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Nothing Lefty says or does comes out right--especially his adoption of a protégé, a young jewel thief called "Donnie Brasco" (Johnny Depp) who turns out, of course, to be an undercover FBI agent.
Christopher, Tony's protégé, has a new gig as an SEC compliance officer involving some complicated scheme to dump crummy stock on unsuspecting widows and shut-ins, but basically he's the same asshole junkie he always was, and has taken to fighting in bars with Ariana, his girlfriend.
Pataki's former protégé, Rep.
In Israel itself, the daily Ha'aretz led Monday with a report that former Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, who appointed Benjamin Netanyahu as his top aide at the Israeli Embassy in Washington in 1982, has decided to stand against his former protégé for the leadership of the Likud Party and as its candidate for prime minister in the May elections.
The real creative story is the collusion between Groening and James L. Brooks, former Mary Tyler Moore Show staffer and creator of flicks such as Broadcast News and Ordinary People . Brooks (and his protégé, Sam Simon) brought with him the story discipline that made The Simpsons such great television.