Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DARRYL STRAWBERRY was bounced from baseball last week after flunking drug tests (again) and also had a sorry day in court. After pleading guilty to evading income tax on $350,000 earned from autograph signings and such, Strawberry was told to report next month for his sentence-perhaps three months in jail and a fine of up to $250,000. Strawberry told the New York Post he had been so depressed that he "thought about" suicide but changed his mind because he has "a lot of hope...
...Simpson's image as the world's most genial jock, it will still be hard to make jurors put aside the old impressions of him. Unless they can imagine O.J. in a murderous rage, it won't matter even if the state offers them DNA blood tests with his autograph on every drop...
...help you?" Typically the first response is a double take as customers grasp that it's really her -- the notorious Hollywood Madam -- there among the boxer shorts and athletic gear at the Heidi Wear shop in Pasadena, California. The second response is to ask Fleiss to autograph their purchases, then to cluck sympathetically about her recent conviction on three counts of pandering and denounce her mandatory sentence of three years as a waste of taxpayer money. Fleiss has heard it all. But last week it was her turn to do a double take when a uniformed policewoman entered the shop...
...their enormous wages, they then have the gall to charge kids $15 for an autograph...
Carter was feted at some of the most fashionable spots in New York City. Restaurant patrons, overhearing his claim to fame, would come up and ask for his autograph. Photo editors at the major magazines wanted to meet the new hotshot, dressed in his black jeans and T shirts, with the tribal bracelets and diamond-stud earring, with the war-weary eyes and tales from the front lines of Nelson Mandela's new South Africa. Carter signed with Sygma, a prestigious picture agency representing 200 of the world's best photojournalists. "It can be a very glamorous business," says Sygma...