Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high up in his Surgeon General's report that nicotine is addictive. "They absolutely hated it," he gloats. He said the companies' claims that science cannot say with certainty that tobacco causes cancer were "flat-footed lies" and that sending cigarettes to the Third World was "the export of death, disease and disability...
...found in a Hollywood hotel room in March 1982, the victim of a drug overdose at age 33, John Belushi became the subject of an inevitable barrage of media scavenging. First came the newspaper stories, detailing the cocaine and heroin abuse that led to the Rabelaisian comic's early death. Then a book, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, written by Watergate chronicler Bob Woodward. The tell-all tome implicated several of Belushi's Hollywood friends and associates for condoning, or at least ignoring, his self-destructive behavior...
...Cathy Smith (Patti D'Arbanville), the woman who allegedly gave Belushi his fatal drug injection, most real-life characters are given pseudonyms, and none are shown indulging in drug use with Belushi. Only a couple of scenes offer hints that Hollywood might share any blame in Belushi's death. In one, Woodward asks a studio executive about the $2,500 a week reportedly paid to Belushi for drugs. In another, a Belushi assistant admits that he gave the star uppers before a recording session...
...sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence can be detected in dozens of films. He even notes that the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has acknowledged that the structure of his book The Death of Artemio Cruz was lifted from Citizen Kane. But Brady is prudent about using the word genius, an encomium more freely handed out at Academy Award gatherings than at Nobel Prize ceremonies...
...rare legal move against Jewish settlers, an Israeli court last week indicted one of their leaders, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 54, for manslaughter. The court charged that the Israeli shot an Arab shopkeeper to death and wounded another in the city of Hebron last fall, after Palestinians stoned his car. The indictment stunned Levinger's followers, who have asserted their right to protect themselves with guns...