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Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
August 6, 2002
Judge Gladys Kessler of Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.,
ruled that the Bush Administration has no right to withhold the
identities of people it has detained as part of the September 11
investigation, and she gave the government 15 days to release the
names. "The first priority of the judicial branch," she said, "must be
to ensure that our government always operates within the statutory and
constitutional constraints which distinguish a democracy from a
dictatorship," and such oversight in this case is currently
impossible. "Secret arrests are a concept odious to a democratic
society," she added, and "as of this moment the public does not know
how many persons the government has arrested and detained as part of
its September 11 investigation, nor does it know who most of them are,
where they are, and whether they are represented by counsel."
A British court ruled that a law used to detain foreigners without
charging them with crimes was discriminatory, disproportionate, and
illegal.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened hearings on
whether to invade Iraq, which this week invited United Nations arms
inspectors to Baghdad for talks.
Senator Trent Lott claimed that
President Bush does not need congressional approval to invade Iraq
since he was given the authority last fall to pursue military action
against Al Qaeda. The senator said that he "suspects" there are Al
Qaeda elements in Iraq.
President Bush signed a corporate crime bill
and declared an end to the era of "easy money for corporate
criminals."
Two former executives at WorldCom were arrested and
paraded in handcuffs before photographers.
A federal judge told the
White House that specific reasons must be given for withholding
records from Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, which are
being sought in a lawsuit charging that energy companies had
inappropriate influence on the proceedings, and that claims of
"executive privilege" are not sufficient.
Little Richard announced
that he would retire from rock and roll at the end of the year.
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-- Roger D. Hodge
Question Mark #8
Money
Question Mark #8: Money
(turn up your speakers!)
Reader Review
Wynton Marsalis Septet At Tanglewood
by Nancy Maynard
In June I was lucky enough to hear the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Brad Mehldau Trio at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA.
If you are not familiar with Wolf Trap, it was a farm donated as a National Park where concerts are held in the summer months in the Northern VA area. The concert
I had anticipated for months was of the great Jazz trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis, a spokesman for Jazz, a classically trained Julliard allumni, and a virtuoso musician.
My friend Diane and I had a picnic consisting of mostly Indian food as this is my latest cullinary passion. We did have fried chicken and tandoori chicken,
Indian sour chickpeas, Diane's delicious potato salad, some pickled olives, peppers and assorted raw veggies. Diane's red wine selection was great, and she kept
us supplied with plenty of bottled water. In all, a great picnic.
The hot humid night started with the Brad Mehldau Trio. They came out very unpretensiously in dockers and t-shirts and began to weave a sort of background music to
start the show. While I had never heard of them, I was greatly impressed, especially with the pianism of Brad Mehldau. Echos of Dave Brubeck, without copying Dave
Brubeck, and a few stray Rachmonanv licks cued me into his classical training. Very laid back, though. Some beautiful moments.
I was so impressed by them that I bought their album, Progression, art of the trio, volume 5. The album is spectacular, even better than the concert where the sun was
pouring in its heat on that hot Sunday evening.
But the greatest excitement was yet to come. I really don't know how to describe the Septet. These handsome men all dressed in beautiful suits in all that heat! Their pride
in the music was so deep, they gave it all. I don't even know the names of most of the pieces. I know they started with "Sunflowers" from the Marciac Suite.
Some summers I have a defining summer song that sums up the experiences and my emotions for that particular summer (it's the same with Christmas). One summer it was the New
Age group Acoustic Alchemy and their piece "Natural Elements". This year it is "Sunflowers". Since this concert I have immersed myself in Wynton's Jazz albums. But let's get back to the concert.
I've not gone to Jazz concerts before. So I'm not really sure if people will consider my comments hokey or what (on the other hand, my mother frequented Miles Davis concerts in
the 40's in DC and knows a great deal more about Jazz concerts.) This was the greatest live concert event I've ever been to. I love all kinds of music and frequent the NSO (National
Symphony Orchestra), I also love folk music. Damn I love everything good but this was monumental!
The music that was played that night was like all great Jazz - improvsational - they'll never play it the same again and you won't experience what I did. Diane felt
we should leave to avoid the crowd after about the third encore. I obnoxiously lingered at the balcony every chance I got. There are no words to describe the encores except to say
these serious intrumentalists were now singing!
They closed the concert with New Orleans funeral music (ha-ha for the death of Jazz!) and it sort of turned into a big New Orleans party!
~~ Nancy Maynard
Sounds like a great time, Nancy! Was lucky enough to grow up with cable, but, way back then, the reason for cable was lack of signal reception. We had the major networks, but PBS was our
sole window on culture. This was back when they'd air Edward Albee plays, dialog uncut! First time I ever heard a 'goddam' uttered was on PBS. Anyway, I'm familiar with Tanglewood, and better
off for it.
Thanks, a wonderful report, as always!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another mild day, although the weatherman says it's gonna start getting warmer. Oh well, it is summer!
The gassy cat is still taking her antibiotics. She sure seems to smile a lot in her sleep.
The car wasn't done getting it's new fuel pump until it was too late to consider the drive to San Marino for the stinking corpse plant. Damn.
Joe Bacon sent a link regarding Bill Cardille of 'Night Of The Living Dead' fame. Thanks, Joe. Hope to work it in later in the week.
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', then a fresh 'Big Brother 3' followed by '48 Hours'.
On a rerun Dave, the scheduled guests are Sarah Michelle Gellar and John McEnroe.
On what seems to be a rerun Craiggers, the scheduled guests are Director Robert Evans, Jennifer Esposito, and writer Bill Scheft.
NBC a fresh 'Meet My Folks' followed by reruns of 'The West Wing' and 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Jennifer Aniston and comic Justin McKinney.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Paul Rudd and Isaac Mizrahi.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly is David Bowie.
ABC offers 2 rerun 'Jim''s followed by 2 rerun 'Drew Carey''s. They are followed by a fresh 'ICU: Arkansas
Children's Hospital' where sick children (& their parents) are offered up as entertainment, and for commercial $, too.
The WB has the movie 'Happy Campers'.
Faux has a fresh '30 Seconds To Fame', a fresh 'Meet The Marks', then a rerun 'Bernie Mac', and wraps with a fresh
'American Idol: The Search For A Superstar'.
UPN has 2 reruns of 'Enterprise'.
TCM celebrates some historic silent & early-talkie pictures.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Named Greatest Guitarist
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix has been voted the instrument's greatest player in a poll conducted by Total Guitar magazine.
Hendrix, who died in 1970 at the age of 27, beat Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page to the top spot in the poll of the magazine's readers.
Blues veteran Eric Clapton came in third, followed by Slash from Guns N' Roses and Brian May of Queen.
Younger talents also made the top 100, including Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead at 35 and Noel Gallagher from Oasis at 50.
Johnny Ramone of The Ramones — who built a long career on rudimentary three-chord rock — was 88th.
No woman made the top 100. Only one — Tracy Chapman — was among 440 guitarists nominated by the magazine.
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The Top 20:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Jimmy Page
3. Eric Clapton
4. Slash
5. Brian May
6. Joe Satriani (soloist)
7. Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)
8. Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
9. Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
10. Steve Vai (soloist)
11. Carlos Santana (Santana)
12. James Hetfield (Metallica)
13. Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine)
14. Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
15. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)
16. Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne)
17. Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy, others)
18. Jeff Beck (Cream, Yardbirds, others)
19. Stevie Ray Vaughan (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Double Trouble)
20. Angus Young
'No Doubt'
Gwen Stefani
Gwen Stefani, of the band No Doubt, and her fiance, singer Gavin Rossdale, arrive at the premiere of the film "XXX" in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 5, 2002.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Another Reason To Visit Las Vegas!
NBC Show Testing Center At The Venetian
Las Vegas, the glitzy desert city known more for gambling than family values, is earning a newfound respect among TV networks that see its diverse base of visitors as fertile ground for testing new shows.
In the city's latest gain on the television front, NBC said on Tuesday it will anchor a new show-testing facility now under construction at the Venetian resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
In the NBC development, the network will become the anchor tenant for a facility slated to open late this year at the Venetian, said Alan Wurtzel, president of research and media development for NBC, a unit of General Electric Co..
The new facility, designed to draw on the estimated 45,000 people that pass through the Venetian each day, will include four screening rooms, two that seat 24 people and two that seat 12.
Each seat will be outfitted with a touch screen that allows viewers to watch a show or movie, then touch the screen to answer questions, said Jim Medick, chief executive of MRCGroup Research Institute, which will operate the facility.
The NBC initiative comes just over a year after CBS, unveiled its own new testing center at the MGM Grand.
NBC Show Testing Center At The Venetian
'Free Willy' Star Heeds Call of the Wild
Keiko
Keiko the whale, star of the hit film "Free Willy," is adjusting to life in the wild after years in captivity and now lives with a school of killer whales off Iceland's south coast, scientists said Tuesday.
Keiko was captured near Iceland as a young calf and performed in marine amusement parks in Canada and Mexico for almost 20 years. He was returned to Iceland in 1998 after people saw him as the captive
whale in the 1993 movie "Free Willy" and campaigned for him to go home.
In early July, Keiko's trainers escorted the 25-year-old whale to an open ocean area inhabited by wild killer whales. Keiko stayed with the whales for four days but then returned to the sea pen where he
has been fed and trained for four years.
On July 17 the trainers again took him back to the other whales, and Keiko -- who is being monitored with two tracking devices attached to his fin -- seems to have stayed with them since, Hallsson said.
Keiko
Getting Women To Drink More
British Campaign
British beer lovers have enlisted the support of a Sumerian goddess in their efforts to shake off the masculine image of their favorite tipple.
Fed up with the drink's beer bellied image, the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) said on Tuesday it had adopted the goddess Ninkasi -- said to have created a recipe for beer 4,000 years ago -- as patron in
a bid to attract more women to the pumps.
Ninkasi, worshipped by one of the world's earliest civilizations in what is now Iraq in around 3500 BC, is thought to be one of the early brewers of beer.
She was worshipped by both men and women at a time when ale was made and served exclusively by women.
Camra decided to adopt the cult after its research revealed that less than a quarter of British women had tried real cask ale in a pub, Benner said.
Awash in Crime Next Season
Prime-Time TV
Evidently, the major U.S. television networks believe that crime does pay.
In a glut of cop and detective shows not seen since the heyday of 1970s hits like "Kojak," "S.W.A.T." and "Police Woman," prime time will be awash in crime when the new TV season kicks off next month.
No fewer than 19 crime and cop-oriented dramas are on the schedule of new and returning shows slated for this fall by the Big Four broadcasters -- NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox.
That's at least six more than at the start of last season -- if you count the emergent sub-genre of crime fighters and "evil-doers" in spy series like "The Agency," "Alias" and "24." And that translates into
almost as many hours of TV crime and punishment as there are hours of prime time in a given week.
"If this were 1978, that would probably be just about right. But in 2002, I think it's maybe 16 cop shows too many," said Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television.
For a lot more, Prime-Time TV
Show Debuts Strongly
Anna Nicole Smith
E! Entertainment on Tuesday said the debut of its "reality" show starring former Playboy Playmate and Texas oil tycoon widow Anna Nicole Smith ranked as its highest-rated program premiere
ever and was also the top debut for a reality show on basic cable.
A spokeswoman said the Sunday debut of the half-hour show, which chronicles the outlandish life of the now plus-sized Smith, 34, her beloved dog Sugar Pie and her entourage,
logged a 4.1 rating, which translates to over 4 million viewers.
While the numbers appeared impressive, critics were not as enamored with the show about the former Vickie Lynn Smith (also known as Vickie Lynn Hogan and Vickie Lynn Marshall) of
Texas who started her rise to celebrity as a topless dancer before becoming a Playboy Playmate in 1992.
Comparing the present state of American popular culture to the Caligula era in ancient Rome, Washington Post television critic Ken Ringle said "The Anna Nicole Show" was like a trip
to the vomitorium. The program showed her slurring her words and getting stuck under a table as she travels through Hollywood house-hunting.
New York Times critic Caryn James called the Smith show a "cruel joke of a reality series" that is in the "forefront of the latest wave of reality programs, freak shows that are
a step below celebrity boxing."
Anna Nicole Smith
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Adds Knighthood to Honors
Alan Greenspan
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will soon share something in common with luminaries such as rock star Mick Jagger, Persian Gulf War Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and former U.S. president Ronald Reagan -- honorary British knighthood.
The British Treasury announced on Tuesday that Queen Elizabeth had approved granting the honor to Greenspan, who has led the U.S. central bank since August 1987.
Greenspan will formally receive the award when he next visits Britain.
Alan Greenspan
Hatteras, N.C.
USS Monitor
A crane lifts the gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor from 240 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Aug. 5, 2002. The turret is the biggest piece of wreckage
recovered during a salvage operation run by the Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which controls the underwater sanctuary.
Photo by Steve Earley
Filming Stirs Miami Road Rage
'Bad Boys' Sequel
Hollywood filmmakers shooting a Will Smith - Martin Lawrence sequel are the bad boys of south Florida this week as they tie up the main road between downtown Miami and Miami Beach for a movie
scene that has motorists in a road rage.
Drivers found their usual 15-minute commute between the city and the island stretched to more than an hour due to the closure of MacArthur Causeway, which offered the makers of "Bad Boys 2" a
backdrop of luxury cruise ships and some of Miami's flashiest homes along the main ship channel and bay islands.
Government officials who approved the four-day closure of a road that carries more than 90,000 cars a day promised a payout of $20 million to the local economy.
The closure left drivers fuming in overheating cars in 90-degree weather.
'Bad Boys' Sequel
BartCop TV!
Trimming 800 Jobs
Clear Channel
Radio broadcasting giant Clear Channel Communications laid off 630 staffers through the end of June in connection with the acquisitions of live-event promoter SFX and broadcaster AMFM, the company
disclosed in its quarterly report to the Securities & Exchange Commission last week.
Clear Channel, which has closed offices of AMFM and SFX in New York and Texas and discontinued other operations, plans to eliminate 170 more jobs as a result of the restructuring. Clear Channel
had a total of roughly 36,000 employees worldwide at the end of February.
The San Antonio-based company also said it has accrued $78.9 million in severance and lease-termination costs at the end of June stemming from the retool.
Clear Channel has been aggressively consolidating the radio and live entertainment sectors over the past six years. The 2000 purchases of SFX, for $4 billion, and AMFM, $16 billion, have been Clear Channel's most ambitious.
Clear Channel Communications
Giant Jimmy Hat, Day 2
Cerne Abbas Giant
The Cerne Abbas Giant, a giant fertility symbol cut into a hillside in southern England, bore a new accessory on Monday: a 21-foot condom.
In a publicity stunt carried out by the British Family Planning Association to raise sexual health awareness, the 197-foot tall figure famous for its erect phallus was
adorned with the huge sheath overnight Sunday.
The image, etched into the chalk rock of a Dorset hillside, is believed to date from the second millennium BC. At least one couple claim to have cured their infertility
by making love in its one-foot-wide trenches.
Cerne Abbas Giant
Treated for Cancer
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts says she is being treated for breast cancer that was detected in the early stages and that she does not expect any major disruption in her work schedule at ABC News.
She told The Washington Post in Tuesday's editions that her doctor detected a suspicious lump in mid-June and a subsequent mammogram revealed a small tumor in her left breast.
She underwent a successful lumpectomy at Washington's Sibley Hospital two weeks ago, she told the paper.
Roberts, 58, had already announced her departure from "This Week," the Sunday panel show she has co-anchored with Sam Donaldson since 1996, before receiving the diagnosis. She
said the cancer was caught early and she expects a clean bill of health after six months of chemotherapy.
She said the treatments, scheduled to start this week, won't "cause any major interference with my work" as a political analyst and commentator covering the midterm elections.
Cokie Roberts
Philadelphia Museum
Lost Highways Museum and Research Archive
Flip through the FM radio dial and it won't be long before you hear a country tune or power ballad bemoaning the pain and strife of "life on the road."
But step inside a little-known downtown Philadelphia museum, and a very different message emerges: Motoring is cool — and if it's not fun, you're not doing it right.
"After Henry Ford and the Model T made driving affordable, then came the Sunday driver," said Todd Kimmell, the founder of Lost Highways Museum and Research Archive, a
10-year-old ode to the road. "That day trip turned into an overnighter, then a three-day weekend, then a week's vacation. People fell in love with the physical beauty of America."
Kimmell, 41, is a historian, lecturer and archivist who stands 6-foot-7 and calls himself a "punk rock Fred Sanford." Like the TV junkman, he begs, bids, barters and
Dumpster-dives for items chronicling what he calls "the history of living on wheels" up to the 1970s.
"It's where architectural and automotive history, culture and design all come together," Kimmell said.
The museum illustrates how America's newfound mobility changed its culture, displaying pulp novels about less-than-virtuous "trailer camp girls" and children's games like the
1950s-era "Let's Take a Trip! The Superhighway Game."
For more, Lost Highways Museum and Research Archive
Lost Highways Museum
Detroit Public Library Automotive Collection
Hit Song Criticizing Fox
'Los Tigres del Norte'
The latest accordion-driven hit by Los Tigres del Norte pounds from cantina jukeboxes and is belted out by street musicians, but you won't hear it on the radio.
Some in the music industry accuse radio stations of steering clear of "Chronicle of a Change" because they fear losing government advertising, a mainstay for most Mexican media.
Servando Cano, spokesman for Los Tigres del Norte, was reluctant to talk about the song's lyrics or the chilly reception it received from radio stations.
There is no evidence Fox has used his power to retaliate against unfavorable media depictions — even though, two years after he was elected, his inability to produce concrete results has
bred hundreds of unflattering cartoons, editorials and television satires. His office did not immediately return calls for comment on "Chronicle of Change."
But some people say the fear of retaliation is enough to keep the song off the air — especially in conservative northern Mexico, where support for Fox's National Action Party is strong.
The group has waded into presidential politics before in a 30-year career known for colorful, Western-style costumes, four-hour-plus performances and songs chronicling everything from love affairs
to the travails of immigrants in the United States.
'Los Tigres del Norte'
'Los Tigres del Norte'
'Chronicle of a Change'
Lyrics of "Chronicle of a Change" by Mexican group Los Tigres del Norte. Translated from Spanish by The Associated Press.
We hit a crooked chord, and it brought change,
and workers don't get a living wage
and farmers are left in the dust
by the new guys running agriculture.
Beef imports are running high,
but what are they selling?
Me, I'm turning vegetarian
because I'm sick of the horsemeat they're peddling.
If you're lucky and you buy a car
the police will just hit you up for bribes,
while the corporate bankers get handouts
and congress sits around and doesn't care.
Second-hand American cars are all the poor can get,
Because we can never afford a new one,
But the car manufacturers want to outlaw them
Because they want to protect their luxury.
The guys who run Petroleos Mexicanos
Vacation in Las Vegas like princes
They think they deserve it, or they paid a bribe,
Now, Mr. Zorro, when's this change going to come?
Now that change has come we can all drink a toast
With a glass of Coca-Cola
Because the good guys now wear blue-and-white (colors of the president's political party)
And if you wear boots and like to work in stables
You're sure to make a perfect congressman.
'Chronicle of a Change'
Prime-Time Ratings
Top 20
Prime-time ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research for July 29-August 4. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with rating for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses.
An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation. The rating is the percentage of the nation's estimated 105.5 million TV homes. Each ratings point represents 1,055,000 households.
1. (2) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 10.5, 11.1 million homes.
2. (32)"48 Hours-Monday," CBS, 8.6, 9.1 million homes.
3. (6) "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 8.5, 9.0 million homes.
3. (9) "Law & Order," NBC, 8.5, 9.0 million homes.
5. (13) "Becker," CBS, 7.8, 8.3 million homes.
6. (37) "Dateline NBC-Tuesday," NBC, 7.6, 8.1 million homes.
7. (16) "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.5, 8.0 million homes.
8. (64) "American Idol-Tuesday," Fox, 7.1, 7.5 million homes.
9. (5) "Friends," NBC, 6.8, 7.2 million homes.
9. (42) "Primetime Thursday," ABC, 6.8, 7.2 million homes.
11. (58) "Dog Eat Dog," NBC, 6.7, 7.1 million homes.
11. (36) "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 6.7, 7.0 million homes.
13. (24) "King Of Queens," CBS, 6.4, 6.7 million homes.
13.(16) "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit," NBC, 6.4, 6.7 million homes.
15. (64) "Big Brother 3-Wednesday," CBS, 6.3, 6.7 million homes.
16. (75) "American Idol-Wednesday," Fox, 6.2, 6.5 million homes.
16. (14) "Will & Grace," NBC, 6.2, 6.5 million homes.
16. (26) "Yes, Dear," CBS, 6.2, 6.5 million homes.
19. (42) "60 Minutes II," CBS, 6.1, 6.4 million homes.
19. (46) "Fear Factor," NBC, 6.1, 6.4 million homes.
Top 20
In Memory
Matthew Robinson Jr.
Matt Robinson, a writer for the 1980s sitcom "The Cosby Show" and the first actor to play kindly neighbor Gordon on the children's show "Sesame Street," died in his sleep Monday after a 20-year struggle with Parkinson's disease. He was 65.
Robinson began his show-business career in 1963 as a writer, producer and on-air talent at TV station WCAU in Philadelphia.
In 1969, he took the role of Gordon on the PBS children's program "Sesame Street" and also performed the voice of purple-faced puppet Roosevelt Franklin. Robinson remained with the show until 1971.
Robinson went on to produce and write the films "Save The Children" (1973) and "Amazing Grace" (1974). He also wrote several plays.
As a television writer, he penned scripts for "Sanford and Son" and "Eight is Enough."
He joined with fellow Philadelphia native Bill Cosby in 1983 as a staff writer and producer for the comedian's NBC family sitcom "The Cosby Show."
Though impaired muscle coordination from his Parkinson's disorder made work difficult at times, Robinson remained with the show for seven seasons.
Matthew Robinson Jr.
In Memory
Joshua Ryan Evans
Joshua Ryan Evans, the 3-foot-2 actor who played Timmy the living doll on the NBC soap "Passions," died during a medical procedure, the network said Tuesday. He was 20.
Evans, who was born with a rare disease that stunted his growth, died at a San Diego hospital Monday, NBC publicist Lauren Townsend said. The cause of death and the nature of the medical procedure were not immediately disclosed.
On Monday's episode of "Passions," taped last month, Evans' character died. On the show, Timmy was a doll created by a witch and was recently turned into a real boy.
The Timmy role won Evans two consecutive Soap Opera Digest Awards for outstanding male scene stealer.
Evans was 12 when he got national exposure in a Dreyer's Ice Cream commercial titled "The Dancing Baby." The commercial won a Cleo Award and resulted in a role for Evans in the movie "Baby Geniuses."
His TV credits included "Ally McBeal," which featured him as young lawyer Oren, Ally's nemesis. He was also featured as Tom Thumb in the A&E miniseries "P.T. Barnum" and was in Showtime's "Poltergeist: The Legacy."
He also played the young grinch in the movie "The Grinch."
Funeral arrangements were not immediately disclosed.
Joshua Ryan Evans
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