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CULTURE: Fit for a Queen...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ SHOULD CHECK OUT HIS CLIENT LIST THESE days. It appears to need a little updating. The famed appellate attorney is denying rumors that he is no longer on the team of hotel queen Leona Helmsley and saying he continues to work behind the scenes for the Queen of Mean, who is now in prison after being convicted of tax evasion. But Milton Gould, who heads Helmsley's new legal effort, bluntly says Dershowitz is out of the picture. "He is not acting for her any longer," Gould says of Dershowitz. "He is not doing anything that I know...
...cynical, twisted" (Precious). If Emily Dickinson were to show up at the Betty Ford Center, she might testify, as Lennox does in Legend in My Living Room, "I've shed my tears in bitter drops/ Until the thorn trees bloomed/ To take the spiky fruit to crown/ Myself the Queen of Doom." The whole glorious album plays like an atonement for the excesses of the '80s. The punishment is remembrance...
...action centers, naturally enough, on the judge, who sits behind his desk in the front of the room. The assistant clerk, the probation officer, and the lawyers buzz about the judge like workers attending the queen bee. They all mumble, and it is difficult to her the proceedings when sitting in the benches behind the railing that divides the judicial arena from the waiting area...
Neither he nor the Foundation, and not even The Crimson, are "the problem" here, but by spinning this unpleasant discussion into a referendum on Dr. Counter with the Red Queen's cry of "off with his head," the problem of acute distemper to which his letter addressed itself is once again evaded. Shame on those who would have...