“The one sentiment that I have heard that I take great exception to is that the city is trying to limit speech,” said Rumley. “The notion the city would censor or squelch free speech is baseless and as city solicitor I would find any such effort repugnant.”
Right. Where's our TV station. The above was noted by a lawyer on November 15, 2008 to a retired judge.
http://freespeechmedford.blogspot.com/
but tensions soon boil when the press get wind of the dead mobsters (doesn't the critic mean the dead cop's connection?) connection to the head of a crime family, Paul Zapatti, and questions about the dead mobsters last sentence from Judge Walter Stern (Martin Landau), an old associate of the mayor who handed down a suspiciously lenient sentence. Zapatti wants the newspapers to stop running the story about his connection to the death of a young boy (Zapatti should've purchased McGlynn's trademarked Media Blackout and Censorship Insurance, only $9.95 and two or three juvenile delinquents to carry out the dirty deeds...) and so enlists the help of Frank Anselmo (Danny Aiello) a prominent city councillor who is desperately trying to get the mayor to build a new subway stop in his district, to plant money at the police man’s holiday shack and posthumously tarnish his reputation. This then brings Marybeth Cogan (Bridget Fonda) into the equation, a lawyer representing the cop’s widow who in defence of her client seeks to clear his unfairly sullied name.
http://www.leftfieldcinema.com/overlooked-gems-city-hall
Sheesh...we wanted casting director Park Marenteau from the Dawn & Larry stables* to tell us how this creepy film titled CITY HALL could, quite possibly, have its sequel filmed in Meffa but this writer had to attend a board meeting when Park was available at the party at Jerry Remy's restaurant so we got the usual "no comment" by not even asking the question...if that makes any sense. Oh, and Dawn was booted on 10/29/08, 13 months before Park Marenteau came back to TV3, but it is still nice to blame her for something. How do we know that she didn't book the guest 14 months earlier just to exact her revenge on the city that paid her so handsomely?
Talk about our cable tv monies going south
MEDIA BLACKOUT
courtesy of coward Michael J. McGlynn
