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...When asked whether he would be handed over to the police, the crowd replied loudly that he would not. "We don't trust the police," shouted one man. "We're going to make him into grilled meat," said another. A third man simply lifted his head and ran his finger across his throat. Though several hundred soldiers and policemen were deployed on a road barely 100 yards away, they said they had no orders to intervene. Tahan was stabbed to death at about...
...televised death of Youk, a vintage-car restorer from Waterford Township, Mich., set off a round of finger pointing over the motives behind the performance. Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca, who filed the murder charges last Wednesday, accused Kevorkian of airing the video to satisfy his "attention-starved ego." CBS, meanwhile, faced accusations of exploiting the death for ratings. The segment did help boost the show's numbers--the household rating was up 20% over the season average--during the critical fall sweeps period, which sets local advertising rates. Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes' executive producer, insisted his show wasn...
AILING. MICHAEL J. FOX, 37, film and TV actor; of Parkinson's disease. Fox, who stars in ABC's Spin City, disclosed to PEOPLE that the disease was diagnosed in 1991 after he noticed a twitch in his finger during the filming of Doc Hollywood. Fox underwent brain surgery last March for the illness--a progressive degeneration of the central nervous system with no known cure. "I think I can help people by talking," he said...
...with your cookies. My blocking group would attest that I am a nice enough guy, but taking a walnut crescent is a serious offense. Sure, the chocolate ones were for them (it must be a genetic defect, I know, but not everyone likes the dark stuff), but a misplaced finger on a raspberry square would be grounds for a hearing with the Ad Board in my book. And not a meeting over lunch either...
Strolling down Mass Ave. the other day, I heard a man behind me whistling something familiar. I couldn't quite put my finger on it--that is, until the man finished the meandering intro and hit the main theme at full volume. It came flooding back--more than 20 years of Star Wars history (all of cinematic history!) in a few power-packed notes...