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...notion of personal responsibility took another shot in the chops last week when Matthew F. Kennelly, a federal district judge in Chicago, ruled that Elizabeth Randolph ("Randy") Roach, 47, should not serve up to 18 months in prison for embezzling $241,061 from her former employer. Instead, the judge sentenced the defendant to five years' probation, six months of weekends confined to her home, six weeks of incarceration in a Salvation Army work-release center and a $30,000 fine. Lawyers on both sides of the case said it was the first time a shopaholic defense has triumphed...
There's no jealousy like show jealousy, as NATHAN LANE and MATTHEW BRODERICK will no doubt discover Sunday night. Not only is The Producers up for 15 Tony Awards, but Lane and Broderick, who star in the musical, are hosts of the ceremony too. "Way back when they asked us to do it, nobody had been nominated yet," says Broderick, "so it wasn't like 'Oh, you've got 15 nominations, why don't you also host it?'" Aware that some may be rooting against The Producers juggernaut, Broderick says, "Well, we can't win all of them"--pause--"because...
...With reporting by Matthew Forney/Beijing, Barry Hillenbrand/Washington and Don Shapiro and Jennifer Wang/Taipei
Others are catching the acting bug. Author Jonathan Ames appeared in a literary boxing match and ended up with a broken nose. Authors Matthew Klam and Lucinda Rosenfeld did a reading at TSE, an exclusive Madison Avenue shop, donning the store's pricey cashmere togs. Novelist Rick Moody has even served as the opening act for a rock band, the Magnetic Fields...
...Matthew Schofield, a staff writer at the Kansas City Star, said he wants to use the fellowship to jumpstart his career in foreign correspondence...