Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Woods, who will give a solo performance of her own songs this Friday night at Paine Hall, has been a singer with the popular Boston-based rock band "Rick Berlin" since she was an undergraduate living in Claverly Hall...
Besides the apparent mental hazards, Woods says performing can be risky as a career because of the inherent uncertainty. In light of Rick Berlin's long-standing difficulties in acquiring a major-label recording contract, Woods says she would advise prospective musicians, "Get some training, and get a regular job. You don't want to do this. I would wish this on somebody I don't like...
That is what the FBI wants to determine. Two weeks ago, agents armed with search warrants showed up at the offices of Hazeltine, Parkin, Lackner and Berlin to pore through their papers. A search warrant directed them to look for "bank accounts of Berlin in which payments from Lackner may have been deposited in connection with his criminal activities pertaining to Government contracts...
Lackner denies any criminal activities and says, "I never paid him ((Berlin)) anything." But he does not seem to have convinced the FBI. The agents who searched his home and office, Lackner told TIME, grilled him extensively about supposed payments to Berlin and played for him several secretly taped recordings of his telephone conversations. One call was placed by Lackner to Berlin from Parkin's house. Lackner insists he was only trying to arrange to have a cup of coffee with Berlin. Nonetheless, Berlin has been reassigned, and the uproar has held up the award of the IFF contract. Parkin...
...Soviet authorities, accusing Askoldov of "promoting Zionism and . . . imperialist chauvinism," shelved Commissar, and Askoldov has never made another picture. Only last year, as glasnost was opening the door of artistic freedom, was the director able to free his kidnaped film. Commissar won a Silver Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival, though the Soviet press neglected to mention it. A true movie hero, Askoldov is bold enough to fight for small victories and to hope for a final vindication: that even the Soviet public may soon be able to see a film whose very survival does them proud...