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...proper ingredients and all the right new moves: he deconstructed his text and undercut it with the cadences of a Borscht Belt raconteur. But on the page, Goldman's wordplay seemed too much of a jape. It needed the expanse of cinema -- where on the late show Errol Flynn and Gunga Din are still storybook young -- to revive the poetry of fable. Now, 14 years later, he and Rob Reiner have got it smashingly right...
...able to go anywhere in life." Oleg Cassini, 74, needed no other guidance. He lived high, and he lasted. Intermittently a dress designer, he played polo on the Army cavalry team during World War II and basked in '40s Hollywood, married Gene Tierney, drank with Errol Flynn and romanced Grace Kelly, even as her rich parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits)) to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress"), and his memoir of Camelot is lively. He also offers...
Manuel Rose, a 68-year-old retiree with an artificial leg, was cheerfully watching a baseball game on television in his second-floor South Boston apartment when a man with a familiar face burst through the door. "What the hell are you doing here?" asked Rose as Ray Flynn, the mayor of Boston, picked him up and hauled him out to the street. What was going on? Hizzoner, it seems, was playing basketball nearby when he spotted flames emerging from Rose's home and rushed to the rescue...
That sort of mayoral derring-do has become routine for Flynn, an athletic 48. Since he was elected in 1983, he has rescued a woman from an office fire, been first on the scene of an early-morning plane crash, and plucked a man from a wrecked car near city hall. Though critics carp that Flynn's heroics amount to headline grabbing as he prepares for a second-term bid this November, the mayor vows that he will continue helping citizens in need. Says he: "I'll do it again whenever a situation arises, and never mind the fallout...
Paul L. Barrett, a friend of the mayor who was Flynn's education adviser and now works in the parks department, received $7797 from Boston taxpayers for courses taken at the Kennedy School and the Graduate School of Education...