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...DEPORTED. PAUL FRANCIS GADD, a.k.a. GARY GLITTER, 58, 1970s British glam rocker, after his December detention on unspecified charges; from Phnom Penh. In 1999, Glitter was convicted in Britain of downloading child pornography. Last summer, the Cambodian authorities asked Glitter to leave the country after he was found living with a young girl...
...Maher tells it like it is. Applying for Associate Editor last year, she wrote, “I’m a bitch.” She’s brought glam to FM’s scandalous party pics as the As It Were editor, and she managed to make Listings a page some people, sometimes, were compelled to read. As chair of FM, Liz will find her perfect niche. She’ll still encourage the designers while sporting her BCBG, but somewhere in the newsroom she’ll nestle down next to a writer and mold...
...playing a "pretty" enough game, for being all hustle and no skill?the usual American stereotype. It's a silly comment, given the quality of the U.S. goals and the performance of European teams. Italy's dull, defensive posture isn't exactly Renaissance football. Portugal and France, the glam teams, self-destructed. And England hasn't exactly been poetry out there for what, three decades...
Cambodians can be forgiven for failing to recognize a glam-rock star among them. When Gary Glitter ruled pop charts in the 1970s as the preening king of sequins, body paint and guitar riffs, Phnom Penh was in the midst of a genocidal civil war. Even if they had heard of Glitter, they probably wouldn't have associated him with the aging baldy who rented a luxury apartment in Phnom Penh six months ago. Journalists didn't spot him either, although Glitter had dinner at the riverside Foreign Correspondents Club almost every night for three weeks. Without his bouffant wigs...
...about Cornel or the plight of Af-Am at Harvard are reserved for a more earnest forum. No, when talking about race-based issues in the twenty-first century, I can’t help but rant about something a bit less important, a bit more…well, glam...