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...Chuck Barris has avoided most of them. His 1984 book Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was subtitled An Unauthorized Autobiography, and it claimed that while he was creating game shows like The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game and hosting The Gong Show, he was a contract CIA assassin--a claim he still refuses to say was untrue. The movie version, directed by George Clooney and written by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), which opens nationwide on Jan. 24, has tales the book never even imagined. "He wrote stuff out of nowhere," Barris says. "My mother never dressed...
...Prejudice still exists through Mississippi, however, particularly in rural areas. But even there tolerance has taken root. During the Clinton years, it was rural juries of both races that convicted Byron De La Beckwith, the white assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Another multiracial jury recently convicted the white church arsonists that had terrorized the state.) Earlier this year, Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar, announced that she was donating her husband's NAACP papers, personal correspondence and assorted memorabilia to the State Archive in Mississippi. "That's where his paper's belong," she said. "He would be pleased...
...have been acting as his first lady for his campaign,” Katz says. “He also had some body guards and an assassin...
...water, her teeth are chattering. The locals say April was never this frigid, this windy--"Nunca," they insist, never--until the week she had to pretend the icy Atlantic was the bath-warm Gulf of Mexico and shoot Scene 102, her big entrance as Jinx, the mysterious assassin in the new Bond film Die Another...
...East, was shot dead on a busy street in Moscow. Valentin Tsvetkov, 54, who was also a Russian Deputy, was gunned down during the morning rush hour, in front of dozens of witnesses, including his wife. Police suspected a contract killing and said they had a description of the assassin. President Vladimir Putin ordered his Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov to investigate. Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a crowded McDonald's in Moscow, injuring seven people. MIDDLE EAST Hot Water Israel protested when Lebanon inaugurated a project to pump water from a river...