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None of this might have happened had Barnett not convinced a headstrong and homesick theater major that he should give his college one more try. Like Tony Randall, Warren Beatty, Ann-Margret and Charlton Heston before him at Northwestern, Darnell Autry is an actor. Unlike them, he can explode through the line, break tackles and outrace defenders. He rushed for at least 100 yds. in every one of Northwestern's games this year, and had he not been a mere sophomore, he might have got more consideration for the Heisman Trophy...
...become. For the most part Republicans were in favor of the crime bill -- including Subtitle F, called Midnight Sports. That was before they realized that they could recapture the law-and-order issue for themselves by stalling the bill. Suddenly the G.O.P. and conservative think tanks -- even Charlton Heston, speaking for the National Rifle Association -- were all over it. Instead of putting 100,000 police officers on the street, they said, the crime bill would fund only 20,000; it would create more social workers than cops; it would also release 10,000 drug dealers...
ASPEN: SAFE UNLESS YOU'RE STUPID (PBS): Documentary on the safety and beauty of the Aspen area. Narrated by Charlton Heston, with major funding by the Tourist Board of Aspen...
WHEN THE SONG COP KILLER, BY RAPPER ICE-T'S group Body Count, brought the wrath of police -- not to mention Charlton Heston and Oliver North -- down on Warner Bros. Records and its parent company, Time Warner, the entertainment giant defended its artist's right to free expression. But it began taking a harder look at its albums, rejecting, for example, the work of the rapper Paris...
...managed to enrage a lot of people, from small-town police officers to congressional leaders to a former National Security Council aide named Oliver North. It put actor Charlton Heston in a prominent new role as the Tipper Gore of Beverly Hills. The stormy controversy revolved around rap star Ice-T's Cop Killer, a song that, many argue, condones murder and fuels hatred of police officers. Last week the L.A. rapper, who made a foray into heavy metal on his latest album, Body Count, moved to withdraw Cop Killer from that record...