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...plaintiffs' multimillion-dollar checks in his office. His fame crested in 1995 after his successful defense of O.J. Simpson, against seemingly overwhelming evidence, of charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend. Cochran's signature line, a reference to a blood-stained glove: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit...
...Metzger went on to direct one more arty hard-core, the excellent Paris-shot SM drama The Image, before turning to light-hearted New York porn under the pseudonym Henry Paris.) The Market was just that: a film showcase to lure international buyers. But the porn movies on display fit snugly into the tone of the official Festival. They were serious (if not successful) works, as ambitious as they were lubricious...
...elite and dominate the media, including ad images. This jars with the American take on diversity, says Andrew Speyer, of the Zubi agency in Miami: "Most advertisers in Mexico are not portraying the average Mexican, so it gets tricky when the [American] clients see casting that doesn't fit what they recognize as 'Mexican' or 'ethnic...
...somebody who already has that connection," explains Jackson. Like sleuths on TV's Cold Case, adoption workers delve into each youth's history, trying to identify coaches, teachers or neighbors who have a relationship with the adolescent. Sometimes they discover a distant relative who wasn't regarded as a "fit parent" for a child in the past. Agencies invariably require adoption-training classes; Jackson's group holds them in the same tough communities from which the kids come. "Not all the homes we find look like Ozzie and Harriet's," says Jackson. "We're targeting people who know the difficulties...
...character puts it--and suffocating in a Stepford-perfect marriage. "I lived molded to the smallest space possible," she says, "my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers." When word arrives that her mom has cut off her index finger in a fit of religious mania, Jessie rushes off to take care of her, back to the tiny island off the coast of South Carolina where Jessie grew up. (She's secretly grateful for any excuse to get out of the house.) On the island she meets a skeptical monk-in-training named Brother...