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...Rules, in which he urges his fans to "get beyond materialism." Of his music, he writes, "I know I need to be careful when it comes to violence and negativity. I realize that what I do transcends music and rap." A wise rap from the genre's elder statesman...
...husband died--a rumor they denied repeatedly. Dillon's father, for one, always wondered about the autopsy report and never believed the death was an accident. Says Bonnie Mead, who was Martin Dillon's secretary: "We don't know why people put blinders on in this town." Nevertheless, the elder Dillon kept his peace until his grandchildren were older. In 1989 he hired a private investigator to review the evidence and by 1995 had got the authorities to exhume his son's body for another autopsy...
...also uses old film footage to fine effect--for example, juxtaposing a scene of a very stoned Neil Young & Crazy Horse circa '76 (bearing an eerie resemblance to the guys from This is Spinal Tap) burning flowers in a Parisian hotel room with clips of the band today as elder statesmen of rock: men with a past that resonates in their music...
Tran Khuong Dan, a construction foreman from Hanoi, was shocked when, in 1975, he finally saw his elder brother in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) after a 21-year separation prolonged by the Vietnam War. Gaunt and pale, the brother displayed symptoms that were all too familiar to Dan. The brother, like their father, was addicted to opium. "All around me," says Dan, "there were drug addicts." The habit eventually led to his father's death in 1976 and his brother's the following year...
...domineering Mohammed al Fayed was, says Dodi's friend,"someone who tells you whom you can hang out with, what you can do and not do." Even if the elder Fayed had ordered his son to squire the princess around, the younger Fayed saw the rebel royal as a way out from under his father's thumb. "Dodi," says his friend, "started finding his legs." And on that Saturday night, it seemed as if an engagement was almost certain, even though, as the French police now say, the fabled Repossi diamond ring was never found...