Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blameless; both implied that they settled to protect their sensitive clients. "A child can't heal until this is behind him," declared the boy's attorney, Larry Feldman, and the same could apply to the childlike Jackson. "Michael wants to get on with his life," said his lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, "and let the healing process begin...
...Superior Court building in Santa Monica last week to hear the announcement of the epochal compromise -- and for the two squads of lawyers. The main attorneys got high marks for their work. "Feldman publicized, publicized, publicized, and then got the big settlement," says New York City attorney Raoul Felder. "Cochran and Howard Weitzman did a good job by hobbling the criminal case...
...client; the other spent only 30 minutes with him in Moscow and promptly departed for the South of France. They did not even know if Garcetti was issuing an arrest warrant for Jackson. The savviest legal and personal adviser was actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose own lawyer told her, "Cochran is the only...
...Cochran signed on in early December and persuaded Jackson to return to the U.S. and take an active role in his defense. "For months," Cochran told Time, "Hard Copy and the tabloids had been beating up Michael. I wanted to bring him back here, at the center of what was happening. Michael always has and always will be the most effective advocate for the fact of his innocence." But after a month of drug therapy, Jackson was off on the fringe. So blithe was he about the charges that, when he arrived home from London, he was accompanied...
...films from tyro directors, the outlaw is in. Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs: gangsters pull a heist, then engage in a long therapy session of bitchery and carnage. Tom Kalin's Swoon: those gay cutups of the '20s, Leopold and Loeb, are back, artier and hornier than ever. Stacy Cochran's My New Gun: doctor gives his restless wife a handgun; audience waits for it to go off. Add two other, more seasoned directors of outlaw movies -- Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) and Hal Hartley (Simple Men) -- and you have a tough new movie generation. If they'd all gone...