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Before he died of AIDS in 1994, Marlin Riggs had amassed an impressive collection of films to his credit: "Ethnic Notions," "Color Adjustments" and the highly acclaimed but controversial "Tongues United." Riggs covered a range of topics concerning the black experience, from racism to black male homosexuality...
...nonetheless been ruminating about how to address the issue of his age and health; three months ago, they decided it should be addressed early and candidly, both to pre-empt his critics and to ensure that any future health alarms don't prompt suspicions of a cover-up. Says Marlin Fitzwater, White House press secretary at the time George Bush collapsed at a state dinner in Tokyo: "You want to deal with those problems well before you throw up on the Japanese Prime Minister...
...what happens. Well, the fans stayed away--only so many of us remember Butch Metzger, a pitcher who resurfaced 17 years after his last major league appearance. And the baseball was pretty drab, with too many groundouts and too few extra-base hits. "Major leaguers have multiple tools," said Marlin pitcher-stockbroker Steve Fireovid. "Most of us have a tool." Tiger manager Sparky Anderson refused to watch it, and the Baltimore Orioles refused to play it, in part to preserve Cal Ripken's 2,009-game playing streak. But even people like Oakland A's manager Tony LaRussa were impressed...
...turns out that Hillary built the house in 1981 with a $30,000 loan from the tiny Bank of Kingston, which was controlled by McDougal and Steve Smith, a former top aide to Governor Clinton. (Another shareholder was Jim Guy Tucker, who has succeeded Clinton as Arkansas Governor.) Marlin Jackson, who was then Arkansas banking commissioner, has told TIME that the loan violated state regulations because the home and borrower's residence were outside the area in which the bank was permitted to lend...
When instant gratification becomes a supreme virtue, pop culture follows. Siegfried and Roy, the ur-Vegas magicians (imagine, if you dare, a hybrid of Liberace, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Copperfield and Marlin Perkins) who perform 480 shows a year in their own theater at the Mirage, don't seem satisfied unless every trick is a show-stopper and every moment has the feel of a finale. In front of the new Treasure Island is a Caribbean-cum- Mediterranean faux village fronting a 65-ft.-deep "lagoon" in which a full-scale British man-of-war and pirate vessel every 90 minutes...