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...Steingrimur Hermannsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland, first fell for Edda aboard an Icelandair flight...
Elfin singers from Iceland are not high on the Committee to Protect Journalists' hit list. This may change, however, since BJORK let fly at a reporter at Bangkok airport, throwing her to the ground and banging her head on the floor. "All I said was, 'Welcome to Thailand,' and she just hit me, lost control and went crazy," cable reporter JULIE KAUFMAN told Reuters. The Grammy nominee telephoned Kaufman the next day to say she was sorry, explaining that she was concerned about her son Sindri, and apologized publicly in a statement. Kaufman won't press charges. No word...
...something called "Belgian envelope paper." She is a delightfully luminous presence. Maybe it's her accent. Her voice has a musical lilt, and her statements often end with an upward lift, as if she were asking a question. Then again, maybe her otherworldliness has something to do with Iceland. Her ex-husband is named Thor (her current boyfriend, a British songwriter and performer, is named Tricky). She says Icelanders, partly because they live in a spacious, underpopulated country, are more attuned to nature and spirituality. She also admits, however, that "Icelandic people think I'm strange...
Bjork--her last name is Gudmundsdottir, but she rarely uses it--was born in Reykjavik in 1965. Her mother is a student of homeopathy and a teacher of the Japanese martial art aikido, her father is the head of Iceland's electricians' union. Bjork began making records in the '70s, before she entered her teens. In the late '80s she began to get international attention as the lead singer for the arty Icelandic rock band the Sugarcubes (Thor was the guitarist). In 1993 she left the band and released her first major-label solo album, Debut, a somewhat haphazard collection...
...tank at a Mexico City amusement park, and he suffered from a herpes-like skin condition. After an outpouring of letters, his Mexican owners are donating him to a more spacious aquarium in Oregon, where he will be readied for a life of freedom in the waters off Iceland...