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...York stage just now--in a 35-min. monologue, the first of three short plays by filmmaker Neil LaBute titled Bash--she plays a woman who confesses to a horrific crime, yet by the end you want to give her a sympathetic hug. Sitting at a starkly lit table, apparently in a police station, Calista Flockhart doesn't take long to shed her Ally affectations. Talking in a flat Midwestern twang, she recounts with grueling matter-of-factness how she was seduced by a teacher at age 13, had a baby, was abandoned by him and took revenge by...well...
...payment of anywhere from $1 million on up in exchange for agreeing not to file a civil suit. But even if Combs' legal problems are disposed of, there will be lingering questions: Why would one of hip-hop's smartest executives attack a rival and risk jail? What lit his fuse...
Talk about taking the money and running. When firefighters showed up at Martin Frankel?s maximum-security Connecticut mansion on May 5, they found a blazing file cabinet and two fireplaces stuffed with burning documents ?- and no Frankel. The unlicensed broker had lit out of town with anywhere from $218 million to $915 million in his clients? money, most of it from small insurance firms from Oklahoma to Arkansas. Short-Term Capital Management? Try insurance fraud ?- and now the New York Daily News reports that six weeks later, authorities have finally come to the same conclusion and issued a warrant...
...most lopsided 78-day war in history finally came, the champagne was for the losers. In Belgrade last Wednesday night, thousands of young Serbs unburdened themselves in the city's Republic Square, dangling out the windows of their cars, blaring the horns and chanting "Serbia! Serbia!" They lit red magnesium flares and launched fireworks into the night sky. "I feel great," said Olivera Todorovic, 22. "It's a wonderful feeling to live again in peace...
Coming on the eve of the final Lilith Fair, the all-female concert tour that Sarah McLachlan brought to life two summers ago, her Mirrorball (Arista) marks one of the most exciting and fruitful periods for female singer-songwriters since Laura Nyro and Carole King lit up concert halls in the late '60s and early '70s. Much of the excitement has hovered around Lilith itself, which boosted once underrated talents like Lucinda Williams and Shawn Colvin. But the soul of the new female pop machine is surely McLachlan, whose tunes have gained the kind of prom-night, dorm-room...