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Eleven-year-old Mark Sway's accidental involvement in the suicide of a New Orleans Mafia lawyer leads him to "all kinds of trouble" in the first chapter of John Grisham's "The Client." In producer Joel Schumacher's adaptation of the novel (also "The Client"), however, it is the screenplay's disinvolvement from the opening-scene suicide and its "bloody and explosive secret" that causes the film "all kinds of trouble...
...High Court kept church and state at arm's length by ruling that New York state could not fund a special public school district for disabled children of Hasidic Jews. The justices voted 6-3 against the Kiryas Joel public school district, created to take care of the needs of about 220 children too handicapped to go to private religious schools. Their parents had opposed sending them to nearby public schools that of course, provided no Hasidic curriculum. While the Constitution allows some room to accommodate religious needs, Justice David Souter said the New York plan "crosses the line...
When it comes to getting tickets for the hottest entertainment and sports events, it's money that counts. Big money. And as the most star-studded summer concert season in years gets under way -- with such performers as Streisand, Billy Joel and Elton John, the Rolling Stones, and the 30 top bands that will appear at Woodstock II -- a "holy war" over outrageous ticket prices has broken out, forcing the music industry to choose up sides. Last month Pearl Jam, the popular alternative-rock band from Seattle, called down the wrath of the U.S. Department of Justice against Ticketmaster...
...Democratic Senate primary this year, opponents of former Ross Perot aide Richard Fisher ridiculed him for describing himself as a "small businessman." He earns millions of dollars a year as a money manager. But Fisher spent $1.8 million of it on the primary and won. Likewise, legal-services entrepreneur Joel Hyatt's matronly opponent for an Ohio Democratic senatorial nomination employed what the local press dubbed a "Mom vs. the Millionaire" offense; Hyatt retaliated with $209,000 in television spots the week of their primary. He won by 16,000 votes...
...Player: Lou Body, Jack Wylie, Joel Radtke...