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...couple of R.-and-B.-chart hits in the early '50s, cut some fierce sides in the late '50s and early '60s (collected here in all their home-fried glory), then passed on from the accumulated effects of road life and drink before his legend started to take hold and his music was widely heard...
Missing were the bodies of the youngest Romanovs: Alexei, then 13, and Anastasia, 17. "The bones we have show completed growth, which indicates more mature individuals," observes team leader William Maples, curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Did Alexei and Anastasia escape alive, as legend has it? Not likely. Their bodies were probably cremated, say the scientists. Anthropologist Maples recommends "a good archaeological survey outside Yekaterinburg to find the fire pit. Then we can put an end to the romantic myths and close the case...
...Senate debate on the Carnes nomination this week promises to be the most contentious vote on a lower-court candidate in years. Despite the tough-sell symbolism of replacing Johnson, a civil rights legend, with a nominee best known for hustling inmates to the electric chair, Carnes appeared to be on a smooth course to confirmation before the question of racism in the justice system was illuminated by the fires of Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. Meanwhile, the Democratic dream of recapturing the White House moved from fond hope to real prospect. After 12 years in which...
...television not more fully realizing its humanizing potential? Is the creative community at fault? Partially. But not primarily. I have lived and worked in that community for 32 years, as both priest and producer. As a group, these people are not the sex-crazed egomaniacs of popular legend. Most of them love their spouses, dote on their children and hunger after God. They have values. In fact, in Hollywood in recent months, audience enrichment has become the in thing. ABC, CBS and NBC have all held workshops on it for their programming executives. A coalition of media companies has endowed...
...David Lynch circus is back. While Mark Frost is happy to leave the town he helped make a prime-time legend, his ex-partner is still living there, with all the warped ingenuousness of a rural kid who tells his friends, "Let's put the freak show on right here! Again!" TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME, Lynch's way-too-late prequel to the 1990 TV series, relates the last days of teen queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). After an agonizing first half-hour designed to empty the theater, Lynch unleashes his patented perfervid style, puts the familiar dwarfs...