Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the Oscars' Irving Thalberg Lifetime Achievement Award. Snag some headline entertainer like Jay Leno sufficient to attract network coverage, and air the same hagiographic film that would otherwise be shown at the convention. Better that the candidate end his career in prime time, droning on about his second-grade teacher, than at sparsely attended airport rallies, shouting epithets into the wind...
...Parker, and most of the readers of Seventeen thinking she'd be a nice President. Who better for Annie Leibovitz and the folks at Vanity Fair to turn into Glinda the good witch? It's not even her first time in the role. "When I was in the first grade I wanted to be Dorothy, but my teacher cast me as Glinda," says O'Donnell. "I was devastated." She doesn't look thrilled this time either. Smile, Rosie. At least you're not in Kansas...
...Commonwealth of Virginia did. It decided on Joseph Patrick Payne, a soft-spoken, 40-year-old eighth-grade dropout who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 7. Yet Payne, while hardly a model citizen, may be innocent of this murder: his attorney has a stack of affidavits maintaining that the crime was committed by the man who became the state's star witness against Payne, as well as a signed document in which that witness confesses to framing him. Why, then, is Joe Payne still facing execution? "That's got me baffled," he admits...
...born romantic, Edmonds used to conduct imaginary relationships in grade school with pretty girls who wouldn't talk to him. Today he's married and the father of a 10-week-old son, and he is starting to focus on topics beyond infatuation. He addresses domestic abuse on the new album's How Come, How Long, a duet with Stevie Wonder. Says Edmonds: "I never thought I had a voice that could command respect on other issues." Could it be? The man they call Babyface is outgrowing his nickname...
...Bromobenzene decided to call it quits, citing concern about his grade should his identity be discovered...