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Boston University officials fired a salvo Monday in the school's battle with Coretta Scott King over ownership of 83,000 of the late Martin Luther King's personal papers, claiming that the suit lacked a legal basis...
...King estate wins its suit, the documents will most likely be housed at the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Action in Atlanta, Pierce said...
Actors seem to agree. Julius Caesar is in rehearsal with Al Pacino and Martin Sheen, each working for $400 a week. Papp is lining up Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline for Much Ado About Nothing, perhaps at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where he regularly mounts a summer season. And A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose opening last week officially launched the series, features F. Murray Abraham (Oscar winner for Amadeus), Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime, Ordinary People) and Carl Lumbly (TV's Cagney and Lacey...
...Sports Commentator and Oddsmaker Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder, 70, who makes his living in front of television cameras, likes to talk. Last week he should have refrained. In a Washington restaurant, when a television interviewer asked for a Martin Luther King holiday report on black progress, the gravel-voiced Snyder gushed, "The black ((athletic)) talent is beautiful." Then he elaborated: "The black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way . . . because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back." He went on: "This goes back...
...charged last week, Bloom used the $10 million to support a lavish life-style. He bought about $5 million worth of paintings, an $830,000 Manhattan condominium and a $2 million vacation house in posh East Hampton, Long Island. Bloom, who also owned a Mercedes-Benz and an Aston Martin convertible, went skiing in St. Moritz, paid up to $500 for a bottle of wine and bought a $195,000 diamond-and-platinum necklace that he said he intended to give to "the woman I marry." Says a former girlfriend: "David Bloom was obsessed with possessions...