and came out on the show, was its star. The Louds later regretted participating. Lance wrote, "Television ate my family...
...Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer of California and Jon Corzine of New Jersey have proposed that plan assets be limited to no more than 20% of any one stock. Their bill would also reduce tax breaks for companies that make matching contributions with stock and would free employees to sell matching stock after 90 days. Senator Bingaman wants to allow companies to offer financial advice without being liable for investment losses, as they currently...
HONORABLE MENTIONS: tick, tick... BOOM!, Infinite Joy, Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim
Previous Jefferson lecturers have been Arthur Miller, James McPherson, Caroline Walker Bynum, Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Toulmin, Toni Morrison, Vincent Scully, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bernard Knox, Walker Percy, Cleanth Brooks, Sydney Hook, Barbara Tuchman, Saul Bellow, John Hope Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Erik Erikson, and Lionel Trilling...