Word: bonham
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DIED. John ("Bonzo") Bonham, 32, drummer for the British rock group Led Zeppelin; of still undetermined causes; in Windsor, England. A retiring type offstage, living on a Worcestershire farm with his wife, son and daughter, Bonham had an exuberant style on the drums described by Rolling Stone magazine as "the aural equivalent of watching Clint Eastwood club eight bad guys over the head with a two-by-four while driving a derailed locomotive through their hideout...
...Estes both nearing their 65th birthdays and required to retire in December and January, the firm's two top jobs would be opening up for the first time in six years. The giant automaker last week cut short the executive-suite guessing game. It announced that Roger Bonham Smith, 55, will replace Murphy as chairman of the board and chief executive officer; Francis James McDonald, 58, will succeed Estes as the company's operating boss. The two men were long regarded as the leading candidates...
Honeysuckle Rose takes its cue from the plangent homilies of country music. Buck Bonham (Nelson) is a moderately successful singer with a strong, loving wife (Dyan Cannon), an adoring son (Joey Floyd) and-shift to a minor key here-an ambitious girl guitarist (Amy Irving) who snakes her way into Buck's band and bed. Once she and Buck become lovers, the dramatic tension slackens. Seven decades of movie romance have prepared the audience for a climactic reconciliation of Buck and his wife. And since Amy Irving acts as if she bought her clothes and her accent at Bloomingdale...