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This account is disputed by Adjua Abi Naantaanbuu, a Memphis barber who acknowledges cooking dinner for Abernathy, King and his assistant, Bernard Lee, on the evening in question. She contends that Abernathy, having fallen unconscious while drinking, occupied her bedroom until about 3:45 a.m., when she and King put an ice pack on his neck to wake him. Said she: "If there was any sex going down in my bedroom, it was by Abernathy himself." The former Kentucky lawmaker, Georgia Powers of Louisville, was at the Lorraine Motel that night but declined to comment...
Like most people, I'm a little insecure when it comes to haircuts. Back in my Home Town, it's easy. There's only one final destination for all the unwanted curls and locks in the neighborhood--the Home Town barber shop. "We know hair like Trump knows money," reads the sign on the awning...
...Same as always?" the barber will ask, same as always...
...continues, "Derek Bok goes to La Flamme, and Dukakis goes to Custom Barber Shop. So either way you can't lose." I envision chatting with Derek and Mike as we sit in our stools, being sheared like a trio of sheep...
...first time around, Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a deranged barber who slits customers' throats and a pragmatic landlady who bakes the victims into meat pies, was a Victorian penny dreadful by way of Brecht. Everything imitated him: Hugh Wheeler's book, Stephen Sondheim's score, Harold Prince's staging and even the set, which resembled an iron foundry; it hissed and clanged of the dehumanization of the Industrial Revolution. Audiences in 1979 flinched at the spewing blood and spoken bile: it seemed there had never been so cynical a musical...