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...prepare corpses for air travel, per Kurt L. Chauviere ’04: “You strap them in a box, embalm them, put in a couple of pillows—it’s just like putting someone to bed.” (“I Paint Dead People,” October...
Durst now sits in a Texas jail. Galveston district attorney Kurt Sistrunk told TIME he plans to pursue a charge of bail jumping against Durst, for which he could receive a prison term of up to 10 years. And Durst could soon be back in court to face a wrongful-death civil suit brought by Black's sister Gladys Saslaw, which would require a lighter burden of proof than the one he faced for Black's murder. For that, he may have to mount another extraordinary performance. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
Capitalizing on a fellow artist’s death has been, alongside shooting smack and selling out to the Man, one of the most popular hobbies of musicians in the past decade. Courtney Love got the ball rolling in 1994; after ex-husband Kurt Cobain, in the words of our Fearless Leader, suicided himself, Love successfully mourned her way to unjustified record deals, piles of prescription drugs and “lots and lots and lots of money” after agreeing to release a Nirvana greatest hits collection...
...final rationalization to be offered for Elliott’s constant barrage of Aaliyah imagery and shout-outs is to recognize any social injustice that may have led to the loss. But the circumstances of Aaliyah’s death, unlike those of Biggie or Kurt Cobain, can hardly be regarded as a teachable moment. The singer was aboard a Cessna passenger plane in the course of a Bahamas music video shoot, when the plane crashed into the ocean, killing all of its passengers. No grand social force appears to have contributed to the death of Aaliyah, and the only...
...Lady of the Forest never goes quite as deeply into spiritual revelation or narrative resolution as readers might want. But it gives us an unflinching picture of Hawthorne's descendants in the wake of Kurt Cobain. More than that, it shows Guterson to be a serious and searching craftsman, very much in the American grain and determined to take himself further, into questions of possession (and of dispossession). Sometimes it feels as if all the neglected voices of the Pacific Northwest--self-righteous slackers, trailer-park priests, the sexually abused--are pouring through him in this book. What we choose...