The Boston Phoenix January 26 - February 1, 1996: Vol 25 Iss 4

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DINING OUT ~
Charlotte Bruce Harvey finds stylish atmosphere
and hearty food at-Isabella, in Dedham. Plus, Pep-
permills’ excellent sandwiches and Mrs. Wiggles Rocket
Juice.
10 DINING GUIDE
Stepping out and filling up: our expanded neighborhood-by-neigh-
borhood guide to local restaurants.
15 THE PUZZLE by Don Rubin
PHOENIX FLASHBACKS 16 PERSONALS
THIS JUST IN 20 CLASSIFIEDS
Steve Forbes’s commercials don’t exactly
play fair; the Brattle Theatre is figuring out
ARTS
a way to get by; Al Franken chats about
eé . . otal
Rush Limbaugh; and the Phoenix takes its
eerEeeRR etEe rn place on the national literary scene. MAVERICK mugger targets
10 DON’T QUOTE ME by Dan Kennedy Latinos in Eastie. News, 20. 2 8 DAYS A WEEK
As a three-year-old libel case comes to trial, the Boston Globe and a handful Turn to “Flicks in a Flash,” Boston’s most inventive film guide, and read
of New Hampshire businesspeople play “who’s got the facts?” A story of sex, “State of the Art” for news of the arts world. And in “Next Weekend,” Jeffrey
lies, more lies, and Albania. Gantz says nothing plays the Brattle like Casablanca.
12 TALKING POLITICS by Al Giordano FILM
What does a 47-year-old millionaire have to offer the state’s worried middle Thumbs up from Peter Keough for Jennifer Jason Leigh and Georgia, from
class? In this case, a source of independent ideas. MassINC, Mitch Kertz- Gary Susman for Restoration, and from Steve Vineberg for Sister My Sister.
man’s think tank, prepares to release its first study. Plus, a qualified recommendation for Screamers.
14 FREEDOM WATCH by Harvey Silverglate THEATER
You might expect a major law school to be a bulwark against violations of Bill Marx finds The Search for
First Amendment rights. In the case of Harvard Law School, with its new Signs of Intelligent Life in the
sexual-harassment guidelines, you’d be wrong. Universe less intelligent without
16 WELD’S PRINCE OF DARKNESS by Tim Sandler Lily Tomlin; Matt Ashare gets
down with Acme Theatr’s McBeth.
Transportation Secretary James Kerasiotes wears his heartlessness on his
sleeve. But does spying on state workers, threatening staffers, and flouting 10 TELEVISION
public-records laws mean he’s the state’s answer to Richard Nixon? Governor Steve Vineberg says PBS’s The Bat-
Weld doesn’t think so. tle over Citizen Kane is entertain-
CITYSCAPE by Sarah McNaught ing but not always responsible; Jef-
Police hunt for a Maverick Square mugger who preys on Latino immigrants, frey Gantz applauds A&E’s Pride
and the Fenway Civic Association fights to restore the missing link in the and Prejudice; Gary Susman is
Emerald Necklace, Boston’s chain of parklands. similarly enthusiastic about HBO’s
The Celluloid Closet.
11 DANCE
STYLES
Last week’s Celebrity Series
engagement introduced Thea
Singer to the lighter side of
BEST BUYS by Myfanwy Collins Martha Graham.
A pack of Nixons, a sack of beer, and a 12 MUSIC
bag for holding bags. Ted Drozdowski says you shouldn't
CITIZEN WELLES comes to PBs
OUT THERE by Caroline Knapp hesitate to wallow in Ministry’s this week. Arts, 10. |
Naked and alone, Alice K. doesn’t Filth Pig; Lloyd Schwartz checks
know where to look. out the BSO’s recent form; and, in “Cellars by Starlight,” Brett Milano talks
with Slughog and Grind. Plus, Frank Black, Loudon Wainwright III, Jack
THE STRAIGHT DOPE by Cecil Adams
Logan, Dominique Eade and Fred Hersch, and the Dead Man Walking
JEWISH GUYS by Bob Goodman
soundtrack.
Television’s new leading men are hip,
witty, and Jewish.
Se Se
HOW TO COPE WITH MARTHA
22 HOT DOTS 34 PLAY BY PLAY 39 FILM STRIPS
STEWART by Beth Wolfensberger MARTHA STEWART: sadist,
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friday jan. 26
The Boston Phoenix has been covering the of graffiti scrawled on a men’s-room wall at
trends and events that define our times since the Roxbury District Court:
NOCTURNAL
1966. The following selections, culled from
FRIDAYS ONE NIGHT ONLY our back files, were compiled by Chris Wright. The world has made me whate I am
today
WEDNESDAJYAN . 31 MAKE WAR, NOT LOVE With the fools & assholes.
Five years ago: January 25, 1991 I’m a fucken killer
when Dj Bill Abbate spins > At the height of the Gulf War, Sean An I have no heart
the BESTo f the ROCK Flynn attended a protest rally in Washing- — or brains.
REVOLUTION John ton, and witnessed a lack of consensus No shame & no guilt.
among the peaceniks gathered there. But I'll always will be happy.
“A bewildered artist with long hair and a
SAT. JAN. 27 mustache was trying to defend a large UNHOLY MARY
Entwistle
poster he’d obviously put together with 20 years ago: January 27, 1976
nus cP much care that had riled a trio of feminists » As Ken Emerson reported, the naughty
bent more on berating than debating. bits in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
“His sign had a carica- whipped local audiences
OF RETURNS and the ture of a naked Bush, a into a tizzy, but the show
The Best 80's sword in one hand, a really contained nothing
shield covering his weenie more offensive than your
Alternative
in the other. Next to him average episode of Mel-
Dance/Rock was a shiny Trojan hel- rose Place, which raises
met with Barbara’s smil- barely an eyebrow, let
ing face reflected in it. alone an uproar.
GEORGE BUSH, the poster “The Globe and the Her- |
SUNDAYS read, TAKE YOUR NAKED ald have denounced it. Two
AGGRESSION TO BARBARA. Wednesdays ago, WCVB-
One of the women got in TV was deluged with 500
his face: “What you are phone calls, almost all op-
saying is, Don’t commit posed, and since then the
war, commit rape.’ One station has been logging 40
FUNK*R&BeSOUL of her comrades tried to to 45 calls daily, 90 percent
slap a sticker onto the of them negative.
SUN, JAN, 28 poster. The artist jerked it “Any show that broach-
out of the way. She tried #e es, in its very first week,
DOWN LOW again. They scuffled. MARY Hartman wasn’t mass murder, masturba-
‘Hey, hey, hey,’ he said, fit for family newspapers. tion, menstruation, promis-
Tickets available at Mama Kin 536-2100 or at Strawberries ‘Non-violence, remem- cuity, indecent exposure,
CONNECTION
ber?’ She huffed away, then turned on her and apparent impotence is, of course, asking
heel and rushed back: ‘I was not being ag- for it.”
gressive. I was being playful.’ ”
TOWER Reporter/ Maybe Saddam could’ve used that one. SALAD-GATE
25 years ago: January 26, 1971
TUESDAYS News Writer AIDS-B-GONE >» The war in Vietnam was the source of
whbcn Dj Albert 0. 10 years ago: January 28, 1986 many controversies; some are still bitterly
Spins 100% Local Music We seek a reporter/news writer to fill in for a 3 » Put it down to the indomitable human contested to this day. Few, however, raged
& Free Giveaways From month period starting in mid to late March. spirit: if there’s an explosion at a sewage as fiercely as the Antle lettuce scandal, in
plant, someone will be out there selling shit which the DoD was found to be buying its
Tower Records Every Week Responsibilities include developing ideas for
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TUES. JAN. 30 and writing major feature stories, as well as malignancy. Jane Goldberg investigated.
JEN TRYNIN shorter news items. Minimum 3 yrs. experience “The manufacturers of a pocket-size “I spoke to Mr. McCarthy, staff assistant
anti-viral spray, Virus Guard, target people to the Director for Subsistence Manage-
required. Salary commensurate with experience.
who fear they can contract AIDS from cut- ment, and he seemed prepared for my call.
lery or a toilet seat. Their advertisement “There are three factors in determining
Please fax or send resume with SALARY promises protection from ‘colds, flu, and how we buy lettuce: its availability, quality of
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http://www. The Providence Phoenix “The ad’s most dubious aspect is the blow- ‘just happens to be around, and being bigger
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The Providence Phoenix else. A quick glance makes the label seem to “‘Antle provides a wrapped lettuce,’ Mc-
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AMERICAN GRAFFITI Sean Flynn is a features writer for the Boston
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THE BOSTON PHOENIX SECTION ONE * JANUARY 26, 1996
POOR GET POORER
BRATTLE PLANS
Taking welfare gripes to the streets
MARK OSTOW
Activists from several communities have come together to fight what
they call a “harsh and unfair” welfare-reform law that went into effect in
November.
Every Wednesday night from 5 to 6:30, 20 demonstrators, led by Cam-
bridge-based activist Rebecca Johnson, gather outside South Station, leaflet-
ing and holding placards that read, WELFARE CUTS — NOT IN OUR NAMES and
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE WELFARE RECIPIENTS. . . .
“Our ultimate goal is to see a fair and unbiased debate about access to
welfare,” says Johnson. “There also needs to be a real discussion of the
availability of work in the state.”
The law, which Governor Weld backed, cuts welfare provisions for
teenage mothers, puts caps on family incomes, and reduces the amount of
welfare available overall.
Johnson says women, in particular, are being targeted by the new reform.
One out of every two single-mother families in Massachusetts is poor, ac-
cording to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Devel-
opment, and two out of three poor adults are women.
“The so-called welfare-reform law punishes poor women and their chil-
dren,” says Debbie Lubarr, another vigil organizer. “It creates situations that
make it even more difficult for women to provide for their children.”
For more information about the vigil, call [phone].
— Sarah McNaught
RUSH TO JUDGMENT
Al Franken is a small, skinny liberal
Former Saturday Night Live the book isn’t. Was there a reason
comic and writer Al Franken has you decided to write a book that
finally given American liberals took a strong, political stance?
something to laugh about (al- A: Yeah, this is me under my
though he couldn’t have done it own name, and these are my
without help from their neme- views. When you’re doing SNL,
ses). Franken will be at the Bos- you have a staff of 15 writers, 10
ton University Barnes and No- or so performers, and producers,
ble, in Kenmore Square, on so the show doesn’t have a politi-
Monday, January 29, at 7 p.m. cal view, and it shouldn’t have
to promote his new book, Rush one. On the show, being funny
Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and was our main thing.
Other Observations (Delacorte Q: How did you approach
Press). We talked to Franken writing comic prose?
about the book, SNL, and, of A: I would try to find a
course, everybody’s favorite big, premise or a concept — in some
fat idiot. chapters more than others. The
[fake book review] by Jeane
Q: Have you had any reaction Kirkpatrick was written in a cer-
to the book from Limbaugh? tain voice. The chapter “Opera-
A: Not yet. I had a letter sent tion Chicken Hawk” is a parody SCREEN SAVERS: “We're not trying to
to him from the publisher, saying, of a form, which is cheap war sell out,” says Marianne Lampke (left), co-
“Dear Rush, Al thinks it may help fiction. What was scariest was
director, with Connie White, of Cambridge’s
sell the book if you mention the writing in my voice. I really
book on your show.” haven’t written much in that : financially unstable Brattle Theatre.
way. Pik. Arcee
Q: When The Satanic
Verses was published, a Film fans rally to repay art-house debt
death warrant was put out on
Salman Rushdie. Do you ex-
pect a similar reaction from “We’re not in trouble to ing rebuilding the projection vorites, each contributed
the Michigan Militia? the point of changing our booth. free by the film’s distributor:
: A: Boy, I hope not. programming, and we're “Maybe because of our Nashville and Chinatown,
Salman and I were near paying our bills,” says Mari- programming, there’s a mis- January 28 (Paramount
each other when I was in anne Lampke, co-director of conception that we’re a non- Repertory); Casablanca and
Washington, and some Cambridge’s Brattle The- profit theater, a community- The Big Sleep, February 3
people asked, “What ad- atre. “But it’s time to ac- run place,” Lampke ex- (MGM/UA Classics and
vice do you have for knowledge out loud that, as plains. “But Running Arts is Turner Entertainment);
Salman?” and | said, an independent art house, our company, our small Apocalypse Now and Blade
“Stay away from me.” we have to do more than just business, and people need to Runner, February 11 (Films
Q: What will you be sit out our problems. We understand that we're like a Incorporated and Kit Parker
reading from when you have to forge a creative col- mom-and-pop drugstore Films).
visit the BU Barnes and laboration with another having a very hard time stay- And a Brattle business
Noble Monday? group.” ing competitive. Running old partner? “We've met with
A: I actually don’t Everyone admires the movies as the Brattle does, every exhibitor in town in
know. I have Harry Brattle’s program, usually a is, let’s face it, not a great the last three months,”
Thomason handle different double feature each lucrative idea, though it’s Lampke says. “We’re offer-
all my traveling, day. But Lampke and Con- something we do happily for ing a high-grossing screen in
and he does a really nie White, who have man- film fanatics.” a great neighberhcodswand
good job. aged the Brattle for the past What film fanatics can do we're looking for someone
Q: If you lived in Massachu- nine years through their for Running Arts is become with clout to get things
- When I appeared on setts, whom would you vote for in company, Running Arts, Brattle members. A $50 mem- done.” That means a partner
CNN, I got some negative re- the Bill Weld-John Kerry Senate Inc., foot the bills alone. bership, good for a year, enti- who can get the Brattle the
sponse from some dittoheads. race. Those expenses begin with tles subscribers to buy tickets occasional high-recognition,
They didn’t quite get the irony A: I kind of like both guys. | $14,000 per week for over- for $4 — plus receive a first-run art feature that now
that [Rush] is a man who attacks think Kerry’s a good senator. If I head — a frightening figure poster, a T-shirt, and other routinely goes to the Kendall
people. I don’t think didiots are were up there, I’d vote for Kerry. for a one-screen theater bonuses. “Recently we’ve got- Square or the Nickelodeon.
real high on irony. Q: What didn’t you like about committed to revival films ten 150 new Brattle members, “We're not trying to sell
Q: Do you think that, deep this interview? from the Golden Age of and that’s very moving,” out or leave town,” Lampke
down, Rush is a sensitive soul? A: The silence on the other end Hollywood, offbeat first-run Lampke says, who applies the says emphatically. “We have
A: I think he is a vulnerable of the Thomason line. features, women’s films, and membership money to retire another five years on our
soul but not a sensitive soul. — Mark Bazer gay-and-lesbian cinema. Si- the Brattle debt. current Brattle lease, and we
Q: Would you play tennis with multaneously, Lampke and Brattle fans can also at- want to do everything to
Rush, if he invited you? Mark Bazer reviews Rush Lim- White are struggling to re- tend a series of fundraiser keep alternative program-
A: Yes. baugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Oth- duce the $100,000 debt that screenings in January and ming. But we can’t do it on
Q: Saturday Night Live is a er Observations on the Book- the Brattle accrued fixing up February. Running Arts will our Own, not any more.”
show people from both ends of the marks page of the Phoenix Liter- the ancient theater, includ- reprise Brattle all-time fa- — Gerald Peary
political spectrum can enjoy — ary Section, in this issue.
THE BOSTON PHOENIX * SECTION ONE JANUARY 26, 1996
RADIO FREE MARY
Matalin takes to the airwaves in Boston
We fall upon the thorns of life; we bleed
When GOP political consul- hours with a guest from her long Ever on the lookout for break- spending time and money confirm- cash is helping to fund such invalu-
tant Mary Matalin directed the list of contacts among Washing- through medical news, the ing what’s bloody obvious, guys. able research.
| "92 re-election campaign of ton insiders — Larry King, Tim Phoenix has just learned of a When our next ludicrously inflated Elsewhere, the APA cites a study
| President George Bush, she Russert, Jeb Bush. One night, a rather startling revelation in psy- medical bill leaves us feeling de- entitled, “A Meta-Analytic Review
| found herself sparring on talk- scheduled guest didn’t show, chology — STUDY SUPPORTS THEO- pressed, we'll take comfort in the of the Effects of Financial Incen-
| radio programs with the likes of leaving Matalin to converse with RY THAT NEGATIVE LIFE EVENTS AF- knowledge that our hard-earned tives on Recovery After Closed-
Don Imus, Rush Limbaugh, and her listeners solo. Lightning FECT MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH. Yes, Head Injury,” which observes that
Gene Burns. She was so good at struck, and the solo flights are apparently it’s true. In the January “[v]ictims of head injuries often re-
it that after the election CNBC fast becoming a popular feature edition of its bulletin, News Briefs, ceive compensation to alleviate the
signed her to co-host Equal of the program. the American Psychiatric Associa- burden of loss of functioning or in-
Time, a TV talk show. Now, the Interviewed from her Beltway tion cites a study conducted by come,” and then poses the-mind-
turning of the microphone table home — with her Democratic Brigham and Women’s Hospital boggling question, “Does this
is complete: Matalin has husband, political bad-boy James that “followed over 200 men for promise of financial gain lead some
eans yee Carville, and their seven-month- almost 50 years” and discovered patients to exhibit more symptoms
AP/WIDE WORLD old daughter, Mattie, adding that “while there was almost no for a longer time in order to elicit
comments and wails from the correlation between negative life a larger payoff?” Hmm.
peanut gallery — Matalin de- events and physical health, bad Finally, the 1996 Robert T.
scribes her radio callers as “really experiences were found to in- Morse Writer’s Award goes to the
smart.” crease men’s risk of mental ill- authors of an essay titled “Psy-
“They’re frequently telling me ness, particularly depression.” chobattle: Cost-Cutting Firms Mon-
things I don’t know. But, as my The extensive study also identi- itor Couch Time as Therapists
husband says, not having any in- fied the leading causes of men’s de- Fret.” What have they got to fret
formation never stopped me pression as “death of a loved one, about? We’re the ones in the wrong
from having an opinion. One guy unemployment, divorce, and a business. It’s depressing.
called and asked me whatever child’s major illness.” Thanks for — Chris Wright
happened to the suit over the
health-care records that the
White House is trying to keep
private. | was stumped. I just
said, flat out, ‘I don’t know tov.1995 - pp
launched her own talk-radio enough about this.’ ” Sucon kthi s, punks tssee 21
Tabof lConeten ts
show on the CBS network. Matalin is a partisan — still
The Mary Matalin Show is loyal to the Grand Old Party Come February, Lollipop, the free-
now broadcast here in eastern from which she sprang. But she bie underground-music and entertain-
Mass, on Framingham’s WKOX has differed with fellow Republi- ment magazine which, for more than
(1200 AM), from 5 to 8 p.m. cans over abortion (she’s pro- two years, has been available primarily
weekdays. “This is so much fun,” choice) and other matters, which in Boston-area music stores, will hit
exclaims the wisecracking work- makes her political schtick just newsstands with something new: a $2
ing-class gal from the Midwest. unpredictable enough for the for- cover price. According to Kerry Joyce,
“I get to do it in jeans. I get to mat. If nothing else, her entrance production manager and writer for the Bemehousd (202,
NeMromNa, tite fate TheA rent Sreeniom, Reer b
have complete conversations with into this market will sharply raise cutting-edge mag, Lollipop will be SOUNDS FROM UNDERG -ROUND
real people. I totally love it.” the collective 1Q of afternoon available at both independent and and at ge mo> atS tid ien
When the program was drive-time talk-show hosts in chain record stores and at Barnes and tTlorrrore mom ofB rKeaereerm; RFheam, iW,as PMaors oW eeC ksewsel. UM Ccee ti Weeg elcatsewr et eeme
launched, on January 8, Matalin Boston. Noble outlets. “"""ES, VIDEOS+ MectAinNctDiny !, TCVi me-Travk, §
filled each of her daily three — Al Giordano According to publisher Scott Hef-
flon, the monthly will up its press run
to 20,000 copies and will be distribut-
BOOK AWARDS ed nationally — with an emphasis on
\
New England. Each issue, he adds,
will have “a spiffy glossy cover.” But
don’t expect Rolling Stone or Spin.
The National Book Criti ed its 1995 weains The covers “won’t have pictures of
nominees this week, and three oft hem have connections to this pretty rock stars, ” says copy editor and
paper. writer Laura Kallio. Instead, they'll
The path to Robert Palito’s sloaraphy of crime writer Jim feature out-there artwork, as usual.
Thompson, Savage Art, began with an essay review of early Thomp- Heffle = describes Lollipop as a “new
son reprints in the Phoenix (December 10, 1985). Carl Phillips's breed” ,’ publication, “a hybrid of a
poem “Toys,” from his book Cortége, was first published in the *zine and a magazine.” It includes lo-
Phoenix Literary Section (PLS) and later reprinted in Best American Po- cal and national music-scene coverage
etry 1995. And Paul West, a frequent contributor to PLS, is the au- — plus fiction, poetry, full-color art-
thor of the novel The Tent of Orange Mist. work, essays, and book, film, and ’zine
The winners will be announced on March 2! at a ceremony in New reviews. Hefflon estimates that readers
York. fall within the age range of 15 to 35.
The jump to the newsstand is the
second of two big moves for Lollipop,
which relocated to offices in Davis
MILK DUD
Square last summer. According to
Kallio, before that Lollipop was “done
Beware bovine-growth hormone
out of Scott’s bedroom.”
— C. Brian Smith
For two years now, Monsanto need not say on their labels that
Company has been fending off ac- their products come from cows in-
cusations that its genetically engi- jected with rBGH.
neered bovine-growth hormone The new study, published in the
FOUL PLAY
(rBGH) — used to enhance milk January issue of the International
production in cows — is haz- Journal of Health Services, summa-
Steve Forbes's disingenuous piety
ardous to both cattle and humans. rizes evidence that Posilac increas-
There is no credible scientific es levels of insulin-like growth fac-
evidence, Monsanto has insisted, tor (IGF-1) in milk. IGF-I is known Even by the lax standards of like those of the military and a can spend — both provisions
that the product, which cost $500 to be a strong stimulator and regu- political advertising, Republican number of other agencies, had al- aimed at reducing the influence of
million to develop and is sold un- lator of cell growth and cell divi- presidential candidate Steve ready been approved when the special interests and creating a
der the name Posilac, is anything sion in humans and cows, accord- Forbes’s radio spot criticizing his budget impasse roadblocked more level playing field.
but a boon to the dairy industry. ing to the Cancer Prevention rivals for accepting public funds Washington. None of those agen- The notoriously protective
But now comes an alarming new Coalition. Increased IGF-1 levels, for their campaigns is remarkably cies was forced to suspend opera- Forbes campaign declined to re-
study being released this week by the report states, raise the risk of disingenuous. tions. lease the full script of the ad to the
the Cancer Prevention Coalition breast and colon cancer. A stern-sounding narrator in- ® Calling public campaign Phoenix without a detailed de-
that concludes Posilac increases And as it turns out, the coalition tones that during the recent gov- funds “taxpayers’ money” is cor- scription of how the script would
people’s risk of breast and colon reports, Monsanto knew this all ernment shutdown, “Bob Dole rect only in a technical sense. The be used. Nor would the campaign
cancer. along. According to the coalition, a and the other Washington politi- approximately $200 mil- respond to questions about
“rBGH poses an even greater 1990 study by Monsanto shows cians running for president” kept lion that FEC spokesman the ad.
risk to human health than ever that the company knew about the open the agency that disburses lan Stirton says will be dis- “It sounds like he’s
considered,” says Dr. Samuel Ep- adverse effects of Posilac, but paid “taxpayers’ money” to candidates. tributed this year during stretching things all over
stein, professor of Environmental little attention. Moreover, the “One candidate says no,” the the primaries, the conven- the place in his ad, which
Medicine at the University of Illi- group states, “The FDA has failed narrator continues. “He won't tions, and the general elec- people tend to do,” says
nois School of Public Health and to investigate” the long-term ef- take taxpayers’ money. Steve tion was collected entirely Larry Makinson, deputy di-
chairman of the Cancer Prevention fects of increased levels of IGF-I in Forbes.” from voluntary $3 check- rector of the Washington-
Coalition. “The FDA [US Food and milk. Enter the wealthy heir to the offs on income-tax forms. These based Center for Responsive Poli-
Drug Administration] and Monsan- Epstein concludes: “The entire ‘Forbes magazine empire, stage donations do not actually increase tics, a nonprofit, nonpartisan re-
to have a lot to answer for. Given nation is currently being subjected right. “I’m Steve Forbes. I think the amount of tax a person pays. search group. Makinson lamented
the cancer risks, and other health to a large-scale adulteration of an it’s wrong to spend taxpayers’ By law, Congress couldn’t use any the increasing use of personal
concerns, why is rBGH milk still age-old dietary staple by a poorly money on political campaigns. It’s of this money for budget-balanc- wealth in political campaigns,
on the market?” characterized and unlabeled time we changed Washington.” ing or other purposes, even if it which he says may have the effect
When the FDA approved the biotechnology product which is A few problems with all this: wanted to. of forcing people of modest
use of Posilac, in November 1993, very different from natural milk.” ® Dole and company did noth- ® By refusing to accept public means out of politics.
it agreed with Monsanto that the — Tim Sandler ing to keep the Federal Election funds, the free-spending Forbes “If you can write yourself a
hormone posed no discernible Commission (FEC), which ad- has been able to avoid require- check for $20 million,” Makinson
A
threat to human or animal health. ministers public campaign funds, ments capping the amount of says, “you can save yourself 80
It also sided with the company open during the federal-govern- money he may give to his own percent of the workload.”
when it ruled that milk producers ment shutdown. The FEC budget, campaign and limiting what he — Dan Kennedy
THE BOSTON PHOENIX @ SECTION ONE JANUARY 26, 1996
IT QUOT
Globe, has filed documents that maintain Globe report:
its reporting was accurate.) ® Young and his associates “asked at
The trial is scheduled to begin on May 6 least three New Hampshire businessmen to
in Rockingham Superior Court, in Exeter, invest $75,000 apiece,” with Young telling
New Hampshire, before Judge Kenneth the businessmen that he anticipated $16
McHugh. (The Globe will soon file a sum- million in loans from the World Bank. Yet
mary-judgment motion with McHugh, rais- Ghioto and Milne quoted World Bank
ing at least the possibility that the suit could spokesman Peter Riddleberger as saying the
be thrown out before trial.) Both Christo bank had rejected Young’s housing propos-
Foreign affair and Globe attorney Jonathan Albano, of the al, and that the bank would not approve the
Boston firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould, use of an intermediary such as Young in its
say a pre-trial settlement is unlikely. dealings with the Albanian government.
“I lost millions of dollars,” says Christo. © In a paragraph that suggested Korce
“And more importantly, I lost essentially was attempting to corner the market,
several years of my life.” Ghioto and Milne wrote, “Documents de-
Globe spokesman Rick Gulla’s terse re- scribing the deal to Albanian officials said
sponse: “We have no comment, because Young was working with several compa-
it’s a pending legal action.” Both Ghioto nies so they could ‘position themselves as
Libel suit against Globe alleges and Milne referred the Phoenix to Albano. the primary construction company’ for
housing in Albania.”
Devastating picture ® Christo, whose parents immigrated
tangle of sex, lies, and Albania Ghioto and Milne’s story, headlined from Albania, was quoted as telling the
QUESTIONS RAISED OVER BID TO WIN ALBA- Globe that he and Vars had been retained
NIA CONTRACTS, painted a devastating pic- as lawyers by the Albanian ministry of
ture of unethical business practices on the construction. “Christo said he had been
by Dan Kennedy than-satisfactory results for the plaintiffs. part of the plaintiffs. working without a fee,” Ghioto and Milne
In recent years, former Massachusetts The leading man in this story was wrote, “but a bill sent last summer to the
governor Ed King and 1982 gubernatorial Young, a onetime rising star in New government of Albania sought nearly
arring a last-minute set- candidate John Lakian both sued the Hampshire Republican circles who’s often $70,000 for Vars in connection with
tlement, the Boston Globe Globe after damaging stories about them described as something of a loose cannon. ‘drafting the Albania World Bank propos-
and two of its reporters were published. Both men lost. According to published reports, for exam- al.’” That section was followed by a state-
will likely go on trial this Now come Thomas Christo, a colorful ple, while serving as a Special Forces offi- ment from Riddleberger that Albanian of-
spring to answer allega- North Hampton, New Hampshire, lawyer cer during the Gulf War, he was charged ficials “don’t need lawyers to deal with us.
tions that they libeled five politically con- and former Republican candidate for the with lying to cover for two men who’d If they need legal work as part of our
nected New Hampshire business people US Senate, who was once the subject of made off with Army vehicles to catch up loans, we can provide lawyers for them.”
who were trying to develop housing in — flattering profiles in American Lawyer and with his unit. (The charges were eventually The clear implication: that Korce was
of all places — Albania. Business Week; David Young, a controver- dropped.) In 1993, his driver’s license was billing the impoverished Albanian govern-
According to the plaintiffs, as outlined sial former New Hampshire legislator; and suspended for one year after he was nailed ment for a $70,000 expense it needn’t
in their suit, the three-year-old case in- three lesser-known associates: attorney for repeated speeding offenses. Young have incurred.
volves a sordid tale of romantic intrigue, a Ellen Vars, hotel developer Timothy Finni- could not be reached for comment. The plaintiffs, in their 29-page com-
purloined document, even a whiff of for- gan, and businessman William Tsiros, also According to the Globe story, Young plaint, contend that the Globe got it almost
eign gun-running. a former Granite State legislator. The five and his associates, doing business as the entirely wrong. The motives, according to
Call it sex, lies, and newsprint. say an article by longtime Globe freelancer Korce Redevelopment Corporation (the the complaint, involve several of the seven
The Globe, in court documents, re- Gary Ghioto and staff writer John Milne, name is taken from a region in Albania), deadly sins — most prominently lust.
sponds that the article in question was published on the front page of the Globe’s were involved in an attempt “to become It seems that Young was involved in an
“true or substantially true,” and that in “an New Hampshire Weekly supplement on the sole agents in control of all housing intimate relationship with Andrea ‘Kontro-
effort to divert public scrutiny from their November 29, 1992, was “slanderous, construction contracts in Albania, a plan vitz, at the time a reporter for WGOT-TV
own conduct, plaintiffs have filed a false, defamatory, patently false and greatly that, had it worked, would put them in a (Channel 60), in Manchester, New Hamp-
scandalous and scurrilous complaint.” damaging to all of the plaintiffs.” powerful and lucrative position.” (Albania, shire. At the same time, the plaintiffs al-
As the largest news organization in New The plaintiffs are seeking $45 million emerging from years of isolation with vir- lege, “Ghioto had an amorous interest in
England, the Globe regularly attracts from the Globe and the Associated Press, tually no industry or resources to call its Andrea Kontrovitz,” and expressed his
protests from prominent people who think which, they charge, distributed the Globe's own, is facing an extreme housing crisis love for her numerous times during the
they've been wronged. Yet there have been story and produced its own libelous fol- and is dependent on foreign contractors summer and fall of 1992. When Kontro-
few high-profile libel suits filed against the low-up stories despite being warned by the and expertise.) vitz rebuffed Ghioto’s advances, the plain-
paper, and those have generally yielded less- plaintiffs of inaccuracies. (AP, like the Among the specifics contained in the tiffs charge, Ghioto told her that he in-
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