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...outsize personality and mercurial but galvanic enthusiasms. Over the years Papp, 66, has brought live drama to prime-time network TV, invaded Broadway with musicals (A Chorus Line, Pirates of Penzance, Drood), introduced new playwrights and plays from David Rabe (Streamers, about Viet Nam) to Keith Reddin (Rum and Coke, about the Bay of Pigs invasion) and provided stage-acting challenges for Hollywood stars including Robert De Niro and William Hurt...
Washington's drug war received a stunning setback two weeks ago when Colombian Billionaire Jorge Ochoa Vasquez, 38, a reputed drug baron, strolled out of Bogota's La Picota prison armed with a writ for his release signed by a Colombian judge. Ochoa's ruthlessness is legendary; after the coke magnate was arrested in 1984 in Spain at the DEA'S request, threats made against the lives of Americans residing in Bogota became so widespread that U.S. embassy children were evacuated. Extradited to Colombia in 1986 on a bull-smuggling charge, Ochoa was improperly released in August and eluded authorities...
...declares, "Nothing here looks like food," and orders a cheeseburger. "On occasion, I've been over 300 lbs.," he confesses, though he is happiest when he is carrying 270 lbs. on his 6-ft. 4- in. frame. Madden is more likely to wash down his cheeseburgers with Diet Coke than with Lite beer, but he is as faithful as a near teetotaler can be to the product that has forged his fame. When passersby shout out, "Tastes great!" he dutifully responds, "Less filling!" Miller Lite commercials have become a kind of folk...
...that since he was driving such an old car, they assumed he was a "nigger." A few weeks later as he was driving the same Chevy with Mississippi license plates north to Harvard Law School, a group of college-age kids passed him on a Connecticut highway, threw a Coke bottle at his car, and yelled, "Go back to Mississippi, you damn redneck...
...problem with America today in the modern age is that the era has gone on too long. When we start calling Buddy Holly songs hits and drink Classic Coke, we know it's time for a new way of thinking...