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A front-page WP piece reminds us that it's unfair to depict everybody in Congress as crooked clowns.
It's a mustache on the Mona Lisa--or maybe a big, crooked dick on the cover of All the President's Men . Simply put, the movie makes the charming case that Deep Throat, Bob Woodward's pseudonymous high-level source, was not (as recent "Chatterbox" columns have speculated) an FBI honcho such as W. Mark Felt, but two bubble-headed 15-year-old blondes.
[From a review by George Stade of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's A Crooked Man, in The New York Times, 21 February 1995.]
The NYT reports that a surprising witness appeared before a NYC City Council hearing on police reform: former NYPD whistleblowing cop Frank Serpico, who called for an independent police monitoring board to investigate police wrongdoing and "create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around."
Raves, however, for Nicolas Cage's performance as the sleazy, brown polyester clad Rick Santoro, a crooked local cop: Jay Carr of the Boston Globe glows, "[Cage] suggests an oven-fresh, cheese-filled, glazed meatloaf."