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Finally, several security guards overheard his shouting, and, signalling to one another, closed in on us. Our "conversation" ended abruptly...
...conclusive -- not even the shotgun shell casing found in Lyle's jacket -- until a mysterious witness emerged. An informant told police that psychotherapist Jerome Oziel had tapes and notes of his sessions with the Menendez boys in which they confessed to the crime. The informant added that she overheard the confessions from the doctor's waiting room. Police seized the tapes and arrested Lyle; three days later, Erik turned himself...
...Palestinians are widely dispersed, their universe in some ways remains a village. Hamad was two hours into an interview with a family in the West Bank before he realized that he was related by marriage to one of its members. While he was interviewing students in Jordan, a teacher overheard that he lived in Bethlehem, the man's hometown. "And what is the news of Jamil Hamad?" asked the teacher. Hamad laughed and replied, "I am Jamil Hamad." The two had not seen each other in 20 years...
...honing a screenplay on which he collaborated with Sean Penn. He is also touring with a fine, fierce new band. They lay down a carbolic concert that may eventually include the exquisite Hello Mary, a piece of lovelorn virtuosity whose lyrics consist entirely of one end of an overheard phone conversation: "Heard you had a son/ Don't remember his name/ That's a really nice name/ I just called/ To check and see/ If my memory's correct/ And you mean a thing to me." The song sounds so heartfelt it almost seems raw, and it's not hard...
Hollywood is the sixth installment in the author's sprawling rewrite of U.S. history, and the formula established in such earlier books as Burr (1973) and 1876 (1976) has grown comfy to a fault. Some fictional characters mingle with real people, rich, famous or notorious. Unfolding history can be overheard in drawing-room gossip. In this instance, the invention of the movies provokes drollery about crude, gullible Americans. When the dialogue is witty, Hollywood entertains. But its subject is essentially passing time, and reading it often feels like an exercise in doing just that...