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...seems to have no real connection to her fans—any listener who genuinely dresses and acts like that would most likely not appreciate lyrics like “I’m not the milk and Cheerios in your spoon.” What makes her fame so absurd, though, is that she absolutely cannot sing. My dog could cut an album and sound just about as talented...
BOSTON—Among the most humorous moments of A.J. Mleczko’s induction into the New England Women’s Sports Hall of Fame was a result of the ironic choice of the evening’s honorary chair, Digit Murphy, coach of Harvard’s archrival Brown...
...stranger to honors—with two Olympic medals, a national championship, a wedding ring and a USA Hockey bobblehead doll already to her name. Yet her induction into the New England Women’s Sports Hall of Fame Tuesday night was a unique achievement in its own right...
DIED. JOHNNY UNITAS, 69, Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts to a sudden-death victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL championship game, still regarded by many as the greatest football game ever played; of a heart attack; in suburban Baltimore. Unitas broke passing records at the University of Louisville but was deemed too small by his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, who cut him in 1955. The Colts found him playing for $6 a game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing...
DIED. CLIFF GORMAN, 65, explosive television, screen and stage actor who won a Tony for his bitterly funny portrayal of the stand-up comic Lenny Bruce in Broadway's Lenny (1971); of leukemia; in New York City. He first gained fame for his flamboyantly gay performance in the 1968 play The Boys in the Band...