Word: guests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking with a Jamaican accent, Colin Ferguson said he was from Louisiana and needed a room. The India-born general manager of the Royal Motel in Long Beach, California, looked at his would-be guest, a bulky black man who admitted to being unemployed, and said, "O.K., but if you're not good I won't let you stay here." "But," Nick Bhakta recalls, "he was good. Every day he did not stay in the room. He came only in the nighttime." Bhakta charged $35 a night; Ferguson stayed three weeks. In retrospect, all he really needed was 15 days...
...feeling that if the Harvard Police Department had its own version of the Academy Awards, you couldn't get a more distinguished guest list than turned up earlier this month for a petty larceny trial in downtown Cambridge...
...coalition meeting's 18-person guest list included a host of campus leaders, including the presidents of the Black Students Association (BSA) and the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), a co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), and the former chairs of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club...
Tommy Lee Jones is the guest of honor at a special advance screening of Oliver Stone's Vietnam docudrama "Heaven and Earth" in which he co-stars. Proceeds are to benefit the HFA and the Print Acquisition Fund. Asked to describe how it feels to be returning as a famous alumnus, Jones simply asks, "How far away from the tree can the apple fall...
...destiny is far kinder in director Christopher Guest's post-feminist ; interpretation of this troubled suburban Mrs. The result is a movie that really means to be funny. The new Attack spoofs '90s notions of male insecurity and female empowerment. The plot follows the old line: Nancy (Daryl Hannah) is married to a bonehead (Daniel Baldwin), who prefers cavorting in motels with beauticians named Honey to sipping Chardonnay at home with his wife. For years he has chipped away at Nancy's self-esteem. She's 5 ft. 10 in., but inside she feels about the size of a Barbie...