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...help identify Bakley's enemies and perhaps pinpoint a suspect from the countless scams she worked, including trying to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars in bad checks, claiming affairs with celebs and perpetrating a lonely hearts con game. An excerpt from one of her "Dear single guy" notes: "Honey, please hurry and send me at least $75 or even a plane ticket...If you can't afford this please send me a Christmas gift and a $10 or $20 bill to help me out. I'll send you some nude shots of me, of course..." It was a form...
DIED. PERRY COMO, 87, honey-smoke baritone whose casually masculine, almost sleepy stylings rivaled Bing Crosby's and Frank Sinatra's at the top of pop charts in the 1940s and '50s; in Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony, Fla. The seventh son of a seventh son, Pierino Ronald Como left work as a barber in 1933 for a career of such easy-listening hits as Till the End of Time and It's Impossible. He was also host of a string of popular TV shows. He died six days short of his 88th birthday...
...make sure they were included in the magic that was about to take place inside the hall. Magic it was. Five women and a sign language interpreter came dancing onto the stage, decked out in bright colours and African dress, and immediately the audience was spellbound by Sweet Honey in the Rock. The sight of the black female a cappella singers dancing beneath the statues of the dead naked white men from long ago that decorate the hall highlighted the power and immediacy of Sweet Honey. When Ysaye Barnwell used her effortless, supernatural vocal range to begin...
...Sweet Honey has been going strong for over 25 years, which is enough to turn any other group of musicians into corporate monstrosities or tired has-beens trying to recapture their golden years. Not so Sweet Honey. The group has revitalised itself with many new members over the years, bringing the participation in the group to a total of 22 women, including two of the founding members. Their repertoire continues to expand, encompassing rap, blues and African spiritual songs, as well as their original gospel roots. As an African living in the United States, Sweet Honey is the first group...
...Sweet Honey are an incredible group. In addition to being phenomenal singers, composers and arrangers, having contributed music to films, scored ballets and acted on stage and TV, many of the members hold doctorate degrees. Berenice Johnson Reagon, the founder, is Distinguished Professor of History at the American University, and Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, which gave her words an extra weight when she spoke of the example set by leaders “who feel that you lose something when you say ‘I’m sorry’ instead...