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ACTOR BRANDON LEE HAD HOPED TO RIDE THE CROW, his third significant Hollywood film, to stardom. Instead it was a bird of ill omen. A storm destroyed sets; a carpenter was nearly electrocuted. Then during Wednesday's filming, a gun that should have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I don't know how it got in ((the gun))," said The Crow's executive producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal. bullet...
PRESS: Making the NBC Peacock Eat Crow...
...Justice's skillfully rendered tales were seldom sweet. He liked to tell his law clerks about the time he confronted a "moderate" white-supremacist politician in the Jim Crow South with the fact that contrary to the segregationist promise of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites, the whites in the state had a school for nursing while the blacks had none. The politician told Marshall that he could get the state to build a school for blacks, but that Marshall had to allow the politician to use his own methods. Marshall agreed, whereupon the politician immediately called...
Harvard will be eating crow instead...
Before that was Dambuilders, a nearly hard-core group whose feedback-stuffed guitarwork was topped by nothing less than an electric violin. Their thick sound got the crowd stomping after the opening act, Crow, good-naturedly meandered through a couple bad songs, looking as though they were hearing them for the first time...