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...everything from Australia is as cute as koala bears or Mel Gibson. With their debut album, 12 Days to Paris, Melbourne's grungy-looking and grungy-sounding Huxton Creepers offer proof, by reviving that wonderful 60s genre of Ugly Rock...
...Gibson first burst onto the global consciousness--and the pages of fan magazines--with a pair of post-apocalyptic films about a man who just couldn't take it anymore. That man, of course...
...that time, the hero from Down Under has been busy redefining the meaning of the word "cool" in such films as The Year of Living Dangerously, Mrs. Soffel, Gallipoli, and Mutiny on the Bounty. Last week, as part of a massive promotional campaign for his new film Lethal Weapon, Gibson talked to a group of unheroic media folks in a New York hotel room...
...traditionally one of the cleanest in the country. But a blot has formed on the pristine Green Mountain State record, in, of all places, its supreme court. Last month Vermont's judicial-conduct board accused three of five high-court justices -- Thomas Hayes, 60, William Hill, 69, and Ernest Gibson III, 59 -- of numerous violations of judicial ethics growing out of their allegedly improper efforts to help a lower-court colleague under investigation. Charges against a majority of a supreme court are hardly everyday occurrences, and the move has given taciturn Vermonters quite a bit to talk about...
Protesting their innocence, Hayes, Hill and Gibson have so far resisted pressure from Governor Madeleine Kunin, who three weeks ago urged them to step down. They have, however, disqualified themselves from many of the cases before the court this month. Retired and lower-court judges have been called on to fill out the high bench in these cases, thus somewhat disrupting courts throughout the state. Resolution of the charges against the three could take months, and will wind up in the supreme court. Then the two untainted justices will also have to step aside, leaving it to five non-supreme...