Word: longet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Office of the Arts announces that among its selections for "Learning From" performers will be Claudine Longet, Johnny Rotten, Neil Diamond, John Davidson, and Guy Lombardo's brother...
Most of the questions dealt with his work on Saturday Night. They ranged from a question about friction among the actors of Saturday Night to whether Chase thought the Claudine Longet Ski Tournament segment was tasteless...
Chase called the ski tournament "one of the funniest things ever done on television, although legally it wasn't proper." The segment showed a ski tournament in which Longet, who was convicted of manslaughter in the killing of skier Spider Sabich, is supposedly shooting skiers as they race down a mountain...
...trial was followed by a quick sentencing-and Claudine Longet, convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the gunshot death of her lover, Ski Champ Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, was condemned to 30 days in the county jail. Although Longet pleaded with Judge George E. Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate...
After just 3½ hours, the jury supplied the answer: guilty, but of criminally negligent homicide, a lesser offense than reckless manslaughter. Maximum possible sentence: two years in jail and a $5,000 fine. Her lawyers immediately began considering an appeal, and Longet proclaimed defiantly: "I have too much respect and love for living things to be guilty of this crime...