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Last week, just a day after Shakur's arrest, Flavor Flav, 34, court jester of the otherwise unsmiling rap group Public Enemy, was arrested for attempted murder. On Tuesday morning Flav, whose real name is William Drayton, accused a neighbor, Thelouizs English, of fooling with his girlfriend. After Drayton pulled a gun, English fled to the lobby, where Drayton allegedly caught up with him, took a shot and missed. Released on $15,000 bail, Drayton, who once served 20 days in jail for punching his girlfriend, checked into the Betty Ford Center. His record company says he is seeking treatment...
PRODUCTION: Laura Conboy, Melissa Gart, Maureen Kelly, Robyn Mathews, Peter Mitchel (Managers); Martin Barbieri, Jean Brown, Lisa Caplan, Chris Caratzas, Jackie Daniels, Khadija Drayton, Andrew Dyer, Joe Eugenio, Elena Falaro, Sherry Gamlin, Jill Gerlin, Wil Gipp, Mark Glatzhofer, Patrick Hickey, Tracy Kelliher, Angie Licausi, Pam Perry, Eve Rabinovits, Terry Skrapits, Patty Stevens, Diamond Vertsonis, Juanita Weems
...family in Roosevelt, N.Y. He started getting deep into music while dejaying at Adelphi University, where he also drew a comic strip for the campus paper and casually considered a career like his father's, as a graphic designer. He met producer Hank Shocklee and Flavor Flav (then William Drayton) at the campus radio station, and graphics soon got subsumed into graphic language and a grandiose beat...
...course toward Scotland and the North Atlantic Circle route, which would take it to New York in about 7 1/2 hours and then on to Detroit. Both takeoff and early flight were normal, and within 35 minutes the aircraft was routinely transferred from London air-traffic control at West Drayton to Scotland's air- traffic control at Prestwick, southwest of Glasgow. Inside the plane, passengers were busily settling in for the long flight -- chatting with friends, fiddling with pillows, reading magazines -- while the attendants began preparations to serve dinner...
...Drayton said he would perform historical research at Oxford as though he were pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy, but will probably end his Oxford studies midway through the program, and return to Yale to finish the Ph.D...