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That about sums up Furrow. Acquaintances recall the son of a career Air Force enlisted man as a bookish, nerdy, chubby kid with few friends and a first name that drew plenty of scorn. "He would not be called Buford," says neighbor and classmate Merrill, who says Furrow preferred the name Neal. At Timberline High School in Lacey, Wash., she adds, "he was kind of like a shadow. He didn't make an impression." Still, by Merrill's account, Furrow was curious and bright enough to go on to community college after an aborted stint in the Army...
Critics say BTM sometimes sensationalizes. Jason Goodman, who produced the Madonna and Cher episodes, says he had to fight for the relatively low-key Heart show: "They aren't as interested in artists who haven't made tabloid headlines." Before his show aired, Lenny Kravitz was at a loss to guess the angle: "I hadn't killed anyone, and I wasn't broke or on heroin, so I wondered what they'd focus on." The show detailed his divorce from actress Lisa Bonet and the death of his mother. Still, Kravitz, like most BTM subjects, was pleased. Says Rosenthal: "Everyone...
...destroying phones. There's a guy serving a year in jail in England for refusing to shut up, shut up, SHUT UP for just a few minutes please...during a flight from Madrid to Manchester. Authorities there claimed his mobile's emissions constituted a safety hazard, interfering with air-tower-to-pilot communications. But we know better, don't we? They threw him in the slammer for sweet revenge...
...week after Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recommended Vrooman be punished for botching the spying case against fired-but-never-charged Wen Ho Lee, Vrooman got on the phone with the Washington Post. He suggested ? nay, insisted ? that not only was the espionage case against Lee "built on thin air," but that the Taiwan-born scientist also had been scapegoated because of his race. Vrooman won?t get into the nitty-gritty of the case ? top secret, and all that ? but he didn?t mind saying that Lee?s ethnicity was "a major factor." Vrooman claimed to have counted 13 white...
America vs. Cuba: Families of those shot down by Castro's air force in 1996 were awarded $188 million in damages