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...DIED. ARTIE SHAW, 94, suave, inventive clarinetist and bandleader in the '30s and '40s whose hit recording of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine and subsequent work helped define the Big Band era; in Lakeville, Connecticut. In between frequent retirements, the "King of Swing" recorded such hits as Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, Moonglow and Dancing in the Dark with his eponymous big band and the Grammercy Five. A brainy and sometimes irascible perfectionist who was married eight times (including to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), Shaw had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...
DIED. ARTIE SHAW, 94, suave, inventive clarinetist and bandleader of the '30s and '40s whose hit recording of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine and subsequent work helped define the Big Band era; in Newbury Park, Calif. Though not as popular as his rival, Big Band giant Benny Goodman, Shaw was more adventurous, rejecting formulas to experiment with instrumentation and arrangements. Between frequent retirements, he recorded with his eponymous Big Band, the Gramercy Five and other groups, producing such hits as Frenesi, Star Dust and Summit Ridge Drive. A sometimes irascible perfectionist who had eight wives (including Lana Turner...
...without alienating the majority Shi'ites. "He has a lot of strengths--a tribal background, a modern attitude, youth," says Iyad al-Samarrai, secretary-general of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni political group. "He will be an important political figure in Iraq for a long time." Juan Cole, an Iraq expert at the University of Michigan, says, "He's the great white hope of the Sunnis...
...Yawer isn't sitting still. In the fall, he married his second wife, Nasrin Barwari, a Kurdish minister of public works in the interim government. Cole says Barwari gives al-Yawer nationwide appeal unmatched by any other politician. Al-Yawer, who has four children from another marriage, maintains that the union had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with romance. Asked how he managed to find time for that in his busy schedule, he says, "If you're not capable of love, how can you love your country?" Sounds like a pretty good campaign slogan...
...open nationwide, in February. Says co-star Archer: "This is a movie for the people who put Bush back into office." Mantegna's mom Mary Ann told Shallcross she was delighted for a different reason: "I enjoy any movie where my son doesn't get whacked." --By Wendy Cole...