Word: adler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loves the stage. For her, the bus-and-truck is a succession of opening nights. The most fun she ever had in theater, she says, was one night in Davenport, Iowa, where we have just arrived, when she was on an earlier tour. The bus made it to the Adler theater, but the truck didn't. The cast had to improvise with furniture from the Blackhawk hotel down the street; for the sound of a telephone ringing, they used a cowbell...
...cast's schedule constitutes idle luxury compared with life on the crew bus. At 7 on a Thursday morning, 31 hours out of Davenport's Adler theater and six hours out of the Coronado in Rockford, Ill., the crew bus sits at curbside in Peoria, a black bomb emitting oily blue smoke. The bus shudders intermittently as crew members wake and drop down out of their bunks. It shudders three times for Joe Burns, prop master: when he sits up and bangs his forehead on the bottom of the overhead bunk, when he flops back again on his pillow...
...Escobar and his confederates have smuggled into the U.S. at least 58 tons of cocaine from facilities like Tranquilandia, a massive complex of coke-processing laboratories in the Amazon jungle that Colombian authorities busted in 1984. The Medellin drug barons were also indicted for plotting the murder of Adler ("Barry") Seal, a drug ( smuggler turned informant who was gunned down last February in Baton Rouge, La. Seal was to have been the Government's star witness in the trial of the cocaine kingpins...
...Adler is particularly critical of the extra difficulty "public figures" have in winning libel suits. This inspired her critics to shish Adler with her own kebob stick. Why? Well, before either the Westmoreland or Sharon trial began, Adler filed a libel suit against the Washington Journalism Review...
...case was dismissed in September, but Adler would have had an easier libel standard to meet had she not been categorized by the court as: a public figure. It's quite surprising, isn't it, that the furious press critic who wrote Reckless Disregard did not think to include a disclaimer about her own involvement in libel proceedings...