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Police found Tammy Dee Acker's body, stabbed 11 times by robbers, in her father's home in Fleming-Neon, Kentucky. The ghastly murder features prominently in the book A Dark and Bloody Ground, but the literary content wasn't questioned in the lawsuit filed by Tammy's sister, Tawny Acker Hogg. It was the cover, which includes a portrait of Tammy -- without her family's permission. The photo appears with a glossy splotch of red superimposed over her face. "This is pure commercial exploitation designed to sell a product with Acker's photograph," said Joe F. Childers, Hogg...
...prairie fire from country honky-tonks into yuppie nightspots across America: country- line dancing. A descendant of the conga line and the Harlem Hustle, line dancing lets any number join in on a series of dips, kicks and turns, under names like Walkin' Wazi, Boot Scootin' Boogie, Tush Push, Neon Moon and Honky- Tonk Stomp...
Thirty-eight years after opening on Las Vegas' neon-lit Strip, the famed Dunes Hotel has closed for good. The Dunes casino helped nurture Las Vegas' popularity -- and notoriety as a magnet for sharp-dressed mobsters. Its arching marquee became a relic in an age of larger resorts. Owner Steven Wynn plans to raze it and erect a new $400 million casino and family park...
Akira demands a certain tolerance for the more hyperbolic aspects of pulp storytelling, but it always repays, never tries your patience. The movie is a visual dazzler. Tokyo is imagined down to the last noodle shop and intersection, a place of deep night and lurid neon that looks like Blade Runner on spoiled mushrooms. It's no wonder that Akira, first released in Tokyo in 1988, is still playing the midnight-movie circuit in U.S. theaters. So far, it's not available on videotape either, which is fair enough. Laser disc -- with its superior sound and resolution -- can put Akira...
Although the cameras were probably not drawn bythe free alcohol, the MTV ball--decorated withblack drapes and large blue neon stars--garneredthe most air time on CNN and the other networks...